Database back ups were stored on a publicly facing website, researcher found. By Phil Muncaster The Australian Red Cross Blood Service has apologized after a database backup file containing over…
Month: October 2016
Alert: You’ve been summoned to court scam emails
Fraudsters are sending out a wave of scam emails purporting to be from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that claim you have to appear in court. We have received several…
Celebgate hack: Collins sentenced over nude photos theft
A Pennsylvania court has sentenced a man to 18 months in jail for hacking into the accounts of celebrities and stealing nude photos and videos. Ryan Collins, 36, pleaded guilty…
Could your 'smart' home be a weapon of web destruction?
Do you use a webcam to check on Tiddles the cat or Bonzo the dog while you’re at work? By Monty Munford, Technology of Business reporter If so, you could…
Only 35% of people follow latest password advice
The latest Government statistics show that only 35% of people in the UK are following Government’s latest advice to use strong passwords made up of three random words. According to…
DDoS attack overwhelmed Dyn despite mitigation efforts
Orders of magnitude fewer devices caused the service interruptions, Dyn says. By Tim Greene Dyn says that the DDoS attack that swamped its DNS resolution service last week was backed…