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Swiss telecoms giant Swisscom has admitted that it suffered a serious security breach in the autumn of 2017 that saw the theft of contact details of approximately 800,000 customers – most of whom were mobile subscribers.
Read more in my article on the … Continue reading Swisscom data breach exposes 800,000 customers
Swiss telecoms giant Swisscom has admitted that it suffered a serious security breach in the autumn of 2017 that saw the theft of contact details of approximately 800,000 customers – most of whom were mobile subscribers.
The post Swisscom data breach e… Continue reading Swisscom data breach exposes 800,000 customers
A Namecheap vulnerability allows strangers to make subdomains for your website, Troy Hunt examines password length, and ex-Google and Facebook employees are fighting to protect kids from social media addiction.
All this and much much more is discussed … Continue reading Smashing Security #064: So just a ‘teeny tiny’ security issue then?
Automatic updates are a great thing. Just so long as they actually automatically update.
Continue reading WordPress update stopped WordPress automatic updates from working. So update now
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which tasks itself with “helping to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online”, has published an impressive report into the progress it has made with what it calls its “Active Cyber Defence” … Continue reading One year later, the UK’s Active Cyber Defence is seeing good results
A Google vulnerability researcher has found a gaping security hole in a popular web browser extension, that could have potentially exposed your private writings on the internet.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Security hole meant Grammarly would fix your typos, but let snoopers read your every word
A Google vulnerability researcher has found a gaping security hole in a popular web browser extension, that could have potentially exposed your private writings on the internet. The Grammarly real-time spelling and grammar checker, which has over seven… Continue reading Security hole meant Grammarly would fix your typos, but let snoopers read your every word
There has been a major development in the long-running fight by British student Lauri Love to avoid extradition to the United States, where he has been accused of hacking into various government websites.
Continue reading Lauri Love won’t be extradited to the United States to face hacking charges
It’s time to call an end to what can best be called a rocky relationship.
Continue reading It’s time to say ‘Welcome to dumpsville Adobe Flash’, as new unpatched flaw exploited by criminals
Why go to all the bother of writing ransomware that demands victims pay a Bitcoin ransom? If all you want is cryptocurrency, why not use the infected computers to mine the crypto coins themselves?
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Securi… Continue reading Smominru! Half a million PCs hit by cryptomining botnet