Careless IT security worker exploited ransomware attack against his employer, but failed to cover his tracks

Bad enough for your company to be held to ransom after a cyber attack.

Worse still to then have one of your own employees exploit the attack in an attempt to steal the ransom for themselves.

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Smashing Security podcast #323: Botched Bitcoin blackmail, iSpoof, and Meta’s billion dollar data bungle

13 years jail for spoofing scammer, a rogue IT security expert’s Bitcoin blackmail goes wrong, and Facebook’s eyewatering GDPR fine may be only the beginning of its problems.

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83C0000B: The error code that means a dodgy software update bricked your HP printer

Since earlier this month some owners of HP OfficeJet printers have been reporting that they are faced with a blue screen error message, and a bricked device.

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