Collaborate Disseminate
Security researchers are warning that a botnet has been exploiting a five-year-old vulnerability to hijack home routers over the last couple of months.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Spam-spewing IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers using five-year-old flaw
One travel blogger finds you don’t have to be Kylie Jenner to be targeted by an Instagram hacker. When 40 iPhones at a hospital mysteriously die, what could be the explanation? And, surprise surprise, political parties in the USA are throwing around ha… Continue reading Smashing Security #103: An Instagram nightmare, crazy iPhone deaths, and election hack claims
Security researchers at ESET discovered that hackers managed to compromise StatCounter and change the analytics script used by hundreds of thousands of websites.
Continue reading StatCounter web analytics script poisoned to steal Bitcoins
Dutch police have revealed that they were able to spy on the communications of more than 100 suspected criminals, watching live as over a quarter of a million chat messages were exchanged.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Police crack encrypted chat service IronChat and read 258,000 messages from suspected criminals
Dutch police have revealed that they were able to spy on the communications of more than 100 suspected criminals, watching live as over a quarter of a million chat messages were exchanged. The encrypted messages were sent using IronChat, a supposedly s… Continue reading Police crack encrypted chat service IronChat and read 258,000 messages from suspected criminals
Just hours before the US mid-term elections opened, Facebook responded to a tip from law enforcement agencies and shut down 115 accounts that were behaving suspiciously, and potentially linked to a foreign entity.
Continue reading On eve of US elections, Facebook blocked 115 accounts engaged in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’
The cryptocurrency giveaway scammers are up to their tricks again on Twitter, and it seems that Twitter simply can’t keep up with them.
My advice to Twitter? Make Login Verification compulsory for verified accounts.
Continue reading Another wave of Elon Musk bitcoin scams spread by verified Twitter accounts
If you’ve stayed in one of the over 1400 hotels in 70 countries that make up the Radisson Hotel Group, you could be in for a rude awakening.
Continue reading Radisson Hotel Group reveals breach of rewards site
If you’re one of the millions of people who travels under the English Channel each year, then there’s a good chance you may have to change your password for the Eurostar website.
Continue reading Eurostar resets customers’ passwords after accounts breached
Who deserves to die in a driverless car crash? Who has been sniffing around the Girl Scouts’ email account? And just how long would it take for a geologist to visit 9,000 adult web pages?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the… Continue reading Smashing Security #102: Ethical dilemmas, Girl Scouts, and porn-loving US officials