Collaborate Disseminate
On Tuesday 11 April, I’ll be joined by the CISOs of security firms Wiz, Rubrik, Noname, and Abnormal, for a friendly chat about how they protect their organisations from the huge number of threats targeting them.
I hope to see some of you there! Continue reading A fireside chat with four CISOs about how they secure their cybersecurity firms from attack
Hacker can remotely open or close garage doors, seize control of alarms, and switch on (or switch off) customers’ “smart” plugs due to vulnerabilities in Nexx products. Continue reading Own a Nexx “smart” alarm or garage door opener? Get rid of it
An Elon Musk-worshipping college principal gets schooled, and rapper Afroman turns the tables after armed police raid his house.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security vetera… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #316: Of Musk and Afroman
My guess is that if you stumbled across a website that called itself “Hack the Pentagon” and was decorated with a grisly-looking skull, you would probably think that you might be somewhere less than legitimate.
After all, normally if you hacked The … Continue reading Hack the Pentagon website promotes the benefits of bug bounties to US Military
Malware, disguised as copies of Tor, has stolen approximately US $400,000 worth of cryptocurrency from almost 16,000 users worldwide. Continue reading Clipboard-injecting malware disguises itself as Tor browser, steals cryptocurrency
31-year-old Solomon Ekunke Okpe, of Lagos, was a member of a gang that devised and executed a variety of scams – including business email compromise (BEC), romance scams, working-from-home scams, and more – between December 2011 and January 2017.
Re… Continue reading US sends million-dollar scammer to prison for four years
A cryptocurrency hack leads us down a mazze of twisty little passages, Joe Biden’s commercial spyware bill, and Utah gets tough on social media sites.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #315: Crypto hacker hijinks, government spyware, and Utah social media shocker
There’s bad news if you’re someone who is keen to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to boot a website off the internet, but don’t have the know-how to do it yourself.
Rather than hiring the help of cybercriminals to bombard a site… Continue reading UK police reveal they are running fake DDoS-for-hire sites to collect details on cybercriminals
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the 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 marke… Continue reading Can zero trust be saved?
If you were sent a USB stick anonymously through the post, would you plug it into your computer?
Perhaps you’ll think twice when you hear what happened to these Ecuadorian journalists.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Danger USB! Journalists sent exploding flash drives