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British teenager George Duke-Cohan has been jailed for three years for making hoax bomb threats that closed hundreds of schools up and down the UK.
Continue reading Three years in jail for teenager who spammed out school bomb threats
Computer users are being reminded once again to take care over the browser extensions they install after security experts discovered a hacking campaign that has been targeting academic institutions since at least May 2018.
Read more in my article on th… Continue reading Malicious Chrome extension which sloppily spied on academics believed to originate from North Korea
Computer users are being reminded once again to take care over the browser extensions they install after security experts discovered a hacking campaign that has been targeting academic institutions since at least May 2018.
The post Malicious Chrome ext… Continue reading Malicious Chrome extension which sloppily spied on academics believed to originate from North Korea
Fitness apps exploit TouchID through a sneaky user interface trick, tech giants claim to have a plan to banish passwords, and you won’t believe who was behind a sextortion scam that targeted over 400 members of the US military.
All this and much much m… Continue reading Smashing Security #107: Sextorting the US army, and a Touch ID scam
Approximately 100 million Quora users may have had their information accessed by hackers.
Continue reading Quora hack leaves details of 100 million accounts exposed
Two iOS fitness apps have been found exploiting a sneaky user interface trick to fool users into making unwanted in-app purchases with Touch ID.
Continue reading Fitness-tracking apps caught misusing Touch ID to steal money from iPhone users
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There’s bad news if you’re one of the 500 million hotel guests whose data was included on the Starwood guest reservation database.
Continue reading Marriott warns of hack. 500 million Starwood hotel guests’ personal data could be exposed.
Authorities in the United States have charged two people in connection with a series of notorious ransomware attacks.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading US charges Iranian hackers for SamSam ransomware attacks
Dell has revealed that earlier this month it discovered that hackers had breached its security and were attempting to access customer details – including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
Continue reading Dell suffers security breach, reset customer passwords (but didn’t tell customers why until now)