LastPass, the popular password manager trusted by millions of people around the world, has announced that it suffered a security breach two weeks ago that saw hackers break into its systems and steal information.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Author: Graham Cluley
LastPass, the popular password manager used by millions of people around the world, has announced that it suffered a security breach two weeks ago that saw attackers break into its systems and steal information. But don’t panic just yet – that doesn’t mean that all of your passwords are now in the hands of internet […]… Read More
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Malicious hackers are demanding $10 million from a French hospital they hit with ransomware last weekend.
The Hospital Center Sud Francilien (CHSF) in Corbeil-Essonnes, south-east of Paris, was struck late on Saturday night, causing major disruption to health services.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Zoom users on macOS are being told once again to update their copy of the video-conferencing software after a security hole was found that could be exploited by hackers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Ransomware is to blame for the closure of all 175 7-Eleven stores in Denmark on Monday.
The retailer closed all of its stores in Denmark after its cash registers and payment systems were brought down in the attack.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Scammers are stealing money from children, with the alluring but bogus promise that China's tough restrictions on online gaming can be subverted.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Ransomware is to blame for the closure of all 175 7-Eleven stores in Denmark on Monday. The retailer closed all of its stores in Denmark after its cash registers and payment systems were brought down in the attack. Initially, 7-Eleven’s Danish division did not say that ransomware was responsible for its problems, simply describing the […]… Read More
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This week Microsoft finally released a patch for a zero-day security flaw being exploited by hackers, that the company had claimed since 2019 was not actually a vulnerability.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Did Russian security Kaspersky really choose to send an email to its customers addressing them as "dear and lovely"? Had Kaspersky suffered a data breach? Had a hacker found a way to send messages to Kaspersky's customer base?
Pornhub has a problem, the UK's Co-op supermarket is accused of big brother tactics, and we take a look at how a security researcher is revealing the true identify of hackers.
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 Maria Varmazis.