Collaborate Disseminate
The Pentagon has admitted that up to 30,000 military workers and civilian personnel have had their personal information and credit card data exposed following a security breach.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Pentagon data breach puts personal details of 30,000 staff at risk
The Pentagon has admitted that up to 30,000 military workers and civilian personnel have had their personal information and credit card data exposed following a security breach. The security breach occurred at a third-party vendor which provides travel… Continue reading Pentagon data breach puts personal details of 30,000 staff at risk
A Turkish newspaper claims that audio files of journalist’s death were recorded on his Apple Watch. Such a claim, if true, would be rather convenient for the intelligence services in Turkey – who might not want to reveal their methods.
Continue reading Did Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch record his murder at Saudi consulate? Probably not
Online criminals are planting cryptomining code on victims’ Windows computers, using the camouflage of an update to Adobe Flash Player.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Fake Adobe update really *does* update Flash (while also installing cryptominer)
Online criminals are planting cryptomining code on victims’ Windows computers, using the camouflage of an update to Adobe Flash Player.
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You can bet mischievous hackers are right now trying to crack into Kanye West’s online accounts with equally diabolical passwords.
Continue reading 000000 is Kanye West’s iPhone passcode
Passwords – everything you need to know about how to make them safer, and better secure your online accounts. In this replay of our podcast from February 2017, Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and Vanja Švajcer discuss the perennial problem of passwords… Continue reading Smashing Security #099: Passwords – A Smashing Security splinter (replay)
Getting rid of hardcoded default passwords is not enough. There is a long way to go before we can feel confident that IoT devices have become significantly safer.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading California’s ban on weak default passwords isn’t going to fix IoT security
The really big news today is not that Google is shutting down Google Plus (who cares?), but rather that Google knew months ago that user data had been exposed and kept the fact quiet.
Continue reading Google chose not to go public about bug that exposed Google Plus users’ data
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, the action role-playing video game set in Ancient Greece, had its launch on Friday disrupted by crippling distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Odyssey suffers DDoS attack at launch