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Microsoft hit by Storm season – a tale of two semi-zero days

By Paul Ducklin — July 18th 2023 at 20:59
The first compromise didn't get the crooks as far as they wanted, so they found a second one that did...

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Google leaking 2FA secrets – researchers advise against new “account sync” feature for now

By Paul Ducklin — April 26th 2023 at 17:59
You waited 13 years for this feature in Google Authenticator. Now researchers are advising you to wait a while longer, just in case...

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Beware rogue 2FA apps in App Store and Google Play – don’t get hacked!

By Paul Ducklin — February 27th 2023 at 02:10
Even in Apple's and Google's "walled gardens", there are plenty of 2FA apps that are either dangerously incompetent, or unrepentantly malicious. (Or perhaps both.)

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Twitter tells users: Pay up if you want to keep using insecure 2FA

By Paul Ducklin — February 20th 2023 at 17:58
Ironically, Twitter Blue users will be allowed to keep using the very 2FA process that's not considered secure enough for everyone else.

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S3 Ep121: Can you get hacked and then prosecuted for it? [Audio + Text]

By Paul Ducklin — February 9th 2023 at 19:41
Latest epsiode. Listen now!

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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Crypto

By Paul Ducklin — February 6th 2023 at 21:53
Hear renowned cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg's thoughtful commentary about the "war on crypto" as we talk to him about his new book...

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Dutch suspect locked up for alleged personal data megathefts

By Paul Ducklin — January 26th 2023 at 22:02
Undercover Austrian "controlled data buy" leads to Amsterdam arrest and ongoing investigation. Suspect is said to steal and sell all sorts of data, including medical records.

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Twitter Blue Badge email scams – Don’t fall for them!

By Naked Security writer — November 4th 2022 at 17:59
That was the week that was...

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Harmony blockchain loses nearly $100M due to hacked private keys

By Paul Ducklin — June 27th 2022 at 18:14
The crooks needed at least two private keys, each stored in two parts... but they got them anyway.

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SSNDOB Market domains seized, identity theft “brokerage” shut down

By Paul Ducklin — June 8th 2022 at 14:53
The online identity "brokerage" SSNDOB Market didn't want people to be in any doubt what it was selling.

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Know your enemy! Learn how cybercrime adversaries get in…

By Paul Ducklin — June 7th 2022 at 15:49
Here's how 144 recent attacks actually went down in real life. Don't let this happen to you!

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Microsoft patches the Patch Tuesday patch that broke authentication

By Paul Ducklin — May 20th 2022 at 22:35
Remember the good old days when security patches rarely needed patches? Because security patches themlelves were rare enough anyway?

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Happy #PiDay – even if you aren’t in North America!

By Paul Ducklin — March 14th 2022 at 23:59
There is a cybersecurity angle here - but you will need to read right to the end to find it :-)

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