The hugely popular gaming site Club Penguin Rewritten suffered a data breach that exposed 4m user accounts.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Researchers hack camera in fake video attack
Tampering with surveillance cameras is a common activity for Hollywood heroes and criminals alike. Now, researchers have shown how they can do it in real life.
North Carolina county falls for BEC scam, to the tune of $1,728,083
The county could only claw back some of the $2,504,601 it paid to a scammer posing as a contractor working on building a new high school.
‘Urgent/11’ flaws affect 200 million devices – from routers to elevators
There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”.
Georgia hit with malware yet again
The Department of Public Safety says it won’t pay, but given the umpteen times the state’s agencies have been hit, somebody’s not listening.
Cyberattacks on connected cars could gridlock entire cities
It would require taking over and stranding 20% of a city’s cars to freeze traffic, and only 10% to impede ambulances, physicists calculate.
Hackers target Telegram accounts through voicemail backdoor
As politicians should know by now, secure messaging apps such as Telegram can quickly become a double-edged sword.
Post-Equifax settlement, NY updates data breach notification laws
Equifax is fined $675 million, while New York data breach notification law now covers biometrics, passwords, and more.
NAS vendors hit by brute force ransomware attacks
Cybercriminals are targeting numerous Network Attached Storage vendors with a new wave of ransomware.
Apple’s July patchfest fixes bugs in multiple products
Apple released fixes for various products this week, including one for a bug that has been public with proof-of-concept code for two months.