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Tag Archives: Security threats
Alleged Vault 7 leaker was busted because of basic security blunders
The FBI says that Schulte’s poor opsec was his undoing.
FBI arrests 74 in global Business Email Compromise takedown
After years of laughing in the face of victims BEC scammers have taken one on the chin.
The Google Pixelbook power button is now a 2FA token
The Pixelbook’s power button is a 2FA token, which is great, and almost nobody noticed, which isn’t.
Check your router – list of routers affected by VPNFilter just got bigger
The list of routers VPNFilter can infect now includes another 56 models from Asus, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE.
Oh the irony! When cybercriminals are rubbish at cybersecurity
The Owari DDoS botnet, built by knocking over weakly-secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has had a bad week.
Cloudflare mistakes own 1.1.1.1 DNS for DDoS attack
When is a DDoS attack not a DDoS attack? When it’s caused by your own recently-launched DNS service.
Acoustic attacks can blue-screen computers
New research has discovered hard drives can be vulnerable to sonic interference.
Despacito YouTube video hack – teenagers charged
Web defacement is supposed to be an old-fashioned type of hack, but it probably didn’t look that way to YouTube viewers on 10 April.
Your Firefox account can now be secured with 2FA
Mozilla is rolling out support for two-factor (or two-step) authentication for anyone who has a Firefox account.