Collaborate Disseminate
If you’re concerned that you might be getting a worse deal from Facebook than your European cousins, maybe you could find some way to make your Facebook profile look like you’re based in Europe?
Failing that, there’s always the option to delete your ac… Continue reading Why you might want to tell Facebook you now live in Europe
Yes, we should be mad at Panera Bread for its lousy response to a serious security issue.
But things turn ugly when the masses begin to blame individually-named members of the security team.
Continue reading Don’t blame Panera Bread’s security guy just because he used to work at Equifax
We’ve heard it all before. Company “takes your data security very seriously.” But this one really takes the biscuit…
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Panera Bread’s half-baked security
We’ve heard it all before. XYZ Company “takes your data security very seriously.” Most commonly you’ll hear these words just after a company has suffered an embarrassing data breach, perhaps having carelessly exposed the persona… Continue reading Panera Bread’s half-baked security
Warnings have been raised again about the security of the smartphone apps used to control IoT devices, with many found to be lacking elementary security and privacy measures.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Box blog.
Continue reading Too many IoT smartphone apps making life easy for online criminals
“Hacker-for-hire” service that launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites and phone-bombed its victims.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Lizard Squad member jailed after offering DDoS-for-hire attack service
Endangering your friends online, the fibs told by VPN vendors, developments from the world of cryptomining, and Carole shares an animated GIF with Mikko and Graham.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Securit… Continue reading Smashing Security #071: Pony-tailed pundit ponders privacy problems
Hundreds of British schools and colleges reported receiving bomb threats via email, and sent pupils home.
Continue reading Police arrest teens in connection with spammed-out school bomb threats
Firefox’s Facebook Container add-on makes it harder for Facebook to track your web activity via third-party cookies.
Continue reading Firefox users can now ‘isolate their Facebook identity’ from the rest of the web
A security researcher has publicised a flaw in the latest version of iOS that could fool iPhone users into visiting a malicious website rather than a safe one.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading How a boobytrapped QR code can trick iOS 11 into taking you to a malicious website