Coinmama, a site that is supposed to “make it fast, safe and fun” to buy Bitcoins and Etherium with a credit card, has suffered a data breach that has resulted in almost half a million customers having their personal details breached.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Popular British parenting site Mumsnet apologises after software update allows users to log into strangers’ accounts.
Such a leak is likely to anger Trump and the White House, of course, and so Axios had to be careful not to throw their source under the bus.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is investigating a security breach that has seen hackers steal personal information from its systems.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A database of 70,000 offender and incident logs was only supposed to be accessible internally within UK hardware store B&Q, but was instead exposed for anyone to access - no password required.
So you’d expect B&Q to fix this pretty quickly after being told about the problem, right?
A huge collection of email addresses and passwords, which can be used in attempts to break into online accounts, has been discovered.
If you are one of the affected users, what should you do about it?
Just before Christmas, hackers managed to break into a database belonging to a popular online game and steal the details of over seven million players.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The private communications, emails, contact details, mobile phone numbers, memos, and financial information of hundreds of politicians have been published online.
Week after week, month after month, 2018 saw organisations and companies struck by massive and damaging data breaches, putting the personal details of innocent members of the public at risk.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Google has admitted that Google Plus suffered another security failure last month, allowing the personal information of 52 million users to be accessed by third-party apps and developers without permission.
PODCASTFitness apps exploit TouchID through a sneaky user interface trick, tech giants claim to have a plan to banish passwords, and you won’t believe who was behind a sextortion scam that targeted over 400 members of the US military.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by ferret-loving ethical hacker Zoë Rose.
Approximately 100 million Quora users may have had their information accessed by hackers.
There’s bad news if you’re one of the 500 million hotel guests whose data was included on the Starwood guest reservation database.
Dell has revealed that earlier this month it discovered that hackers had breached its security and were attempting to access customer details - including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords.
New information has come to light which makes it more difficult to defend York city council’s actions and communications in response to being told about a vulnerability in its One Planet York app.
Some in the computer security community feel that the council over-reacted by reporting the incident to the police.
I’m not so sure.
