Collaborate Disseminate
MailChimp has been leaking subscribers’ email addresses. But it’s not the biggest leak ever, and certainly not the most practical to exploit at a large scale.
Continue reading MailChimp plugs a hole that could have leaked your email address
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Jail for man who launched DDoS attacks against Skype, Google, and Pokemon Go
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Jail for man who launched DDoS attacks against Skype, Google, and Pokemon Go
A British man has been sentenced to two years in jail after admitting to a series of computer crime offences, which included over 100 attempts to knock the likes of Google, Skype and Nintendo’s popular video game Pokemon Go offline. 21-year-old A… Continue reading Jail for man who launched DDoS attacks against Skype, Google, and Pokemon Go
Don’t make life easy for account hackers. Defend your online accounts with two-step verification.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Less than 10% of Gmail users have enabled two-factor authentication
Don’t make life easy for account hackers. Defend your online accounts with two-step verification.
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User interfaces and poor procedures lead to pandemonium in Hawaii, hackers are attempting to trick victims into opening cryptocurrency-related email attachments, and yet more pox-ridden apps are found in Android’s Google Play store.
All this and much m… Continue reading Smashing Security #061: Fallout over Hawaii missile false alarm
The Pentagon’s Nuclear Posture Review, which is being reviewed by the White House, proposes the option of deploying nuclear weapons in the event of an enemy launching a crippling cyber attack against key infrastructure.
Continue reading Fighting cyber attacks with nuclear weapons
Last Saturday the people of Hawaii received a terrifying alert about a ballistic missile heading its way. Thankfully, the alert turned out to have been sent in error by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.
Now evidence has come to light that some of… Continue reading Hawaii’s missile alert agency keeps its password on a Post-it note
Last Saturday the people of Hawaii received a terrifying alert about a ballistic missile heading its way. Fortunately the alert was a false alarm, caused by a worker who was supposed to send an internal test, and accidentally chose the wrong menu item…. Continue reading Hawaii’s missile alert agency keeps its password on a Post-it note