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Smashing Security podcast #187: Huawei ban, MGM hack, and a contact-tracing cock-up
Jul 16, 2020Login chaos for England’s contact tracing service, our drill-down on the Britain’s Huawei 5G ban, MGM’s blockbuster breach, and how to pronounce “Gigabyte.” All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast with Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, and special guest Maria Varmazis.
How to better protect your Roblox account from hackers with two-step verification (2SV)
Jul 3, 2020Accounts on the popular online gaming platform keep getting hacked. So, how can you better protect your Roblox account?
Suspicious wife fails to get good password advice from The Guardian
Jun 12, 2020The Guardian offers relationship advice over an unwise password choice, but fails to give any good password advice.
Nintendo warns 300,000 accounts have been hacked since early April
Jun 10, 2020Video gaming firm Nintendo has warned customers to not reuse passwords on different services after releasing an increased tally of compromised accounts since April.
Smashing Security podcast #180: Taking care of Clare
May 28, 2020On this special splinter episode of the podcast, we’re joined by actor and comedian Clare Blackwood in the hope of convincing her that cybersecurity is no laughing matter. Hear what happens in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Smashing Security podcast #177: Elon Musk, Roblox, and Love Bug author found
May 7, 2020What can X Æ A-12 Musk teach us about passwords? How did our guest finally hunt down in Manila the author of one of history’s biggest virus outbreaks? And what on earth is a hacker doing breaching Roblox security? 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 technology journalist Geoff White.
WeLeakInfo, the site which sold access to passwords stolen in data breaches, is brought down by the FBI
Jan 17, 2020Law enforcement agencies have seized control of the domain of WeLeakInfo, a website offering cheap access to billions of personal credentials stolen from approximately 10,000 data breaches.
Man who hacked National Lottery for just £5 is jailed for nine months
Jan 13, 2020Lottery operator Camelot says that responding to the hacking attack in 2016 cost it £230,000. How much did the hacker Anwar Batson make out of it? A mere £5. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change
Dec 11, 2019A new survey has revealed some alarming news about the way users are choosing their passwords in their homes and workplace.
Smashing Security podcast #155: Juice jacking, YouTube hacking, password slacking
Nov 21, 2019A bank has some of the worst password advice ever, travellers are told to be wary when USB charging their smartphones and laptops, and a gamer has his YouTube account hacked. 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 Geoff White.
Smashing Security podcast #146: Password secrets and baking brownies
Sep 19, 2019In the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast, hosted by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, Carole has suffered an injury, we journey back in time to one of our earliest episodes to discuss the perils of passwords, and Rachael Stockton from LastPass drops by for a chat.
LastPass users automatically updated to fix security vulnerability in browser extension
Sep 17, 2019Popular password manager LastPass says that it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome and Opera browser extensions that could have potentially seen an attacker steal the username and password previously filled-in by the software.
Umm.. that’s not a movies password update. That’s a downgrade
Jun 7, 2019A cinema chain has given customers a password that any mischief-maker with half a brain cell could deduce.
Google stored business customers’ passwords in plaintext on its servers… for 14 years
May 22, 2019Google has admitted that some of its business customers of G Suite (formerly known as Google Apps) had their passwords stored on the company’s internal servers for 14 years in plaintext. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Zara Larsson wants your password so she can watch Game of Thrones
May 13, 2019When a celebrity asks if you can share your password…
Hacker could locate thousands of cars and kill their engines remotely via poorly-secured GPS tracking apps
Apr 25, 2019App accounts were “protected” by a default password. That password? 123456. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.