Have you received an email notification that there is a voicemail waiting to be listened to by you?
Maybe you would be wise to think carefully before clicking on the attachment.
Author: Graham Cluley
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Owners of NAS drives manufactured by QNAP have been advised that the company is "thoroughly investigating" reports that a new variant of the DeadBolt ransomware is targeting devices, locking up data and demanding victims pay a fee to extortionists.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A critical vulnerability in a WordPress plugin used on over one million websites has been patched, after evidence emerged that malicious hackers were actively exploited in the wild.
With Father's Day falling this weekend in the United States and UK, more people might be more willing than normal to believe the latest scam to be spreading via WhatsApp is true. But I'm afraid it isn't.
Sorry dads, Heineken isn't giving away free coolers of beer.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Law enforcement agencies around the world appear to have scored a major victory in the fight against fraudsters, in an operation which has seized tens of millions of dollars and seen more than 2000 people arrested.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Law enforcement agencies around the world appear to have scored a major victory in the fight against fraudsters, in an operation that seized tens of millions of dollars and seen more than 2000 people arrested. Operation “First Light 2022”, running for two months from March 8 2002 until May 8 2022, saw 76 countries clamp […]… Read More
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Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Specops. Thanks to the great team there for their support! With the help of live attack data, Specops Software’s Breached Password Protection can detect over 2 billion known breached passwords in your Active Directory. Using the Specops database, you can block commonly used … Continue reading "Want to block two billion known breached passwords from being used at your company? It’s easy with Specops Password Policy tools"
How did a saxophonist sneak sensitive information in and out of the Soviet Union? How might an Apple AirTag have led to murder? And isn't the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain doing just great?
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
The US authorities have sentenced a man to 24 months in a federal prison after he was found to have run a DDoS-for-hire service that knocked websites off the internet.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.