Smashing Security #088: PayPal’s Venmo app even makes your drug purchases public

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.
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Mind your company’s old Twitter accounts, rather than allowing them to be hijacked by hackers

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.
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Here’s why Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk

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.
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Here’s why Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk

There’s bad news if your name really is “Elon Musk”. You’re going 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 Sp… Continue reading Here’s why Twitter will lock your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk→

UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers

Be on your guard if your company has received an order which appears to come from a UK university email address.
That’s the advice of Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting service for fraud and financially-motivated cybercrime, after it saw a marke… Continue reading UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers→

UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers

Be on your guard if your company has received an order which appears to come from a UK university email address. That’s the advice of Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting service for fraud and financially-motivated cybercrime, after it… Continue reading UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers→

Robotics supplier’s sloppy security leaks ten years’ worth of data from major car manufacturers

Security researchers have discovered 157 gigabytes of sensitive data from over 100 manufacturing companies left exposed online for anyone to access.
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Hackers automate the laundering of money via Clash of Clans

Popular smartphone games such as “Clash of Clans” are being used to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of credit card thieves.
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