'Junk gun' ransomware: the cheap new threat to small businesses

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Hacker posts fake story about Ukrainians trying to kill Slovak President.

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Smashing Security podcast: Keeping the lights on after a ransomware attack

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Companies, as people start living longer you’d best increase your passenger year-of-birth field from 2 chars to 4.

City street lights 'misbehave' after ransomware attack in Leicester

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More insights into romance scam cyber slavery here from my colleagues. “According to Ravi, he and the others were forced to work up to 22 hours a day - getting only one day off each month - and told to target wealthy men, particularly in Western countries bbc.com/news/articles/…

Change Healthcare data for sale on dark web as fallout from ransomware attack spirals out of control.

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Take That’s Gary Barlow chats up a pizza-slinging granny from Essex via Facebook, or does he? And a scam takes a sinister twist in Ohio.

All this and more is in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast with Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

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3.5 million Omni Hotel guest details held to ransom by Daixin Team.

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37 arrested as police smash LabHost international fraud network

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Seems to me that a new role has emerged for those who want a career in cybersecurity: Cybercriminal Troll.

Police around the world are making videos to scare the bejeezus out of scammers and hackers, revealing in a jaunty way how they are about to be busted.

Nice one…

Smashing Security podcast episode 368: 'Gary Barlow, and a scam turns deadly'

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Can't wait for the episode coming out at midnight UK? Catch up with latest week's 'Smashing Security' podcast where we discussed the Westminster WhatsApp attacks and more...

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Fake @Bookingcom support accounts trying to scam Twitter users are so much more responsive than Booking[dot]com's real support team.

Zambia arrests 77 people in swoop on 'scam' call centre

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The White House is apparently considering a full ban of Kaspersky software throughout the United States, citing national security concerns.

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