Law & order
Porn-wielding Zoom bombers disrupt Twitter hack court hearing
Aug 6, 2020Uh-oh… someone didn’t lock their Zoom meeting down properly. That’s probably particularly important when the person charged is an alleged hacker.
Smashing Security podcast #189: DNA cock-up, Garmin hack, and virtual kidnappings
Jul 30, 2020Why are students faking their own kidnappings? What’s the story behind Garmin’s ransomware attack? And a genetic genealogy website suffers a hack or two. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Ray REDACTED.
UK Government chose not to investigate if Russian hackers interfered in Brexit referendum, report reveals
Jul 21, 2020No-one in Government knew if Russia had interfered in the EU vote, and they actively avoided any effort to ask questions to find out…
Mitre, the creepy company checking your fingerprints on Facebook for the US Government
Jul 20, 2020Cybercrime reporter Thomas Brewster has written a fascinating exposé of the activities of Mitre Corporation, which has taken on some eyebrow-raising projects for the US government.
Insecure IoT devices could be banned and destroyed if they fail to meet UK security standards
Jul 17, 2020IoT devices could be banned from sale and destroyed if they fail to meet basic security standards, according to proposals put forward by the UK Government. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Man who lived luxury lifestyle after hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox is found guilty
Jul 13, 2020Yevgeniy Nikulin lived the high life, funded by a life of cybercrime. Now he faces a significant prison sentence after stealing millions of user records from the likes of LinkedIn and Dropbox. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Smashing Security podcast #186: This one’s for all the Karens!
Jul 9, 2020A high-rolling Hushpuppi gets extradited to the United States, Carole details her problems with clipboards and Disposophobia, and our guest becomes the subject of fake news during the Senegalese election. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast with Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by investigative journalist Michelle Madsen.
Ex-Yahoo employee avoids jail, despite hacking 6000 accounts, and stealing nude photos and videos
Jul 6, 2020A former employee of Yahoo has been sentenced and ordered to pay a fine after exploiting his privileged access to hack into the personal accounts of thousands of Yahoo users, in his hunt for naked photographs and videos of young women. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Man sentenced, two others charged, in connection with Satori IoT botnet
Jun 26, 2020Even after being charged, Kenneth Schuchman continued to create and operate a DDoS botnet, and communicate with his co-conspirators. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
DDoSecrets thrown off Twitter after distributing 269GB BlueLeaks data dump
Jun 24, 2020The activist group Distributed Denial of Secrets, perhaps better known by their shorter but clumsy moniker DDoSecrets, has been permanently banned from Twitter. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Woman who deliberately deleted firm’s Dropbox is sentenced
Jun 19, 202058-year-old Danielle Bulley may not look like your typical cybercriminal, but the act of revenge she committed against a company had just as much impact as a conventional hacker breaking into a business’s servers and causing havoc. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Smashing Security podcast #183: MAMILs, gameshows, and a surprise from eBay
Jun 18, 2020A TV gameshow with cash prizes if you’re obeying Coronavirus lockdown rules, ex-Ebay staff charged in crazy cyberstalking case, and when the wrong cyclist was accused by the internet bearing pitchforks. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Maria Varmazis.
Smashing Security podcast #182: Space Force, credit card fraud, and beep-ti-beep
Jun 11, 2020Graham finds himself in hot water with a security firm after a data breach, Carole discusses credit card fraud, and we have a pleasant surprise for Thom Langford, who appears to have mostly agreed to be a guest to promote his own podcast. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown’s Thom Langford.
DDoS-for-hire gang escape with light community service sentence
Jun 8, 2020Two men who ran a service making it easy for anybody to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, capable of knocking websites offline, have been given a six month community service sentence by an Israeli court.
The scammer who tried to launder over $500,000 through Business Email Compromise
Jun 4, 2020A 64-year-old man has pleaded guilty in a Texan court to charges of money laundering after a series of attacks that defrauded companies, including Electrolux, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Smashing Security podcast #181: Anti-cybercrime ads, tricky tracing, and a 5G Bioshield
Jun 4, 2020Police are hoping to stop kids becoming cybercriminals by bombarding them with Google Ads, phishers rub their hands in glee at the NHS track and trace service, and just how does a nano-layer of quantum holographic catalyzer technology make a USB stick cost hundreds of pounds? All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast.