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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper found himself making headlines last week when his Twitter account appeared to have said something apparently designed to bruise the US president’s ego.
Continue reading So it wasn’t Anderson Cooper who called Donald Trump a pathetic loser on Twitter after all…
North Korea was determined to be the culprit after studying “classified, sensitive information” which “can’t be shared unfortunately”, says Department of Homeland Security.
Continue reading USA blames North Korea for WannaCry ransomware outbreak
To misquote Oscar Wilde, to have your Bitcoin exchange hacked once may be regarded as misfortune; to have it happen twice looks like carelessness.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Bitcoin exchange shuts down after being hacked twice in one year
A South Korean Bitcoin exchange has collapsed after suffering its second hack in less than a year. As The Telegraph reports, YouBit has announced that it suffered a hack at 04:35am local time today, which saw criminals steal 17% of its total assets. As… Continue reading Bitcoin exchange shuts down after being hacked twice in one year
A hardware wallet helped me overcome my Fear Of Joining In when it came to Bitcoin investing.
Continue reading Bitcoin FOMO or FOJI?
A US judge has sentenced a Nigerian man to three years and five months in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to taking part in a business email compromise scam that targeted organisations around the world.
Read more in my article on the We Live S… Continue reading Business Email Compromise scammer sentenced to 41 months in prison
Given the nature of Fox-IT’s work there are likely to be some interesting theories as to who might have been behind this particular attack, and what they were attempting to spy upon.
Continue reading Fox-IT reveals hackers hijacked its DNS records, spied on clients’ files
The Mirai botnet launched an attack on the internet, the scale of which had never been seen before.
And now some of its perpetrators have admitted their criminal involvement.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading The Mirai botnet: three men plead guilty after weaponizing the Internet of Things
How to protect yourself from Bitcoin hackers, why you should think twice before giving Amazon the keys to your house, and how a private investigator tried to hack Donald Trump’s tax returns.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest editio… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #057: Mikko – live from the sauna – talks Bitcoin security
A 31-year-old Vietnamese man has been jailed for a hacking attack that compromised the computer network of Perth International Airport, and reportedly resulted in the theft of building plans and sensitive security protocols.
Read more in my article on … Continue reading Australian airport hack was ‘a near miss’ says government’s cybersecurity expert