Collaborate Disseminate
Criminals were able to dupe the Tesla’s passive entry system into giving them access, and letting them drive away.
(But only after they struggled to unplug it.)
Continue reading Watch how a Tesla Model S was stolen with just a tablet
Facebook has confirmed that its new Portal AI-powered video camera will collect data from you that could be used to target ads.
Continue reading Facebook Portal isn’t designed to be as private as you might hope
To celebrate 100 episodes of the “Smashing Security” podcast I co-host with Carole Theriault each week, we asked listeners to let us know some of their favourite moments from the show.
Continue reading Celebrating 100 episodes of the Smashing Security podcast
Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu wasn’t told he was working on Equifax’s breach notification website, but when he worked it out he used the information for his financial advantage.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Manager who worked on Equifax’s breach website sentenced for insider trading
In August 2017, Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a production development manager in Equifax’s software management team was given a project codenamed “Sparta.” Bonthu’s bosses told him that the project was for one of the company’s c… Continue reading Manager who worked on Equifax’s breach website sentenced for insider trading
A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly … Continue reading RAT author jailed for 30 months, ordered to hand over $725k worth of Bitcoin
A US court has sentenced a programmer to 30 months in a federal prison in connection with software that claimed to be a legitimate tool for Windows sysadmins to remotely manage computers, but was actually used by criminals to backdoor PCs and secretly … Continue reading RAT author jailed for 30 months, ordered to hand over $725k worth of Bitcoin
Yes, it’s the 100th edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast.
There’s a little celebration at both ends of this week’s podcast – but the meat of the sandwich is our normal look at the security stories of the last week – including an alarming IoT fail… Continue reading Smashing Security #100: One flippin’ hundred
A former high school teacher is to plead guilty to hacking into the online accounts of celebrities and stealing naked photographs and other private information.
Continue reading Naked celebrity photo hacker used to be a high school teacher
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