Serious Security: GPS week rollover and the other sort of “zero day”
I bet you’ve heard of GPS, short for Global Positioning System. It’s owned and operated by the US government but it’s available for free to anyone in the world – and, boy, is…
Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers
An employee-from-hell has been jailed after he got fired (after a measly four weeks), ripped off a former colleague’s login, steamrolled through his former employer’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts,…
WordPress 5.1.1 patches dangerous XSS vulnerability
Researchers have offered more detail on a recently patched vulnerability that would allow an attacker to take over a WordPress site using something as simple as a maliciously crafted comment. Discovered by…
“FINAL WARNING” email – have they really hacked your webcam?
Sextortion is back! In fact, it never went away. Some of us get dozens of sextortion scam emails every month to our work and personal accounts, demanding us to PAY…
TikTok to pay record fine for collecting children’s data
Video streaming app TikTok has agreed to pay a $5.7 million fine for allegedly collecting names, email addresses, pictures and locations of children younger than 13 – all illegal under…
Android is helping kill passwords on a billion devices
It's more important than ever to manage your passwords online, and also harder to keep up with them. That's a bad combination. So the FIDO Alliance— a consortium that develops open source…
Fake text generator is so good its creators don’t want to release full version
Researchers at Elon Musk’s AI think tank OpenAI have created what amounts to a text version of a deepfake – and it’s too scared for humanity to release the full…
What’s behind this 1,000-character phishing URL?
Phishing sites are common, but this week the internet found a strange strain that’s a little rarer: a phishing site with a URL almost a thousand characters long. Experts have…
5 Tips to Change your Password
Even though weak, reused and compromised passwords are the cause behind many breaches, people continue to display pretty risky password behavior. In fact, LastPass have found that 91% of people know that…
Facebook ordered to keep apps separate unless users opt in to sharing
A few weeks ago, the New York Times reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to interconnect all of the company’s chat apps – Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram – in spite…