Julius Kivimäki has been jailed, in Finland for more than six years, for stealing the confidential files of about 33,000 therapy patients and then trying to blackmail victims with that information. Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail – BBC News He tried extorting the company, Vastaamo, first. When …
Because It’s Friday – True Hacking
Is it too early for Easter? I came across this article following the release of some Apple patches this week, as I was interested how Apple’s tvOS could be compromised by hackers. So I did some research and this was one of the articles Google gave me: The Virus Inside …
Chatbot attacks
A few short months ago AI chatbots and ChatGPT were all the tech and mainstream news seemed to be talking about! But of course, the threat actors were reading and listening to all that news and have been developing attacks that will exploit the victims new love of AI. UK …
China and US Outlook Online cyber attacks
Microsoft has reported to the US government that it has monitored Chinese threat actors gaining access to the email of various organisations including US government departments. Microsoft: China accused of hacking US government emails – BBC News Microsoft alleges China behind attack on Exchange Online • The Register China denied …
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So what can be hacked?
It looks like most things can be hacked according to the White hat hacker event Pwn2Own 2023. Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu, and macOS hacked at Pwn2Own 2023 – BleepingComputer You can add Adobe Reader and Microsoft SharePoint and more to the list… Do you think you need take your cyber …
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 …
A hack and some good planning
Planet Ice – operators of an ice rink in Bristol – have been hacked and customer data has been compromised. That is the bad news. The good news is – and I am going to say here that Planet Ice planned this, but I have no evidence, just the benefit …