Collaborate Disseminate
You may well be one of the millions of internet users who received a dangerous email offering to share a Google Docs file with you. Here is what you need to know…
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On May 4th 2000, the Love Bug virus (also known as ILOVEYOU or LoveLetter) rapidly spread around the world, clogging up email systems.
Computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault are joined on the podcast this week by special guest Jo… Continue reading Smashing Security #019: The Love Bug virus
The most critical of the patched vulnerabilities address security flaws in Android’s troubled Mediaserver component, that could be exploited by a malicious hacker to execute code remotely on targeted devices.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secu… Continue reading Critical Android security patches released – but will your phone ever see them?
We tend to trust companies like IBM to take greater care over what they ship to their customers and assume it to be uncompromised and squeaky-clean. Clearly that trust is sometimes misplaced.
Continue reading IBM has been shipping malware-infected USB sticks
A 48-year-old man allegedly managed to trick Facebook and Google into wiring him over $100 million, after impersonating a genuine Taiwanese electronics manufacturer.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading The phishing swindle that conned $100 million out of Google and Facebook
A hacker claims to have released the new series of the hit prison TV show “Orange is the New Black” onto the internet, after Netflix failed to agree to pay an undisclosed ransom.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Hacker holds Netflix to ransom over ‘Orange is the New Black’
Earlier today my wife received a message warning of a virus that supposedly “formats your mobile” by accepting a video called “Sonia disowns Rahul”.
It’s amazing what some people believe…
Continue reading Sonia disowns Rahul video virus? It’s a hoax
My reaction when I heard that Amazon had added a camera to the next generation of its Alexa-powered Echo device was a mixture of revulsion and head-shaking inevitability.
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Continue reading Amazon Echo Look: Super or Scary?
A battle between two rival families of malware is being blamed for the downtime that a Californian ISP suffered earlier this month.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading ISP brought down by warring malware families
A battle between two rival families of malware is being blamed for the downtime that a Californian ISP suffered earlier this month.
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