Collaborate Disseminate
End-to-end encryption is really neat, but it only encrypts *between* those who are doing the communicating.
Continue reading End-to-end encryption doesn’t stop the FBI reading your messages. Just ask Paul Manafort
Not everyone is in favour of better privacy online.
The advertising industry, for instance, has its knickers in a twist so tightly about European privacy regulations that it made an over-the-top video.
Continue reading An advert against online privacy
The country of Papua New Guinea is planning a month-long nationwide ban of Facebook, PornHub wants to keep your online activities more private, and Amazon Alexa forwards a married couple’s private conversation to a random contact.
All this and much muc… Continue reading Smashing Security #080: Country bans Facebook, eavesdropping Alexa, and PornHub VPN
Security researchers have demonstrated how attackers could cause physical damage to hard drives, and cause PCs to crash, just by playing sounds through a computer’s speaker.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading An acoustic attack can blue screen your Windows computer
A hacker who lived the high life with expensive cars has been sentenced to jail for his part in a serious security breach at Yahoo.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Jail for the man who helped Russia hack Yahoo’s email accounts
Remember when Yahoo seemed to have been beset by hack after hack after hack? In September 2016, Yahoo revealed that the personal data of over 500 million users had been stolen by hackers in 2014. As if that wasn’t bad enough, three months later t… Continue reading Jail for the man who helped Russia hack Yahoo’s email accounts
There is another chance to see me speak in London next month, as I’ll be keynoting at the Cloud Security Summit on Wednesday 20th June.
Find out how to reserve your place at this event.
Continue reading See me speak at the Cloud Security Summit in London
The country of Papua New Guinea is reportedly planning a month-long national ban of Facebook.
Why? To research the effect that the addictive social network has on the South Pacific island’s populace, and to root out “fake users.”
But important question… Continue reading Papua New Guinea to ban Facebook for a month
It’s every Amazon Alexa owner’s worst nightmare – your private conversations not just being listened to, but shared with random contacts without your knowledge.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Woman says Alexa recorded and shared the private conversation she was having with her husband
At least half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries around the world have been infected by a sophisticated botnet, in preparation for an alleged planned cyber attack on Ukraine.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Se… Continue reading VPNFilter botnet has hacked 500,000 routers. Reboot and patch now!