Author Archives: Graham Cluley

China accused of sabotaging thousands of servers at major US companies with tiny microchips hidden on motherboards

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An extraordinary report released by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which claims that China has been exploiting the supply-chain, planting a tiny microchip on servers which ended up in the server rooms of almost 30 companies, including the likes of Apple and A… Continue reading China accused of sabotaging thousands of servers at major US companies with tiny microchips hidden on motherboards→

Smashing Security #098: A Facebook omnishambles

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Millions of Facebook user accounts put at risk after hack! The UK Conservative party’s conference app causes a privacy omnishambles! And Facebook (again) has been doing something naughty with the phone numbers you give it for security reasons! Oh, and … Continue reading Smashing Security #098: A Facebook omnishambles→

Smashing Security #098: A Facebook omnishambles

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Millions of Facebook user accounts put at risk after hack! The UK Conservative party’s conference app causes a privacy omnishambles! And Facebook (again) has been doing something naughty with the phone numbers you give it for security reasons! Oh, and … Continue reading Smashing Security #098: A Facebook omnishambles→

Even with the latest iOS 12 update, your iPhone’s lockscreen is unsafe

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Once again, a way of bypassing the iPhone’s passcode lock to expose users’ photos and contacts has been discovered. Jose Rodriguez, who has uncovered vulnerabilities in iOS’s lock screen security on a number of occasions in the past, … Continue reading Even with the latest iOS 12 update, your iPhone’s lockscreen is unsafe→

Zuckerberg’s Facebook page? I’ll livestream its deletion, says hacker

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A Taiwanese bug hunter says that he will livestream his attempt to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page this weekend. Chang Chi-yuan is something of a minor celebrity in Taiwan, having regularly publicised security holes in online services, and… Continue reading Zuckerberg’s Facebook page? I’ll livestream its deletion, says hacker→

Australian teen who hacked into Apple and stole 90 GB of files avoids jail

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An Australian teenager who hacked into Apple’s network on multiple occasions over several months and stole sensitive files has been told that he will not be imprisoned.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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