On North Korea’s Cyberattack Capabilities
April 22 2021Excellent New Yorker article on North Korea’s offensive cyber capabilities.
Read moreEasy SMS Hijacking
March 19 2021
Vice is reporting on a cell phone vulnerability caused by commercial SMS services. One of the things these services permit is text message forwarding. It turns out that...
Read moreNaked Security Live – HAFNIUM explained in plain English
March 15 2021Latest episode - watch now!
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Read moreFallen victim to online fraud? Here’s what to do…
February 12 2021Practical tips on how to avoid getting scammed in the first place, as well as what to do if it does happen.
Read morePolice Have Disrupted the Emotet Botnet
January 28 2021
A coordinated effort has captured the command-and-control servers of the Emotet botnet:
Emotet establishes a backdoor onto Windows computer systems via automated phishing emails that distribute Word documents...
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Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data
January 27 2021
Insider data theft:
Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministry’s COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground.
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According to Verlaan, the...
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Read moreOn the Evolution of Ransomware
December 30 2020
Good article on the evolution of ransomware:
Though some researchers say that the scale and severity of ransomware attacks crossed a bright line in 2020, others describe this year...
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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack
December 28 2020
Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international...
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