Collaborate Disseminate
Company now says approximately 10 million personal records could have been accessed in security breach.
Continue reading Dixons Carphone admits hack far bigger than originally thought
Last week, the New York Times published a brief profile of privacy and security researcher Runa Sandvik.
Well known in the security community, Sandvik has been working at the New York Times since March 2016, boosting the security and privacy of journal… Continue reading New York Times profiles one of its own security experts
364 inmates in five of Idaho’s state prisons have exploited vulnerabilities in the JPay tablets they use to read email and access video games in order to boost their credit balances.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Prison inmates hacked tablets to earn $225,000 in credits
364 inmates in five of Idaho’s state prisons have exploited vulnerabilities in the JPay tablets they use to read email and access video games in order to boost their credit balances. But what is a JPay tablet? And why would you want one if you ar… Continue reading Prison inmates hacked tablets to earn $225,000 in credits
Up to 1.4 million customers of a number of UK clothing and accessories websites have had their personal information exposed following a security breach at an IT services provider that they were sharing.
Continue reading 1.4 million online fashion shoppers exposed after data breach at UK ecommerce provider
For some companies eradicating Adobe Flash Player is going to be a significant job. And it may be an even bigger challenge for very large organisations, such as the US Government.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Senator calls on US Government to start killing Flash now
For some companies eradicating Adobe Flash content is going to be a significant job. And it may be an even bigger challenge for very large organisations, such as the US Government.
The post Senator calls on US Government to start killing Adobe Flash n… Continue reading Senator calls on US Government to start killing Adobe Flash now
Websites still using HTTP are marked as “not secure” by Chrome, 85,000 Google employees haven’t been phished for a year, and if you’re buying drugs via PayPal’s Venom app you should say goodbye to privacy.
All this and much much more is discussed in th… Continue reading Smashing Security #088: PayPal’s Venmo app even makes your drug purchases public
There were only 13 episodes of the science fiction TV show “Almost Human” aired before it was pulled from the schedules in 2014.
But its Twitter account lives on, under the control of cryptocurrency giveaway scammers.
Continue reading Mind your company’s old Twitter accounts, rather than allowing them to be hijacked by hackers
There’s bad news if your name really is “Elon Musk”.
You’re going to have to jump over some additional hurdles to convince Twitter that you should be allowed to change your display name to the one you share with the boss of Tesla and SpaceX.
Read more … Continue reading Here’s why Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk