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Open-source intelligence and flattery at the heart of a clever business email compromise operation

Open-source intelligence and flattery at the heart of a clever business email compromise operation

Business email compromise attacks date back a decade, and they are certainly not going away. But the methods of attack ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 02 Feb 2023
Google Fi customers’ data exposed as part of T-Mobile hack

Google Fi customers’ data exposed as part of T-Mobile hack

Google has sent out emails to customers of its Google Fi mobile data network informing them that some of their data have ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 02 Feb 2023
Phishers dupe Microsoft into giving them ‘verified publisher’ status

Phishers dupe Microsoft into giving them ‘verified publisher’ status

Zero trust is a common strategy when it comes to cyber security, but what happens when the systems built to provide ...

David Hollingworth Thu, 02 Feb 2023
Pro-Russian hackers take down Denmark’s Centre for Cyber Security website

Pro-Russian hackers take down Denmark’s Centre for Cyber Security website

Following a protracted, months-long DDoS campaign, Denmark announced this week that it was raising the threat level for ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 01 Feb 2023
Op-Ed: Getting an attacker’s view of your security

Op-Ed: Getting an attacker’s view of your security

It is often said in security circles that defenders have to be right all the time, while attackers only need to get ...

Simon Ractliffe Wed, 01 Feb 2023
KeePass password manager vulnerability revealed — but KeePass doesn’t agree

KeePass password manager vulnerability revealed — but KeePass doesn’t agree

There’s a rumble afoot in the world of cyber security. On one side are the experts behind the common vulnerability and ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 31 Jan 2023
TSA responds to no-fly list leak with new security directives

TSA responds to no-fly list leak with new security directives

The fallout from last week’s leaking of the United States’ no-fly list is continuing, with the Transportation Security ...

David Hollingworth Tue, 31 Jan 2023
French citizen extradited to the US to face hacking charges

French citizen extradited to the US to face hacking charges

A 21-year-old Frenchman was extradited to the United States last week after being arrested in Morocco in 2022

David Hollingworth Mon, 30 Jan 2023
FBI takes down servers and websites belonging to Hive ransomware group

FBI takes down servers and websites belonging to Hive ransomware group

After a six-month-long operation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has scored a big win in the fight against ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed: How to help our essential cyber security workers avoid burnout

Op-Ed: How to help our essential cyber security workers avoid burnout

Imagine for a moment that you work as a cyber security professional at one of the major Australian companies that ...

Collin Penman Fri, 27 Jan 2023
How treating important data like a military secret can improve overall data security

How treating important data like a military secret can improve overall data security

Earlier this month, Australian data security company archTIS published a fascinating blog post on how to keep ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 27 Jan 2023
Duolingo hit by scraping attack, as millions of user details for sale

Duolingo hit by scraping attack, as millions of user details for sale

Duolingo is investigating a data-scraping incident following a post on a well-known data breach forum offering the data ...

David Hollingworth Fri, 27 Jan 2023
Bots behind disastrous Taylor Swift Ticketmaster sales incident

Bots behind disastrous Taylor Swift Ticketmaster sales incident

Video games, defence, education … cyber security covers them all. And now we can add Taylor Swift to the list of all ...

David Hollingworth Wed, 25 Jan 2023