Prince William photos accidentally reveal RAF password

Graham Cluley
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When Prince William’s official website released a series of photographs yesterday of a day in his life as an RAF search and rescue helicopter pilot, they probably didn’t imagine that the PR initiative would end up ringing security alarm bells.

As The Guardian reports, some of the photographs had sensitive information in the background.

Making matters worse, the images had already been shared widely with the world’s press.

It only took us a few minutes this morning to find the original images on the internet…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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Graham Cluley is a veteran of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a number of security companies since the early 1990s when he wrote the first ever version of Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows. Now an independent analyst, he regularly makes media appearances and is an international public speaker on the topic of cybersecurity, hackers, and online privacy. Follow him on Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or drop him an email.

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