Collaborate Disseminate
Earlier this month a cyber attack on food produce giant Dole caused the firm to shut down its production plants across North America for a period of time, and halt shipments to stores.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Food giant Dole hit by ransomware, halts North American production temporarily
Boyfriends who are bots, Facebook’s checkmark charge, Twitter Blue, and Will Ferrell’s taunt of football fans…
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Ca… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbots
Russian media has blamed hackers after commercial radio stations in the country broadcast bogus warnings about air raids and missile strikes, telling listeners to head to shelters.
Continue reading Hackers blamed after Russian radio stations play warnings of missile strikes and air raids
A ransomware outfit is advising its victims to secretly tell them how much insurance they have, so their extortion demands will be met.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading HardBit ransomware tells corporate victims to share their cyber insurance details
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