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Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Incogni. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Cybercrimes happen much more often than you might think and affect a growing amount of people. With crimes such as identity th… Continue reading How to remove yourself from the internet and from people search sites
A former software engineer at Ubiquiti Networks has pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of data from the firm, attempting to extort millions of dollars, and damaging the company’s reputation in the media.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Secu… Continue reading Ex-Ubiquiti worker pleads guilty to data theft, extortion, and smear plot
Vesuvius, the London Stock Exchange-listed molten metal flow engineering company, says it has shut down some of its IT systems after being hit by a cyber attack. Continue reading Hackers hit Vesuvius, UK engineering company shuts down affected systems
UK banking group TSB is calling on social networks and dating apps to better protect their users from fake profiles, following an alarming spike in romance fraud.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Romance fraud losses rose 91% during the pandemic, claims UK’s TSB bank
Could a senior Latvian politician really be responsible for scamming hundreds of “mothers-of-two” in the UK? (Probably not, despite Graham’s theories…) And should we be getting worried about the AI wonder that is ChatGPT?
All this and more is dis… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #307: ChatGPT and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Edgescan. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Edgescan simplifies Vulnerability Management (VM) by delivering a single full-stack SaaS solution integrated with world-class… Continue reading Take a tour of the Edgescan Cybersecurity Platform
Planet Ice, which operates 14 ice rinks up and down the UK, has revealed that criminal hackers managed to break into its systems and steal the personal details of over 240,000 customers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Planet Ice hacked! 240,000 skating fans’ details stolen
The Kremlin-backed Gamaredon hacking group is being blamed for an attempted phishing attack against the Latvian Ministry of Defence.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Latvia says Russian hackers tried to phish its Ministry of Defence
GoTo says that hackers stole its customers’ “encrypted backups.” But they also say the hackers stole the decryption keys.
To say the backups were encrypted is a bit like trying to argue that a locked box is locked, if the key to the locked box is st… Continue reading If a locked filing cabinet is stolen along with its key, can you still say it’s locked? GoTo thinks you can
If you’ve purchased trainers from sports fashion retailer JD Sports in the past, your personal details could now be in the hands of hackers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Hackers steal 10 million customer details from JD Sports