Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley More than ten years after the hack of the now-defunct Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange, the US Department of Justice says...
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Surprise! Staff don’t like receiving phishing tests from their firms that pose as salary increases – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley UK law firm Knights certainly has an interesting way of keeping its staff happy. After disappointing its staff in a...
Barracuda: Immediately rip out and replace our security hardware – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley The URL should have given away that things were serious. https://www.barracuda.com/company/legal/esg-vulnerability Barracuda Networks filed the security advisory under “Legal” And...
Malware menaces Minecraft mods – Source: www.tripwire.com
Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley If you, or your kids, are fans of Minecraft – you might be wise not to download any new mods...
Smashing Security podcast #325: Rick Astley and the little birdie scam – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Australia’s signal intelligence agency calls upon an Eighties popstar to fight terrorism, and a simple act of kindness leads to...
Now TikTok is even banned from US govt contractors’ personal smartphones – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley TikTok is making headlines again, and – as usual – it’s not for a good reason. Back in February, the...
Cl0p gang tells MOVEit hack victims to contact it before June 14, or else… – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley The Russia-linked cybercrime gang thought to be behind a hack that has impacted companies around the world has posted a...
Academics, media, and think tanks warned of North Korean hacking campaign – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley North Korean state-sponsored hackers are targeting think tanks, research centres, media organisations, and academics in the United States and South...
BBC staffers warned of payroll data breach. Other firms also affected by MOVEit vulnerability – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Staff at the BBC have been warned that their personal data may now be in the hands of cybercriminals, following...
Hate speech is driving advertisers away from Twitter – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley According to The New York Times, Twitter’s ad sales in the United Sales have plunged 59% in the past year....
Decade-old critical vulnerability in Jetpack patched on millions of WordPress websites – Source: www.tripwire.com
Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley Jetpack, an extremely popular WordPress plugin that provides a variety of functions including security features for around five million websites,...
Smashing Security podcast #324: .ZIP domains, AI lies, and did social media inflame a riot? – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley ChatGPT hallucinations cause turbulence in court, a riot in Wales may have been ignited on social media, and do you...
Hacking forum hacked, user database leaked online – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley RaidForums, the notorious hacking and data leak forum seized and shut down by the authorities back in April 2022, is...
SAS Airlines hit by $3 million ransom demand following DDoS attacks – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has received a US $3 million ransom demand following a prolonged campaign of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks...
Venezuela pays people to tweet state propaganda and deepfake videos – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley BBC News reports that the Venezuelan government is paying people to tweet in support of it, in an attempt to...
Hacked DJ’s Twitter account costs cryptocurrency investors $170,000 – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but scammers have once again succeeded in stealing...
Protect your business network with PureDome – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at PureDome. Thanks to the great team there for...
Careless IT security worker exploited ransomware attack against his employer, but failed to cover his tracks – Source: www.tripwire.com
Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley Bad enough for your company to be held to ransom after a cyber attack. Worse still to then have one...
Can zero trust be saved? – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the fab folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there...
Sorry scammer, I’m not cancelling my McAfee Antivirus subscription – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley I was surprised to receive an email this week telling me that I had renewed my annual subscription for McAfee...
Smashing Security podcast #323: Botched Bitcoin blackmail, iSpoof, and Meta’s billion dollar data bungle – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley 13 years jail for spoofing scammer, a rogue IT security expert’s Bitcoin blackmail goes wrong, and Facebook’s eyewatering GDPR fine...
83C0000B: The error code that means a dodgy software update bricked your HP printer – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley Since earlier this month some owners of HP OfficeJet printers have been reporting that they are faced with a blue...
Suzuki motorcycle plant shut down by cyber attack – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley The Indian manufacturing plant responsible for manufacturing Suzuki motorcycles has been forced to shut down following a cyber attack. Since...
M&S and Diageo pension schemes exposed in Capita hack – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley If you have a pension scheme with Marks and Spencer or Diageo your personal details may have fallen into the...
Take action now to avoid BianLian ransomware attacks, US Government warns organisations – Source: www.tripwire.com
Source: www.tripwire.com – Author: Graham Cluley The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, and others have issued a joint alert, advising organisations of the...
Smashing Security podcast #322: When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Personal information is going for a song, and the banks want social media sites to pay when their users get...
Is this the answer to Google Drive spam? – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Last week I received an unsolicited email from someone called Emma. She works for a “language learning app”, and said...
Google is going to delete your data forever, if you haven’t logged into your account for two years – Source: www.bitdefender.com
Source: www.bitdefender.com – Author: Graham Cluley A new blog post by Google describes their new policy on dealing with inactive accounts – and it’s an important...
Surprise! Elon Musk’s encrypted Twitter DMs feature will cost you dear – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Elon Musk may have fired many of the staff in Twitter’s Trust & Safety division after purchasing the company in...
Expel’s UK cybersecurity landscape report sheds light on the challenges facing organisations – Source: grahamcluley.com
Source: grahamcluley.com – Author: Graham Cluley Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Expel. Thanks to the great team there for...
























