Collaborate Disseminate
Thousands of Eir customers have been put at risk after an unencrypted staff member’s laptop was stolen.
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Phishing isn’t a new problem, but that fact alone doesn’t mean that it’s an easy one for companies to protect against.
The post Google Warns Businesses of Government-backed Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Academic researchers claim that hackers could exploit high wattage IoT appliances such as air conditioners, heaters, and cookers, to perform attacks on the power grid.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading MadIoT: How an IoT botnet could launch a major attack on the power grid
The number of hacking prosecutions has fallen again, but that’s no cause for celebration.
PC Plod can’t catch criminals if they don’t have the resources.
Continue reading Cybercrime isn’t going away, but hacking prosecutions are falling
Researchers report that online criminals are spamming out ransomware to potential victims in South Korea disguised as.… .EGGs.
Continue reading Rotten EGGs spread ransomware in South Korea
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Superprof, which claims to be “the world’s largest tutoring network”, has made its newest members’ passwords utterly predictable… leaving them wide open to hackers.
Continue reading SuperProf private tutor site massively fails password test, makes accounts super easy to hack
An Australian teenager has admitted hacking into Apple’s internal network and stealing 90 GB worth of files. The 16-year-old has pleaded guilty to breaking into Apple’s systems on multiple occasions over the course of a year, from his parent’s home in… Continue reading Apple hacked by 16-year-old who “dreamed” of working for firm
An Australian teenager has admitted hacking into Apple’s internal network and stealing 90 GB worth of files. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has pleaded guilty to breaking into Apple’s systems on multiple occasions o… Continue reading Apple hacked by 16-year-old who “dreamed” of working for firm
Hackers planted malware on an automated teller machine (ATM) server belonging to an Indian bank as part of a criminal scheme which saw the theft of nearly 944 million rupees (US $13.5 million) in a co-ordinated attack across 28 countries last weekend.
… Continue reading Hackers steal $13.5 million from Indian bank in global attack