Collaborate Disseminate
Just before Christmas, hackers managed to break into a database belonging to a popular online game and steal the details of over seven million players. BlankMediaGames, makers of the browser-based game “Town of Salem”, has sent an email to … Continue reading Town of Salem hack exposes details of 7.6 million gamers
The private communications, emails, contact details, mobile phone numbers, memos, and financial information of hundreds of politicians have been published online.
Continue reading German politicians suffer massive hack of personal details and private communications
TheHackerGiraffe, the hacker who breached innocent users’ unsecured printers, Google Chromecast streaming devices, and smart TVs to promote the PewDiePie YouTube channel, has announced his retirement.
Continue reading TheHackerGiraffe says he’s retired from hacking smart TVs to promote PewDiePie
The website of Luas, the tram system operating in Ireland’s capital city of Dublin, has been taken offline this morning after hackers defaced the site and demanded a ransom be paid within five days.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Secu… Continue reading Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tram system, after Luas website defaced
The website of Luas, the tram system operating in Ireland’s capital city of Dublin, has been taken offline this morning after hackers defaced the site and demanded a ransom be paid within five days.
The post Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tr… Continue reading Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tram system, after Luas website defaced
Just before Christmas I was fortunate enough to be invited onto the “Random but Memorable” podcast, hosted by Matt Davey and Michael Fey of 1Password.
Take a listen.
Continue reading Appearing on the ‘Random but Memorable’ podcast
Here’s something a bit different (and utterly unrelated to computer security).
Continue reading Graham Cluley’s Desert Planet Picks
The “white hat” hacker, who claimed to be part of a group calling itself the “Anonymous Calgary Mindhive”, said it hadn’t been hard for him to hijack control of Gregg’s Nest security camera.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Box blog.
… Continue reading Spooked by a speaking security camera? Polite hacker tells owner how to fix his IoT security
Join us for our special Christmas episode as we tell tales of printer hacking, website defacement, Grinches, and how Google is snooping on your private YouTube videos.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smas… Continue reading Smashing Security #109: Grinches target Amazon and Reddit, stealing Christmas from the poor
At the end of last week Facebook revealed that an API bug had given developers of third-party apps access to the photos of millions of users.
But Facebook didn’t find out about the problem last week. It found out about it in September.
Continue reading Facebook waited months before admitting privacy bug exposed millions of users’ unposted photos