Southern Oregon University has announced that it is the latest organization to fall victim to a business email compromise (BEC) attack after fraudsters tricked the educational establishment into transferring money into a bank account under their control. According to media reports, the university fell for the scam in late April when it wired $1.9...

It doesn't matter if you're a regular computer user, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign , or a notoriously short-fused celebrity chef, we all need to harden the defences of our email accounts. Tabloid readers should know that all too well, having seen plenty of stories over the years of intimate photos stolen from Hollywood...

Many businesses live in fear of having their systems hacked. After all, who wants their customers' data to spill out onto the internet or have their confidential plans and intellectual property stolen by online criminals? But more and more organizations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are actually welcoming attempts to test their security in the...

Restaurant search website Zomato has announced that it has suffered a major security breach, resulting in the theft of a user database containing 17 million users' names, email addresses and passwords. The news comes as it is reported that a hacker calling themselves "nclay" is claiming to offer the database for sale on the dark web. ...

Internet-connected cameras around the world are once again being hijacked by malicious hackers in order to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Security researchers at Trend Micro have identified that over 1,000 different models of Internet Protocol (IP) cameras are at risk of being compromised by the threat dubbed Persirai, which...

In Part 1 of this series, we covered how easy it is for any novice to set up a self-hosted WordPress site and how quickly security can fall between the cracks. In this blog post, I will share with you what to look for in a Webhost provider, how to secure and harden WordPress, and what often-overlooked items you should watch out for during this...

What's happened? You may well be one of the millions of internet users who received a dangerous email offering to share a Google Docs file with you. If you made the mistake of clicking on the link, you could start a process that could potentially result in your email archive and contact lists being slurped up in strangers and the same dangerous...

A battle between two rival families of malware is being blamed for the downtime that a Californian ISP suffered earlier this month. As BleepingComputer reports, customers of Sierra Tel unexpectedly found themselves without telephone and internet connectivity on April 10. In a statement issued by the ISP the following day, the blame was put firmly on...

When the world's biggest online advertising platform is reported to be working on a technology to block ads in the world's most popular browser, it's no wonder that some eyebrows will be raised. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Google is planning to build an ad blocker into Google Chrome. The feature, which would be turned on by...

With analyst group Gartner valuing the annual global spending on educational technology at over £17 billion ($21 billion USD) in 2015, there's no doubt that technology implementation is shaping the future of education systems. The appropriate integration of technology guides students, teachers, and administrators towards clarity and extensibility....

Malicious hackers are seizing control of poorly-protected home routers, and commanding them to launch attacks designed to brute force their way into WordPress websites. Security researchers at Wordfence first determined that something noteworthy was happening when they witnessed an unusual spike in attacks originating from Algeria against its...

Do you know who has access to your organisation's network? Are you confident that all the users on your network are authorised to access your systems, and have a good idea of what devices have been connected to your firm's systems? If so, good for you. But not all organisations have such tight control over who gains access to their IT infrastructure...

If there's one day of the year when everyone has their guard up, it's April Fool's Day. After all, who can put their hand up and say that they have never been duped by an April Fool's trick? Some of the classic April Fool's stunts have gone down in history, such as the BBC's news report from 1957 showing the annual spaghetti harvest in Switzerland....

The Russian author of the notorious Citadel malware which infected over 11 million PCs and stole an astonishing $500 million from bank accounts has pleaded guilty to his crimes. 29-year-old Mark Vartanyan, who went by the online handle of "Kolypto", was arrested in the Norwegian town of Fredrikstad in 2015 at the request of the FBI. His extradition...

Attackers hacked a third-party service and used their unauthorized access to push out Nazi-themed tweets from high-profile Twitter accounts. On 14 March, prominent companies, publishers, and personalities tweeted out messages containing swastikas and the hashtags #NaziGermany and #NaziHollan written in Turkish. It's thought that supporters of Turkey...

Do you own an internet-connected DVR, CCTV or IP camera? You may want to check who manufactured it, as proof-of-concept code has been released capable of automating attacks against devices made by Dahua Technology. The firm has issued a security bulletin after a vulnerability researcher claimed that he had uncovered what he believed to be a backdoor...

NextGEN Gallery is an extraordinarily popular plugin for self-hosted WordPress websites, having been downloaded over 16.5 million times. The software's widespread popularity (it claims to have been "the industry's standard WordPress gallery plugin" since 2007) makes it an seemingly obvious choice for website owners looking to add image galleries to...

In their ever-increasing aggressiveness to wring even more money out of victims, it's perhaps no surprise to see some online extortionists creating ransomware targeted against affluent Mac users. The latest example of Mac ransomware, OSX/Filecoder.E, has been discovered by malware analysts at ESET after it was distributed via BitTorrent distribution...

Yahoo is warning more of its users that their accounts might have been accessed by unauthorised parties. Yahoo believes that hackers managed to break into its internal systems, and used the proprietary code they accessed to forge cookies that would allow attackers to access accounts without needing a password. It goes without saying that the ability...

Modern technology has probably done more than its fair share to ignite illicit relationships, but it can also lead to a romantic affair's unravelling. But if your wife or husband becomes aware of an adulterous entanglement through a buggy app, do you blame yourself for having the affair in the first place, or do you blame the software that couldn't...