Bungling Optus scammer was no criminal mastermindPerhaps the biggest punishment of all will be Dennis Su's name being forever associated with an extraordinarily inept and cack-handed...
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Hard drugs actively sold on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its safety policies
Hard drugs actively sold on Twitter in plain sight. Twitter says it doesn’t breach its safety policiesWant to sell some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or...
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Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackers
Dallas Central Appraisal District paid $170,000 to ransomware attackersA Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it suffered an attack from the...
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Ransomware attackers steal over 3 million patients’ medical records
Ransomware attackers steal over 3 million patients’ medical recordsA ransomware attack has again put the personal information of innocent parties at risk after it was revealed...
Gulp! Pepsi hack sees personal information stolen by data-stealing malware
Gulp! Pepsi hack sees personal information stolen by data-stealing malwareTowards the end of last year, malicious hackers broke into the systems of Pepsi Bottling Ventures, the...
Smashing Security podcast #309: Synthetic voices, ChatGPT reflections, and social skirmishes
Smashing Security podcast #309: Synthetic voices, ChatGPT reflections, and social skirmishesAI-generated voices are weaponised by online trolls, how ChatGPT reflects who we are as a society,...
Russian cybersecurity firm owner convicted of $90 million SEC earning reports hack
Russian cybersecurity firm owner convicted of $90 million SEC earning reports hackThe owner of a Russian penetration-testing company has been found guilty of being part of...
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Scandinavian Airlines website hit by cyber attack, customer details exposed
Scandinavian Airlines website hit by cyber attack, customer details exposedA group calling itself "Anonymous Sudan" has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack which knocked the website...
Take a tour of the Edgescan Cybersecurity Platform
Take a tour of the Edgescan Cybersecurity PlatformGraham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Edgescan. Thanks to the great team there...
As Twitter forces users to remove text message 2FA, it’s in danger of decreasing security
As Twitter forces users to remove text message 2FA, it’s in danger of decreasing securityMany Twitter users have been presented with a message telling them that...
HardBit ransomware tells corporate victims to share their cyber insurance details
HardBit ransomware tells corporate victims to share their cyber insurance detailsA ransomware outfit is advising its victims to secretly tell them how much insurance they have,...
Hackers blamed after Russian radio stations play warnings of missile strikes and air raids
Hackers blamed after Russian radio stations play warnings of missile strikes and air raidsRussian media has blamed hackers after commercial radio stations in the country broadcast...
Smashing Security podcast #310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbots
Smashing Security podcast #310: Verified blue ticks and horny AI chatbotsBoyfriends who are bots, Facebook’s checkmark charge, Twitter Blue, and Will Ferrell’s taunt of football fans…...
Food giant Dole hit by ransomware, halts North American production temporarily
Food giant Dole hit by ransomware, halts North American production temporarilyEarlier this month a cyber attack on food produce giant Dole caused the firm to shut...
Fake ChatGPT apps spread Windows and Android malware
Fake ChatGPT apps spread Windows and Android malwareMalicious hackers are taking advantage of people searching the internet for free access to ChatGPT in order to direct...
That ticking noise is your end users’ laptops
That ticking noise is your end users’ laptopsGraham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there...
The cloud’s worst kept secret? Vulnerabilities
The cloud’s worst kept secret? VulnerabilitiesGraham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their...
“Ethical hacker” amongst those arrested in Dutch ransomware investigation
“Ethical hacker” amongst those arrested in Dutch ransomware investigationThree men have been arrested by Dutch police in connection with ransomware attacks that blackmailed thousands of companies....
ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets
ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate SecretsInteresting: According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances”...
Defending against AI Lobbyists
Defending against AI LobbyistsWhen is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The...
Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid Proteins
Friday Squid Blogging: Thermal Batteries from Squid ProteinsResearchers are making thermal batteries from “a synthetic material that’s derived from squid ring teeth protein.” As usual, you...
Fines as a Security System
Fines as a Security SystemTile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make...
The Insecurity of Photo Cropping
The Insecurity of Photo CroppingThe Intercept has a long article on the insecurity of photo cropping: One of the hazards lies in the fact that, for...
A Device to Turn Traffic Lights Green
A Device to Turn Traffic Lights GreenHere’s a story about a hacker who reprogrammed a device called “Flipper Zero” to mimic Opticom transmitters—to turn traffic lights...
Cyberwar Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Cyberwar Lessons from the War in UkraineThe Aspen Institute has published a good analysis of the successes, failures, and absences of cyberattacks as part of the...
Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning ModelsThis is really interesting research from a few months ago: Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to...
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Processing Facility
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Processing FacilityThis video of a modern large squid processing ship is a bit gory, but also interesting. As usual, you can also...
Banning TikTok
Banning TikTokCongress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a...
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McAfee 2023 Consumer Mobile Threat Report
McAfee 2023 Consumer Mobile Threat Report Smartphones put the proverbial world in the palm of your hand—you pay with it, play with it, keep in touch...
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Microsoft fixes bug offering Windows 11 upgrades to unsupported PCs
Microsoft fixes bug offering Windows 11 upgrades to unsupported PCsMicrosoft has addressed a known issue behind unsupported computers being offered Windows 11 22H2 upgrades and being...