Collaborate Disseminate
Join me and fellow computer security industry veterans Vanja Svajcer and Carole Theriault as we have a casual chat about whatever is on our minds.
Continue reading Smashing Security #001: ‘One cup, two hotel guests’
Ransomware authors are human. They make mistakes.
And their mistakes mean that you might be able to recover your encrypted data.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Once again, you can decrypt your CryptXXX ransomware files for free
This weekend houses and businesses in parts in the northern part of Kiev were plunged into darkness after the electricity supply was unexpectedly cut off.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender blog.
Continue reading Hackers suspected of causing power outage in Ukraine
Spammers hope that their email campaign will trick enough people to buy stocks in a games development company to make them a killing…
Continue reading Christmas pump-and-dump stock spam
The records of more than one billion Yahoo users have reportedly been sold on the computer underground.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Yahoo’s billion account database for sale on the black market
Netgear releases patches for serious vulnerability that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on affected routers.
Continue reading Netgear releases firmware updates for vulnerable routers
Online training sitey Lynda.com has suffered a security incident which saw a user database accessed by unauthorised parties.
Continue reading LinkedIn training arm Lynda.com suffers data breach
Having failed in its attempt to auction off a collection of hacking tools, implants and software exploits stolen from the NSA, the mysterious Shadow Brokers group are now offering them individually for sale on the web.
Read more in my article on the Ho… Continue reading Shadow Brokers re-emerge, with NSA’s secret exploits for sale
If you’re upset that Evernote’s proposed new privacy policy will mean staff can read your notes, you haven’t read the existing privacy policy carefully enough.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Evernote users threaten to quit over new privacy policy – but have already agreed to staff reading their notes
I’m going to be delivering a keynote, “Threats to business in 2017: Things just got serious”, at a conference being held in London on 26 January.
Tickets are free, but spaces are very limited – so apply now!
Continue reading StormCloud 2017 – See me speaking in London, January 2017