Collaborate Disseminate
On underground criminal marketplaces the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 26 million LiveJournal blogging accounts are being traded, despite LiveJournal’s owners refusing to acknowledge that any security breach has occurred. The fi… Continue reading 26 million LiveJournal users warned that their passwords have been breached
A vulnerability researcher has received a bug bounty after discovering security holes in Apple’s software that could allow malicious parties to hijack an iPhone or Mac user’s camera and spy upon them. Bug hunter Ryan Pickren is richer to th… Continue reading Hacking the iOS/macOS webcam – Apple pays out $75,000 to bug hunter
Twitter recently warned users of a Mozilla Firefox bug that grants access to accounts’ non-public information to anyone using the device. “We recently learned that the way Mozilla Firefox stores cached data may have resulted in non-public i… Continue reading Twitter reveals Mozilla Firefox bug that stores your direct messages for up to 7 days
For the past week, U.S. lawmakers have been discussing proposed stimulus checks to help the country through this coronavirus-induced economic crisis. The $2 trillion stimulus package that will offer help to American citizens affected by the Coronavirus… Continue reading BBB warns scammers are leveraging the Senate relief bill
Launched in 2012, the Whisper app declared itself to be a place where anyone could post their private thoughts and extreme confessions anonymously. In its promotional material it describes itself as “the largest online platform where people share… Continue reading Secret-sharing app Whisper failed to keep users’ fetishes and locations private
A confidential report from the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Center warns that ransomware operators are targeting at least 1,800 large organizations worldwide in industries such as construction, chemical, healthcare, food, en… Continue reading ‘Professional’ ransomware gang targets 1,800 large organizations worldwide, Dutch investigators find
It’s been almost 25 years since macro malware first reared its head, and it would be nice to think that the defences Microsoft has built into its Office suite in the years since would do a half-decent job of stemming the threat. Unfortunately, it… Continue reading Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros
Nikkei, one of the largest media companies in Japan, with an empire spanning broadcasting, digital media, magazines, and newspapers such as the Financial Times, says that its US subsidiary, Nikkei America, has been scammed out of $29 million. In a pres… Continue reading Nikkei worker tricked into transferring $29 million into scammer’s bank account
A year ago, we wrote about the discovery of treasure trove of original documentation from the development of the MOS 6502 by Jennifer Holdt-Winograd, daughter of the late Terry Holdt, the original program manager on the project. Now, Ms. Winograd has created a website to celebrate the 6502 and the …read more
Significant amounts of sensitive data about employees of the US government military personnel data could now be in the public domain following its exposure in a data leak. Israeli security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered 179 GB of data … Continue reading Sensitive US government and military travel details left exposed online