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Want to have god-like powers over a Mac? Just enter your username as root… no password required.
Continue reading Huge MacOS bug lets anyone login as root without a password: what you need to know
A security researcher found a way of deleting *any* photo on Facebook after the social network rolled out a new polling feature.
Continue reading Facebook flaw allowed unauthorised users to delete any photo
Image-hosting website Imgur discovered at the end of last week that hackers broke into its systems in 2014, and stole the account details of some 1.7 million registered users.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Imgur hackers stole 1.7 million email addresses and passwords
The FBI think they’ve identified the HBO hacker, the US military have been caught with a leaky bucket, and web tracking has just got scarier than ever.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #053: Game of Thrones, a major Amazon cloud leak, and web tracking gone crazy
You can ask forgiveness for being hacked, but many people will find it harder to forgive and forget if you deliberately concealed the truth from them.
Continue reading Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep data breach quiet
Western Union has agreed to pay more than half a billion dollars (an eye watering $586 million) to scam victims.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Scammed via Western Union? Claim your share of a $586 million refund now!
Western Union has agreed to pay more than half a billion dollars (an eye watering $586 million) to victims of scams.
The post Scammed via Western Union? You have less than 90 days to claim your share of $586 million refund appeared first on The State o… Continue reading Scammed via Western Union? You have less than 90 days to claim your share of $586 million refund
A website is taken down after a vulnerability researcher discovers a way to extract customers’ personal details.
The media, however, describe him as a “vigilante”. And the website’s owner say it’s a “false alarm.”
Continue reading Vigilante or bug hunter?
German parents are being told to destroy smartwatches they have bought for their children after the country’s telecoms regulator put a blanket ban in place to prevent sale of the devices, amid growing privacy concerns.
Read more in my article on the We… Continue reading Kids’ smartwatches banned in Germany over spying concerns
Don’t panic too much – the hack of the legacy commercial airliner was an exercise conducted by a team of security professionals.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading A Boeing 757 was hacked remotely while it sat on the runway