Collaborate Disseminate
Many Twitter users have been presented with a message telling them that SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) will be removed next month.
According to Twitter, only subscribers to its premium Twitter Blue service will be able to use text message… Continue reading As Twitter forces users to remove text message 2FA, it’s in danger of decreasing security
A group calling itself “Anonymous Sudan” has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack which knocked the website of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) offline earlier this week, and left customer data exposed.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Securit… Continue reading Scandinavian Airlines website hit by cyber attack, customer details exposed
The owner of a Russian penetration-testing company has been found guilty of being part of an elaborate scheme that netted $90 million after stealing SEC earning reports.
For nearly three years, 42-year-old Vladislav Klyushin – the owner of Moscow-ba… Continue reading Russian cybersecurity firm owner convicted of $90 million SEC earning reports hack
AI-generated voices are weaponised by online trolls, how ChatGPT reflects who we are as a society, and social media is in the firing line again. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podca… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #309: Synthetic voices, ChatGPT reflections, and social skirmishes
Towards the end of last year, malicious hackers broke into the systems of Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the largest privately-owned bottler of Pepsi-Cola beverages in the USA, and installed malware.
For almost the month the malware secretly exfiltrated p… Continue reading Gulp! Pepsi hack sees personal information stolen by data-stealing malware
A ransomware attack has again put the personal information of innocent parties at risk after it was revealed that a data breach has potentially exposed the medical records of more than three million people.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Sec… Continue reading Ransomware attackers steal over 3 million patients’ medical records
A Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it suffered an attack from the Royal ransomware group.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackers
Want to sell some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or magic mushrooms?
Twitter could be the place for you. And the site isn’t going to do anything to shut down your account. Continue reading Hard drugs actively sold on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its safety policies
Perhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su’s name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed attempt to frighten people out of money. Continue reading Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermind
When Ubiquiti suffered a hack the world assumed it was just a regular security breach, but the truth was much stranger… why are police happy that criminals keep using end-to-end encrypted messaging systems… and why is the Apple Watch being accused of… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #308: Jail after VPN fail, criminal messaging apps, and wolf-crying watches