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The tricky-to-pronounce Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan is jailed for hacking Paris Hilton, we hear the story of the man who hacked the lottery and almost got away with $16.5 million, and Facebook thinks it is the perfect partner to find you a date.
Find out in t… Continue reading Smashing Security #077: Why Paris Hilton doesn’t use iCloud, lottery hacking, and Facebook dating
So-called “Trump Whisperer” Hope Hicks claims that she has fallen victim to email hackers, and so cannot provide emails requested by the House Intelligence Committee.
The post Hope Hicks hacked appeared first on Graham Cluley.
Continue reading Hope Hicks hacked
Security veteran John McAfee says that his Twitter account was hacked, and that’s why he’s turned OFF two-factor authentication.
Continue reading My Twitter was hacked, claims John McAfee
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper found himself making headlines last week when his Twitter account appeared to have said something apparently designed to bruise the US president’s ego.
Continue reading So it wasn’t Anderson Cooper who called Donald Trump a pathetic loser on Twitter after all…
There’s little time to celebrate our 50th episode, because there are rants to be had about MailChimp’s switch to single opt-in, Graham upsets Piers Morgan on Twitter, and the Dark Overlord hacking gang are up to some pretty horrid tricks.
All this and … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #050: MailChimp, Piers Morgan, and the Dark Overlord
It’s easy to phone up a celebrity on Instagram following security breach, facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival can’t tell the girls from the boys, and companies are spying on their workers’ activities.
All this and more is discussed in the lates… Continue reading Smashing Security #41: Hacking Instagram, facial failures, and spying bosses
Are public figures lying about being hacked? What were online criminals doing with 711 million email addresses? And how could scammers profit from Hurricane Harvey?
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast… Continue reading Smashing Security #040: The show that cost Troy Hunt 14 dollars
Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway is just the latest in a long line of celebrities who have found their intimate snaps exposed online by hackers.
Continue reading Nude photos of Anne Hathaway leaked online by hackers
It doesn’t matter if you’re a regular computer user or a notoriously short-fused celebrity chef, we all need to harden the defences of our email accounts.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading What the hacking of Gordon Ramsay’s email teaches us all
Two-step verification makes it much harder for hackers to break their way into email accounts.
Continue reading Game of Thrones actress reveals cast forced to embrace two-step verification, and so should you