I wrote about the potential of scams around the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria last week: Earthquake = Scams – Smart Thinking Solutions Now the BBC has a report that looks at the scams that are happening: Scammers profit from Turkey-Syria earthquake – BBC News These people know no …
The Tor network service suffers ongoing DDoS attacks
It has been revealed that the Tor network has been suffering a sustained series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which has been going on since July 2022. Tor and I2P networks hit by wave of ongoing DDoS attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) At its peaks, this attack has been stopping users …
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Bruce Schneier on AI and Hacking
The very capable ChatGPT AI has been in the news recently for writing human quality code, essays, novels and even academic papers. Whilst it was free it was even used for hacking – of course – and it may still be used for malicious purposes even though it is now …
Another UK business has customer data stolen
This time it is the car retailer Arnold Clarke: Arnold Clark customer data ‘stolen in cyber attack’ – BBC News The data theft includes valuable ID information – copies of such documents as passports and driving licenses – as well as financial and personal data, all highly valued by threat …
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JD Sports hit by a cyber incident
The sportswear company JD Sports is reporting that potentially the data it held on over 10 million customers may have been accessed in a cyber attack: JD Sports says 10 million customers hit by cyber attack. – BBC News The issues covers several of the company’s brands: JD Sports is …
