He hired his cousin to break in, hold the rightful domain holder at gunpoint, and force a transfer to his own GoDaddy account.
Monthly Archives: December 2019
FTC warns Christmas buyers that smart toys are a security risk
Thinking of giving a young person an internet-connected ‘smart’ toy this Christmas? You may want to think again.
Ad industry groups ask that the CCPA keep its mitts off their cookies
Ad-blocking technologies can block the cookies that record consumers’ privacy choices, they claim.
Snatch ransomware pwns security using sneaky ‘safe mode’ reboot
The Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) team has warned the industry of a dangerous new ransomware trick.
EU releases its 5G conclusions
The Council of the European Union sent a memo summarizing its thoughts on the “need to mitigate security risks linked to 5G”.
Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules
Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed
The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it’s dirt cheap.
Serious Security: Understanding how computers count
The hard disks that fail abruptly at 32,768 hours of use – why simply ‘adding 1’ can send you into oblivion.
Will the new iPhone 11 track you even if you tell it not to?
Does turning location access off for all your apps mean that location access is off altogether?
Networking attack gives hijackers VPN access
Researchers have discovered a flaw in macOS, Linux, and several other operating systems that could let attackers hijack VPN connections.