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North Koreans are hacking their smartphones to access banned content
Some tech savvy North Korean mobile users are managing to jailbreak their smartphones to circumvent tight government controls: report. Read more…
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The little guy can still be a player in a world of state sponsored hackers
The little guy fights back. In a world where the focus is state sponsored hackers, there are stories out there that salute the little guy. Read more…
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Cybercrime Unicorns with great customer service, what next?
Cybercrime is already huge – and still growing at a phenomenal rate. It is also changing shape in scary ways. Read more…
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Air-gapping is no longer fool proof – basically nothing is safe anymore
Air-gapping was, for a long time, seen as the only real way of making systems ‘unhackable.’ Yet unconnected systems are now being breached. Read more…
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Ransomware is like a black hole, creating a dark vortex – is there hope?
Ransomware is so widespread and dangerous that it is pulling other dark arts into its orbit and creating an ecosystem that is causing global havoc. Read more…
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Hacking back is a fantastic idea – no, wait it will usher in complete chaos
Hacking back is where companies under cyberattack can hack their attacker – great in theory, but bad and potentially dangerous in practice. Read more…
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Security must be built into everything because you never know what is next
Security must be discussed at the outset of everything. Examples are mounting of hackers reaping huge harvests from slack security practices. Read more…
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DeFi platforms: the latest front in cryptocurrency’s hacking problem
Cryptocurrency exchanges were the epicentre for cyberheists. Now, a bigger hacking risk is peer-to-peer crypto or DeFi platforms. Read more…
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Hackers now hold the trump cards as attacks spiral out of control
It is clear that hackers now hold the trump cards, as attacks across every arena and sector of our world spiral into an uncontrollable mess. Read more…
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Tokens worth $600 million stolen from DeFi cryptocurrency platform
A cryptocurrency platform has lost an estimated $600 million in digital tokens after one of the sector’s biggest ever hacking attacks. Read more…
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Data breach at McDonald’s – what on Earth did they want, a Big Mac?
The recent data breach at McDonald’s in South Korea and Taiwan just sounds weird. A bank, insurance company, a telco are easy to understand. Read more…
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Hacking, scams, fakes soared in the pandemic, what happens afterwards?
Hacking horror stories, new and more devious scams and fake everything have all been given a boost during the pandemic. What happens now? Read more…
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Drones are causing massive disruption – hacking, bombing, all sorts
Drones are cool. You can take aerial photos and videos of your house and garden which is great. They are also being used to cause damage. Read more…
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Keeping up with the latest scams is hard, stressful and getting harder
The latest scams used to be a list that would appear weekly, or monthly. Now it is almost impossible to keep up. And they are everywhere. Read more…
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Did we just give up on cybersecurity? Is it because the problem is too big?
Cybersecurity should be our main focus. But the worse the attacks get, the more apathetic we become, or so it seems. Read more…
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Security is in the spotlight – but there is a real twist at the global level
Security is in the spotlight at the moment, for several reasons. Some stories we read about daily, some we read about. Then read again. Read more…
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Hacking groups exploiting Microsoft mail server software flaw
At least 10 hacking groups are using recently discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software to break into targets around the world. Read more…
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Will the SolarWinds hack make us tighten security in the tech industry?
The SolarWinds hack was sophisticated and probably a harbinger of things to come. It signalled the end of ‘smash and grab’ tactics. Read more…
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Spy vs Spy? Chinese may have used NSA software in hacking operations
Chinese spies used code first developed by the US National Security Agency to support their hacking operations, say Israeli researchers. Read more…
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Zero-day attacks are still a big threat and not being taken seriously enough
Zero-day attacks are scary for security and easy for hackers because flaws can be reused. And the root of the problem is time and money. Read more…