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A ransomware attack impacting five hospitals in southwestern Ontario, Canada, has seen hackers gain access to a database containing 5.6 million patient visits, and the social insurance numbers of over 1400 employees.
Read more in my article on the H… Continue reading Cancer treatments cancelled after Canadian hospitals hit by ransomware attack
Google has added a new real-time app scanning capability to Google Play Protect in order to help it better protect against malicious apps installed from outside the official app store.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Google hopes to better fight malicious apps with real-time scanning on Android devices
Workers wonder if their colleagues are actually AI, and we take a deeper look into the curious scams going on via Booking.com.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham C… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #346: How hackers are breaching Booking.com, and the untrustworthy reviews
The personal information of more than 815 million people in India has reportedly been leaked online.
According to local media reports, hackers have offered for sale the personally identifiable information (PII) – including that found on Aadhaar iden… Continue reading India’s biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people’s personal information
South Korea and the United States’s FBI are warning organisations that they might have inadvertently recruited a North Korean spy to work in their IT department. Continue reading Have you accidentally hired a North Korean IT worker who’s spying on your company?
A Vietnamese cybercrime gang is being blamed for a malware campaign that has seen bogus adverts posted on LinkedIn, pretending to be related to jobs at computer memory and gaming accessories firm Corsair.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire Stat… Continue reading Phony Corsair job vacancy targets LinkedIn users with DarkGate malware
It’s all too easy sometimes to imagine that a cyber attack is confined to the digital world, and that – although disruptive – it may not have serious consequences in real life.
Maybe the attack which happened last week in New York will make you thin… Continue reading Ambulances diverted after New York hospitals hit by cyber attack
A high profile French basketball team has fallen victim to the NoEscape ransomware-as-a-service group, who claim to have stolen 32 GB of data including sensitive personal information about the club’s star players.
Read more in my article on the Hot … Continue reading ASVEL basketball club slam dunked by NoEscape ransomware gang, data stolen
Ahoy! There’s trouble in the South China Seas as Filipino organisations fail to secure their systems, we take a close look at Google IP protection, and we take a look at just how so much genetic profile data leaked out of 23andMe.
All this and much … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #345: Cyber sloppiness, and why does Google really want to hide your IP address?
Helen Mort is an award-winning poet and author.
She’s also an unwitting victim of deepfake pornography. She didn’t know until someone directed her towards sexually-explicit deepfake images on a porn site. Images which had her own face edited onto … Continue reading How it feels to be a victim of deepfake pornography