Computer #security chap. Public speaker, blogger, #DoctorWho fan since 1972. Author of Jacaranda Jim and Humbug games. Host of the @smashingsecurity #podcast. Needs haircut.
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Last Notes npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley It's not every day that you read that the head of America's top law enforcement agency has been hacked, but then - these aren't ordinary times. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley "Trump murders children!" Denver's crosswalks hacked to broadcast anti-Trump messages. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Good news: You seized millions of $$$ worth of cryptocurrency from bad guys! npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley There is a certain poetic justice in a cybersecurity-related story that has emerged from Moscow this week: A man has been accused of trying to extort money... from a notorious Russian ransomware gang. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over £800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The FBI has seized control of RAMP, a notorious cybercrime online forum that bragged to be the only place that allowed ransomware, and boasted over 14,000 active users. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Imagine the scene. It's a cold Monday morning in Moscow. You walk out to your car, coffee in hand, ready to face the day. You press the button to unlock your car, and ... nothing happens. You try again. Still nothing. The alarm starts blaring. You can't turn it off. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley @nprofile…qr0g Such fun having @nprofile…3qha on the show - long overdue! npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley I don't understand how the UK government (and indeed many firms) can continue to maintain a presence on Elon Musk's deepfake porn site (formerly known as Twitter), rather than jumping ship to the likes of Mastodon and Bluesky. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Proof positive that companies are covering up the capabilities of their robots... npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Not for the first time, hackers have breached a third-party service provider used by Discord, stealing personal information belonging to an unknown number of users - including email addresses, billing data, IP addresses, limited payment details, and more. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Two Dutch teenagers have been arrested, accused of spying on behalf of pro-Russian hackers. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley This kind of thing would put me off my dinner… npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Would you be happy having a robot fold your laundry? What if your pet tortoise has crawled in there for a snooze? npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley LinkedIn isn't the only place you'll find job adverts. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The Tea app - where women anonymously rate men - has had quite the month. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley I'm a big fan of recycling. But what about recycling our private data? Like medical records? A Thai hospital has been fined after patient's printed records were recycled as 𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙗𝙖𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙮 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙨! npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley This is painfully ironic. A woman's dating app designed to enhance safety and vet potential dating partners has itself fallen victim to hackers. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Great news that Japanese police have put together a free decryptor for the Phobos ransomware (helped no doubt by arrested of suspected members of the gang, and the seizure of its infrastructure) npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley I think it's a great idea. Lets face it, your nan isn't going to read a blog post about malicious QR codes, but she might read the side of a baguette bag while tucking into her lunch. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley You’ve heard of ransomware, deepfake scams, and business email compromise. But what about bread bag cybercrime awareness? 🥖 npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The Co-op has confirmed that EVERY SINGLE ONE of its 6.5 million members had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack earlier this year. Yes, EVERYONE. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The CEO of X has eXited the building, one day after its AI-powered chatbot Grok praised Hitler. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley As Texas reels from devastating floods, conspiracy theorists are hard at work. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Could the aviation industry be the next big target for hacking groups like Scattered Spider? And if so, why? npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Insider threats continue to be one of the nastiest blind spots in cybersecurity. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Three years ago I went to an "immersive" Van Gogh experience. It was great. On the London Underground today I saw an ad for a Titanic *immersive* experience... npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley In the latest episode of the award-winning "The AI Fix" podcast I tell the harrowing story of how chatbots are convincing ordinary people they were chosen, manipulated their minds, and in some cases, pushed them to the edge. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley A 100-year-old German company has reportedly filed for insolvency after a ransomware attack. An employee who arrived at the company in the morning even found extortion notes on the printers. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley You can't blame Denmark for being concerned. Its government's sensitive data is nestled deep within a proprietary cloud on another country. One that is being less than friendly to you. It seems fair to ask - is this sensible? npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley BBC announces Doctor Who is coming back, but with no more money from Disney - budget cut is inevitable. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Australia - the first country in the world to make it mandatory for organisations to declare to the government if a ransomware payment is made on their behalf to cyber extortionists npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley For over a decade, AVcheck offered a convenient service: upload your suspicious file, and it would tell you which anti-virus detected it npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Victoria's Secret has reportedly suffered a major IT outage due to a cybersecurity "incident." For over 24 hours, its stores in the US were reportedly unable to process transactions, check inventory, or handle returns. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Ford is rolling out a software patch to some of its cars. The reason? "a frozen or missing rearview camera image can reduce the driver's view behind the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash." npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Hmm.. Google VEO 3 can do some scary/cool (delete as applicable) things with video, but are we really wise burning away the world's depleting natural resources to regenerate old memes like this? npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Sad to see that Mozilla is shutting Pocket down. :( npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Thanks to the team at @nprofile…m7my for sponsoring my website this week, and supporting my work. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The overwhelming majority of people who work in cybersecurity agree. Creating "lawful access" backdoors fundamentally undermines EVERYONE's security - including yours. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley I spit on 23andMe's grave... npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for…. fraud npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Such a great time delivering the keynote at the TCS BaNCS Annual Customer Forum in Barcelona - describing how to make a billion dollars through cybercrime! npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Remember Russia? That country everyone used to agree was home to lots of hackers. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Remember Luxo Jr? The Pixar film about a anthropomorphic desk lamp? Well, boffins at Apple have actually made an AI robot lamp... 🤖🛋 npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley You know what Mastodon needs? More chit-chat about AI robot barbers! ✂️💈🤖 npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The Daily Star is continuing to shine light on the important issues. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Researchers have found it's easier to generate harmful content with DeepSeek than just about any other #AI. That's only going to encourage yet more people to use DeepSeek... npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley The Turkish government is proposing a controversial new cybersecurity law that could make it a criminal act to report on data breaches. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Scareware scam: Restoro and Reimage fined $26 million fine by FTC. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley So many people asking what's going on with Kate Middleton, but hardly anyone asking where on earth Melania Trump is... npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley @npub13d8…ycpx That's me at the computer behind her in the thumbnail! npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Microsoft Outlook is blocking all emails from tutanota.com as spam. @npub1a76…3kkt is understandably not happy at "radio silence" from Microsoft's support team. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley One day my grandchildren will ask me what I did during the great Booking.com scam of 2023, and I'll be able to point them to my quote in today's Daily Mirror. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley My old friend Alie Hothersall is raising money for Mind, in memory of her teenage son Joshua who took his life in tragic circumstances last year. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Greater Manchester Police latest force to suffer serious data breach. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Japan's cybersecurity agency admits it was hacked for months. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Security researchers have demonstrated how they were able to exploit a flaw which allowed them to hack the card-shuffling devices used in casinos and poker rooms. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley Rogue IT security worker who impersonated ransomware gang is sentenced to jail. npub1fr2cv2h74fjwlx865l0mn3j5ff7ac2nq2k9xz7rmnyk30dvfde0q9u2t8f Graham Cluley BlackLotus bootkit patch may bring "false sense of security", warns NSA
