Macs, PCs and Servers. Just about everything. The jury is still out on the likelihood of phones being vulnerable. Here’s what you can do right now. More
The BBC reports that the ‘Ghost Shell’ hacking group have released user account data after it was obtained primarily from government agencies in the US and Europe.
“The group gathered the data during a series of attacks on NASA, the FBI, the European Space Agency and many other government agencies and contractors.
Included in the dump were log-in names, passwords, email addresses and CVs, plus the contents of online databases.”
The full report can be read here: BBC- Hacktivists Ghost Shell dump 1.6m log-in details on web
“Spam has somehow invaded the calendar and I am at a loss as to how to remove it.” was the gist of an email I was copied on earlier today. It was quickly followed by another saying: “Gary – HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPP Please:)” More
We are aware that there is a viral post circulating on Tumblr. We are working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible.Thank you.
— Tumblr (@tumblr) December 3, 2012
Following the infection of many Tumblr sites with a worm today, Tumblr have temporarity suspended posting.
Update: Technical detail on how the worm spread are being revealed
You can read more about the attack on Sophos Naked Security
There is a report on Sophos’ Naked Security blog of criminals adding sub domains to genuine websites hosted by Go Daddy. The links lead to sites that install Ransomware.
What does this mean to you? As always, make sure your antivirus and malware protection is up to date, and exercise caution if a link is taking you to a sub domain. More
You’ll need to take the usual precautions. Don’t open a pdf, or any other file for that matter, that’s sent to you unless you trust the source and you are sure that the person sending it is who they claim to be. More
On Tuesday we saw reports of the results of the US government’s monitoring of social media: BBC – Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US. There’s no denying that Big Brother is watching you.
And today we see reports of Anonymous’ ability to monitor US/UK government agencies: BBC – Anonymous gain access to FBI and Scotland Yard hacking call
We should be concerned – in both cases.
We’ve seen a couple of friend’s Yahoo! mail accounts get hacked recently. When one of them got hacked again I did a little bit of research and I was surprised at how prevalent this is. More