A 40-year-old man could face up to 10 years in prison, after admitting in a US District Court to sabotaging his former employer's computer systems.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Author: Graham Cluley
A 40-year-old man could face up to 10 years in prison, after admitting in a US District Court to sabotaging his former employer’s computer systems. Casey K Umetsu, of Honolulu, Hawaii, has pleaded guilty to charges that he deliberately misdirected a financial company’s email traffic and prevented customers from reaching its website in a failed […]… Read More
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Anti-porn "shamware" apps take a privacy pounding, is your image already being used by AI, and deepfake danger continues to deepen.
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 Host Unknown's Thom Langford.
Politicians including Portugese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa are amongst those who have had their personal information leaked following an attack by the notorious Ragnar Locker gang against the country's national airline TAP.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Users of Revolut, the popular banking app, would be wise to be on their guard - as scammers are sending out barrages of SMS text messages, posing as official communications from the financial firm.
Could the 16-year-old arrested in Oxford in March now be the 17-year-old arrested in Oxfordshire and charged with breaching his bail conditions?
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The boy, who has not been named, was arrested as part of an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). He remains in police custody.
Although at the time of writing no more details have been shared, there is speculation online that the arrest is in relation to the recent hacks of Uber and Rockstar Games.
A self-proclaimed cryptocurrency millionaire has been charged with multiple felonies for his alleged role in a scam that purported to sell a high-powered cryptomining machine called the "Bitex Blockbuster" that did not actually exist.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Between 5-7 October, I will be chairing the UK's National Information Security Conference (better known as NISC), at Carden Park in Cheshire. It's a great event - you should come along.
Oh, and we'll do the podcast "live" there as well...