Collaborate Disseminate
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.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Securi… Continue reading Careless IT security worker exploited ransomware attack against his employer, but failed to cover his tracks
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the fab folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Right now, “Zero Trust” is in serious danger of becoming an empty buzzword. The problem isn’t just that m… Continue reading Can zero trust be saved?
I was surprised to receive an email this week telling me that I had renewed my annual subscription for McAfee virus protection.
Would you, or a member of your family, have fallen for this scam? Continue reading Sorry scammer, I’m not cancelling my McAfee Antivirus subscription
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.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Sma… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #323: Botched Bitcoin blackmail, iSpoof, and Meta’s billion dollar data bungle
The Indian manufacturing plant responsible for manufacturing Suzuki motorcycles has been forced to shut down following a cyber attack, with the loss of an estimated 20,000 vehicles.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Suzuki motorcycle plant shut down by cyber attack
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.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading 83C0000B: The error code that means a dodgy software update bricked your HP printer
Personal details of more than 100,000 pension holders may have been stolen by the hackers.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg… Continue reading M&S and Diageo pension schemes exposed in Capita hack
A joint alert has been issued by US government agencies, advising organisations of the steps they should take to mitigate the threat posed by BianLian ransomware attacks. Continue reading Take action now to avoid BianLian ransomware attacks, US Government warns organisations
Personal information is going for a song, and the banks want social media sites to pay when their users get scammed.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cl… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #322: When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams
There’s good news if you’re plagued by shared Google Drive files from strangers.
Google Drive is getting a spam folder. Continue reading Is this the answer to Google Drive spam?