Collaborate Disseminate
Three weeks after The Guardian newspaper was hit by a ransomware attack, it warns staff members that their personal data was accessed. Continue reading Post-ransomware attack, The Guardian warns staff their personal data was accessed
Article for ESET by me: Scammers and jobhunters. Sparked by an article in the Guardian on The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market by Snighda Poonam. Hat tip to Steve Burn for calling my attention to it. TL:DR ̵… Continue reading Scammers and jobhunters
Deloitte, one of the world’s “big four” accounting firms, has acknowledged a breach of its internal email systems, British news outlet The Guardian revealed today. Deloitte has sought to downplay the incident, saying it impacted “very few” clients. But according to a source close to the investigation, the breach dates back to at least the fall of 2016, and involves the compromise of all administrator accounts at the company as well as Deloitte’s entire internal email system. Continue reading Source: Deloitte Breach Affected All Company Email, Admin Accounts
Deloitte, one of the “big four” global accounting firms, admitted it fell victim to a cyber attack last year but downplayed the incident on Monday saying it only affected a few of its high profile clients.
Continue reading Deloitte: ‘Very Few Clients’ Impacted by Cyber Attack
A coalition of researchers and cryptographers are urging the Guardian to retract a story it published last week which suggested the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp contained a backdoor. Continue reading Coalition of Cryptographers, Researchers Urge Guardian to Retract WhatsApp Story
A coalition of researchers and cryptographers are urging the Guardian to retract a story it published last week which suggested the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp contained a backdoor. Continue reading Coalition of Cryptographers, Researchers Urge Guardian to Retract WhatsApp Story
Around 30 cryptographers, security researchers and technical experts have signed an open letter to The Guardian. Continue reading Crypto Experts Say Discussed WhatsApp Feature Is Not a Backdoor
KrebsOnSecurity received many a missive over the past 24 hours from readers who wanted to know why I’d not written about widespread media reports that Mirai — a malware strain made from hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as poorly secured routers and IP cameras — was used to knock the entire country of Liberia offline. The trouble is, as far as I can tell no such nationwide outage actually occurred. Continue reading Did the Mirai Botnet Really Take Liberia Offline?