Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts has announced that an intruder managed to gain access to some parts of the administration functions on the site. Mumsnet also suffered a DDoS attack, and Roberts and another member of Mumsnet were SWATted.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
‘Loose tweets destroy fleets’ – US Air Force warns
Keeping quiet is crucial to OPSEC: for civilians, it can help keep our digital lives secure. For military, it can save lives. 
Hacker pleads guilty in Facebook malware and spam scheme
The cybercrook allegedly used a “Facebook Spreader” malware to infect victims via booby-trapped links in Facebook chat messages.
Mozilla wants you to beta test this Firefox privacy enhancement
Mozilla announced on Friday that it’s released several new privacy enhancements in its popular Firefox browser for pre-beta testing.
IRS estimate of stolen tax records balloons to over 300,000
A wider analysis shows that attackers used the IRS’s Get Transcript app – now gone, and good riddance! – to roll around in far more records than first thought. 
Google’s Android “Admin” security hole – time to patch!
“Google Admin” is an Android security app for Super Adminstrators of the Google for Work tools. But it had a security hole…
8chan back after Google banned entire domain for child abuse imagery
Its founder says the ban was unfair, given that both 8chan and Google take down content using matching hashes after it’s posted, not before.
Jennifer Aniston’s wedding dress photos are fake
A photo of the dress has fans swooning, but the label on that designer gown should be changed to read “House of Hoax.”
Using ambient sound as a two-factor authentication system
A Swiss research project offers a new method of two-factor authentication to people who see an additional level of security as a chore.
Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web
Dark web listings say they won’t refund/replace if Uber asks for verification: a sign that Uber’s experiments with strong verification requirements are paying off.