A threat actor known online as USDoD has posted a data dump containing 2.7 billion records, and says that it contains the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for all citizens of the United State...
Inspiration for my posts comes from different places – news events mostly, but they also come from things that happen in my everyday life. The inspiration for this post comes from a topic on Alt...
This week, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the successful takedown of a Crimeware As A Service (CaaS) platform that offered the ability to spoof telephone numbers which was used by criminals...
Watch any Hollywood movie that contains a scene where a nerd is tasked with hacking some IT system and its a flurry of fingers across a keyboard and then a few seconds later, the immortal shout of ...
Security analysts working for Baltimore-based Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security company – Dragos have released an in-depth review of their findings into a new malware which they have nam...
Checkmate Cyber-crims! The NCA (National Crime Agency) in association with the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) and the US FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) have announced this week the ...
Unless you were living in a cave, or having a spiritual tech detox session, you cannot have failed to notice the global IT outages that happened last Friday. The incident which occurred has been attri...
For many people, the ability to customise their computer work space is a wonderful thing – the ability to change colour schemes, sounds, wallpapers, etc. is something that allows them to express...
Car dealerships across the United States and Canada have been targeted in a multi-pronged attack focused mainly against cloud services provider CDK Global. 1st attack The attack started on the 18th Ju...
Security researchers working for Volexity have discovered a novel malware which uses Emojis sent via a custom Discord server that has the ability to control compromised Linux distributions. Volexity s...