Collaborate Disseminate
Would the fact that you have an operating system installed on your USB cufflink prove that you’re up to no good, or just a bit of a geek?
Continue reading ‘Cyber terrorist’ trades cufflinks for handcuffs
As long as there is a demand for cheap IoT devices, there will be plenty of manufacturers happy to cut corners and put the internet community at risk.
Continue reading These 60 dumb passwords can hijack over 500,000 IoT devices into the Mirai botnet
According to a report in “The Intercept”, the snooping code was implemented in such a way that it could have allowed a hacker to “basically read everyone’s Yahoo mail.”
Continue reading Spy program could have given hacker access to all Yahoo email, claims ex-employee
Oh dear. It may very well be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but a new study suggests that many of the general public have thrown in the towel and given up.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Cybersecurity is just too much trouble for the general public, claims study
The Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pump contains vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a malicious attacker to remotely trigger an insulin injection.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Our insulin pumps could be hacked, warns Johnson & Johnson
Webpages vulnerable to SQL injection and software left unpatched for 3.5 years…
ICO investigation reveals the shoddy state of security at TalkTalk.
Continue reading TalkTalk fined record £400,000 for failing to prevent hack
Signal got hit by a US government subpoena, demanding the encrypted messaging app cough up any information they had on accounts associated with two phone numbers…
And it turned into a victory for those who believe in online privacy.
Continue reading This is how little Signal knows about its privacy-loving users
Facebook has finally finished rolling out “Secret Conversations” to its billion-or-so users, making it the biggest end-to-end encrypted messaging network on the internet. But it hasn’t turned it on by default.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender… Continue reading Finally everyone can encrypt their Facebook conversations. Here’s how
Hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts had their emails scanned on behalf of US intelligence, reports Reuters.
Continue reading It’s time to close your Yahoo account
It’s just over two years since a critical Shellshock vulnerability was uncovered. But it has far from disappeared…
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Shellshock two years on – has your company forgotten about it?