Collaborate Disseminate
I’m still encountering people who, even after all these years, believe that their Apple Mac computers are somehow magically invulnerable to ever being infected by malware.
Maybe details of this new Mac malware will change their mind… Continue reading MacStealer – newly-discovered malware steals passwords and exfiltrates data from infected Macs
A Finnish court has given the former CEO of a chain of psychotherapy clinics a suspended jail sentence after failing to adequately protect highly sensitive notes of patients’ therapy sessions from falling into the hands of blackmailing hackers.
Multinational payment processing firm Nexway has been rapped across the knuckles by the US authorities, who claim that the firm knowingly processed fraudulent credit card payments on behalf of tech support scammers.
Read more in my article on the Tr… Continue reading FTC accuses payments firm of knowingly assisting tech support scammers
Graham wonders what would happen if his bouncing buttocks were captured on camera by a Tesla employee, and we take a look at canny scams connected to China’s Operation Fox Hunt.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing S… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #318: Tesla workers spy on drivers, and Operation Fox Hunt scams
The emergency ditching of an Australian military helicopter in the water just off a beach in New South Wales, has been blamed on the failure to apply a software patch.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Army helicopter crash blamed on skipped software patch
Accountants are being warned to be on their guard from hackers, as cybercriminals exploit the rush to prepare tax returns for clients before the deadline of US Tax Day.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading As Tax Day approaches, Microsoft warns accounting firms of targeted attacks
The US Department of Justice has arrested a member of the US Air Force National Guard in connection with a high profile leak of classified Pentagon documents.
Here are my thoughts… Continue reading Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira arrested at gunpoint
Everyone’s talking juice-jacking – but has anyone ever been juice-jacked? Uber suffers yet another data breach, but it hasn’t been hacked. And Carole hosts the “AI-a-go-go or a no-no?” quiz for Dave and Graham.
All this and much much more is discuss… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #317: Another Uber SNAFU, an AI chatbot quiz, and is juice-jacking genuine?
Travellers are being told to be wary when plugging their smartphones and laptops into USB chargers.
But has anyone ever actually been juice-jacked in the real world? Continue reading Plenty of juice-jacking scare stories, but precious little juice-jacking
A pro-Russian blogger who raised $25,000 for drones to assist Russian troops fighting in Ukraine, has received a huge delivery of sex toys instead.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Ukrainian hackers spend $25,000 of pro-Russian blogger’s money on sex toys