News in Brief: Suspect charged over ransomware attacks on healthcare, education, and more It’s taken a while, and the suspect may never face court, but he’s been charged anyway. Paul Ducklin May 08, 2025 Read Article Read
Mobile Under Fire: Spyware, Exploits & Zero-Click Attacks Deep dive on mobile related spyware, exploits and zero-click attacks. Charles Ho May 07, 2025 Read Article Read
Mobile Workforce Risks to Be Aware Of Mobile risks that executive and non-executive personnel pose. Hwei Oh May 05, 2025 Read Article Read
World Password Day: Hype, hoax, or helpful? Passwords are dead! Long live passwords! (We’re stuck with them for a while yet.) Paul Ducklin May 01, 2025 Read Article Read
Phishing and Smishing: How they work and what to do about them (Part 2 of 2) We burrow into a real-life smishing scam, so you don’t have to. Paul Ducklin Apr 28, 2025 Read Article Read
Phishing and Smishing: How they work and what to do about them (Part 1 of 2) Phishing, meet Vishing, and Quishing, and Smishing. We help you tackle the lot of them. Paul Ducklin Apr 28, 2025 Read Article Read
The Rise of Smishing: How Mobile Phishing Scams Are Evolving Learn about how mobile phishing scams are evolving. Hwei Oh Apr 21, 2025 Read Article Read
News in Brief: IC3 scam-reporting service abused by scammers An unpleasant irony: The FBI’s IC3 scam-reporting brand is being ripped off by scammers Paul Ducklin Apr 19, 2025 Read Article Read
What is ‘Fast Flux’, and why is the US government warning about it? The US government has stated that a cyber trick called Fast Flux is a ‘National Security Threat.’ Paul Ducklin Apr 14, 2025 Read Article Read
C:\INETPUB?"> Microsoft Patch Tuesday: What’s all this about C:\INETPUB? Those rumors that C:\INETPUB could break your updates? Untrue. It wasn’t a bug, it was a feature! (Who knew?) Paul Ducklin Apr 10, 2025 Read Article Read
Verizon fixes data leak in iPhone call logging service Another case where the service that was supposed to improve your safety and security actually exposed you to danger. Paul Ducklin Apr 07, 2025 Read Article Read
News in Brief: Patches from Apple fix privacy, code execution, lock screen bugs Lots of security holes fixed, but none of them reported as zero-days. Paul Ducklin Apr 01, 2025 Read Article Read
News in Brief: Firefox follows Chrome with critical exploit patch Even though Firefox isn’t based on Chrome, the coders of each browser engine made similar mistakes. Paul Ducklin Mar 27, 2025 Read Article Read
News in Brief: Chrome zero-day used in wild, update now! Windows only, apparently, but a sandbox bypass could lead to infection by “just visiting” a rogue site. Paul Ducklin Mar 26, 2025 Read Article Read