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British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been duped into sharing her personal email address with a prankster who has previously embarrassed the likes of Donald Trump Jr and various White House officials.
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Hackers are holding HBO to ransom after a massive data breach, and have leaked the phone numbers and email addresses of “Game of Thrones” cast members. Has security firm Carbon Black been leaking customers’s sensitive files while trying to scan them? A… Continue reading Smashing Security #037: Boobs, dragons and data breaches
There has been another welcome step along the road to Adobe Flash’s funeral, with the release this week of a new version of the Firefox browser.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading At last! Firefox puts another nail in Flash’s coffin
A leaked document appears to contain the personal telephone numbers and email addresses for actors such as Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey and Emilia Clarke.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Game of Thrones stars’ personal phone numbers leaked, as HBO hackers attempt to extort ransom
Struggling with passwords? The easiest thing to do is get a decent password manager.
Continue reading N3v$r M1^d password rules. Get a password manager to generate and remember your passwords instead
EirGrid, which provides electricity to homes and businesses across Ireland and Northern Ireland, reportedly suffered a security breach earlier this year at the hands of state-sponsored hackers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Attack on Ireland’s state-owned power provider blamed on state-sponsored hackers
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Social engineering is certainly not a new problem, but it’s a persistent one that continues to grow, and with seemingly no end in sight.
Social engineering preys on a natural human tendency to trust. Hackers are expert at manipulating the human factor and exploiting trust to steal valuable information. They accomplish this by convincing their victims to divulge confidential information or participate unknowingly in fraudulent transactions.
While most financial institutions have taken significant steps to combat social engineering through user education and additional controls for their customers, they still find themselves struggling to identify new attack methods and mitigate the damage.
Traditional phishing schemes are increasing in frequency and more targeted spear phishing attacks are as well. As customers migrate to additional channels, hackers are following them with threats such as voice phishing (Vishing) and SMS phishing (SMishing).
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Hit TV show “Game of Thrones” was hit by hackers at the end of last month, who claimed to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO. And now an actual episode has leaked online too.
Continue reading Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 4 leaked online
Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech, the British security researcher who was credited with stopping the hard-hitting WannaCry ransomware worm that hit the UK’s NHS hard earlier this year, has been arrested in Las Vegas.
Continue reading FBI arrests WannaCry’s ‘accidental hero’ in connection with Kronos banking trojan
Criminals hacked into a developer’s account, and modified a Chrome browser extension used by over a million people to push unwanted adverts.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Hackers hijack popular Chrome extension to inject code into web developers’ browsers