by Paul Ducklin Earlier this week, we received a moderately believable Amazon Prime phish via email. The scam had an Account Locked subject line, with a warning that we wouldn’t be able to buy or sell anything via Amazon’s services until we verified our...
by Alice Violet This week we discuss why Google abruptly pulled more than 500 Chrome extensions from its Web Store, the case of a man held in custody for refusing to decrypt two hard drives, and research detailing a number of security holes in Bluetooth chipsets. Greg...
by Paul Ducklin Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who is widely credited with the copy-and-paste function that is now nearly ubiquitous in user interfaces, has died at 74. Tesler – note the spelling! – worked at the influential Xerox Palo Alto Research...
by Danny Bradbury The US and UK governments have both accused Russia of launching a cyber attack against the Georgian government last year. The attacks, mounted on 28 October 2019, came from Russia’s notorious GRU military intelligence unit, according to...
by Lisa Vaas The personal data of 10,683,188 MGM hotel guests that leaked sometime in or before 2017 was posted for sale on the Dark Web this week, ZDNet reports. It doesn’t matter that the data isn’t freshly baked: it’s still edible. ZDNet called...
by John E Dunn After fixing a fat pile of critical security flaws as part of last week’s Patch Tuesday update, Adobe has come back with two more that need urgent attention. This is what’s called an out of band update, which means that a vulnerability is...
