Collaborate Disseminate
We thought it was all over… but a Swiss newspaper has come out fighting, blaming Fortinet for spreading untruths about a toothbrush botnet.
Will Fortinet return for Round 4, or is this a knockout punch? Continue reading Round 3 in the toothbrush DDoS debacle!
Two US insurance companies are warning that thousands of individuals’ personal information may have been stolen after hackers compromised computer systems.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading US insurance firms sound alarm after 66,000 individuals impacted by SIM swap attack
New research shows a 704% increase in deepfake “face swap” attacks from the first to the second half of 2023.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Surge in deepfake “Face Swap” attacks puts remote identity verification at risk
After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now issued a statement. Continue reading Tooth be told: Toothbrush DDoS attack claim was lost in translation, says Fortinet
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? A company in Hong Kong suffers a sophisticated deepfake duping, be one your guard from pig butchers as Valentine’s Day approaches, and spare a moment to feel sorry for poor ransomware gangs.
All this and … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #358: Hong Kong hijinks, pig butchers, and poor ransomware gangs
No, three million smart toothbrushes didn’t launch a DDoS attack against a Swiss company. Continue reading The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads in the cybersecurity world
Data and software services firm Blackbaud’s cybersecurity was criticised as “lax” and “shoddy” by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a damning post-mortem of the business’s February 2020 data breach.
Read more in my article on the H… Continue reading FTC slams Blackbaud for “shoddy security” after hacker stole data belonging to thousands of non-profits and millions of people
China-sponsored attacks likened to “placing bombs in water treatment facilities, and power plants”.
Is it just me, or does this sound like the plot of a Mission Impossible movie? Continue reading China is hacking Wi-Fi routers for attack on US electrical grid and water supplies, FBI warns
The iPhone security setting that you should enable right now, the worrying way that AI is predicting what criminals look like, and we play a game of face fake or real…
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #357: Interview with an iPhone thief, anti-AI, and have we gone too far?
A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting his part in a series of ransomware and malware attacks that hit more than one thousand individuals, businesses, and organisations — including three police departments.
Read … Continue reading Canada’s ‘most prolific hacker’ jailed for two years