We’ve written several times before about home delivery scams, where cybercriminals take advantage of our ever-increasing (and, in coronavirus times, often unavoidable) use of online ordering combined with to-the-doorstep delivery. Over the past year or …
Home delivery scams get smarter – don’t get caught out Read More »
Naked Security British seaside resorts are famous for their piers, walkways that stretch out over the sea so that visitors can get the feeling of being “at sea” without actually boarding a boat and risking …
British tourists charged £1000s for pier visits in billing blunder Read More »
Naked Security We all ought to know by now that passwords that are easy to guess will get guessed. We recently reminded ourselves of that by guessing, by hand, 17 of the top 20 passwords …
How to hack into 5500 accounts… just using “credential stuffing” Read More »
Naked Security Earlier this week we wrote about a jailbreak hack against Apple’s newly introduced AirTag product. In that story, the researcher @ghidraninja was able to modify the firmware on the AirTag itself, despite the …
Apple AirTag hacked again – free internet with no mobile data plan! Read More »
Naked Security Usually, when browser updates come out, it’s obvious what to do if you’re running that browser on your laptop or desktop computer. But we often get questions from readers (questions that we can’t …
Firefox for Android gets critical update to block cookie-stealing hole Read More »
Naked Security It’s only a week since Apple’s last product updates, but it’s already time to update again. As you probably know, Apple, unusually amongst major operating system and application producers, doesn’t have any sort …
Apple products hit by fourfecta of zero-day exploits – patch now! Read More »
Naked Security When it comes to all the various types of malware out there, none has ever dominated the headlines quite as much as ransomware. Sure, several individual malware outbreaks have turned into truly global …
Ransomware: don’t expect a full recovery, however much you pay Read More »
Naked Security Google, whose Project Zero bug-hunting team is often surprisingly vocal when describing and discussing software vulnerabilities, has taken a very quiet approach to a just-patched bug in its Chrome browser. Full article
Naked Security Bug hunter Tavis Ormandy of Google’s Project Zero just discovered a dangerous bug in the GNU Privacy Guard team’s libgcrypt encryption software. The libgcrypt library is an open-source toolkit that anyone can use, …
GnuPG crypto library can be pwned during decryption – patch now! Read More »
Naked Security You probably don’t need to be told what sort of products were on offer at an online retail site called DarkMarket. As you can imagine, it operated on the so-called dark web, and …
Europol announces bust of “world’s biggest” dark web marketplace Read More »
Naked Security Many pupils are starting their new school term from home rather than the classroom. For families with younger kids, home schooling is often the first time that their children have needed to use computers (rather than gaming consoles) in earnest. Whether you’re new to …
Naked Security You’ve probably heard or seen the news that the US CISA issued an alert this week with the unassuming identifier AA20-302A. CISA is short for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the AA20-302A …
FBI “ransomware warning” for healthcare is a warning for everyone! Read More »