18-year-old Blaze Angel Roberts is a talented surfer with 40,000 Instagram followers. Unfortunately, her popularity also seems to have drawn the unwanted attention of hackers, who successfully tricked her into clicking on a phishing link, and handing over the password to her email account.
It’s not the first time Israeli soldiers have been targeted with Hamas honeytraps to infect their smartphones with spyware.
Yesterday the social media accounts of at least 16 NFL teams were hijacked by a hacking gang with a history of mischievous attacks.
A rapping bank worker is accused of stealing from the vault, the devices that can hide your car’s true mileage, and why it may be a case of “No No No” rather than “Ho Ho Ho” when it comes to IoT toys this Christmas. And as Carole sups the mulled wine, Graham has problems with his internet connection… All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast.
Footballers’ wives go to war over Instagram leaks, it turns out fake news is fine on Facebook (just so long as it’s in a political ad), and things take a horrific turn in Japan, as a stalker uses a scary technique to find out where his pop idol lives. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Dave Bittner.
Erection your honour! Lawyers find themselves behind bars after they make porn movies in an attempt to scam internet users, boffins in Israel detail a way to steal data from an air-gapped computer, and Instagram coughs up $30,000 after a researcher finds a simple way to hack into anybody’s account. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast.
A security researcher has been awarded $30,000 after discovering a serious vulnerability that could potentially have put any Instagram account at risk of being hacked. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A security researcher has discovered a publicly-accessible database containing the details of millions of Instagram users, including their contact information. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Someone has posted some rather bizarre things on singer Michael Bublé’s Instagram account.
Travel blogger Delaine Maria D’Costa had her account wiped after she failed to pay an extortionist $200. That was bad enough, but then she had to try to convince Instagram to let her have it back again.
One travel blogger finds you don’t have to be Kylie Jenner to be targeted by an Instagram hacker. When 40 iPhones at a hospital mysteriously die, what could be the explanation? And, surprise surprise, political parties in the USA are throwing around hacking accusations. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Naked Security’s Mark Stockley.
Instagram has entered the 21st century, and finally added support for third-party 2FA apps like Google Authenticator, Duo Mobile, and Authy. Please turn it on.
Popstar Selena Gomez’s alleged hacker has been charged. Are your secret password reset questions easy to answer with public information?
Facebook trials a new way of tackling revenge porn – which sees victims sending the social network their nude pics.
It’s easy to phone up a celebrity on Instagram following security breach, facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival can’t tell the girls from the boys, and companies are spying on their workers’ activities. All this and 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 special guest David Bisson.
Attackers have set up a dark web domain for their “Doxagram” site that offers for sale the email addresses and phone numbers of high-profile Instagram users. David Bisson reports.