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How to set up parental controls on your child’s new smartphone

Give yourself peace of mind and help create a safe online space for your child using Android or iOS parental controls So you’re about to give your kid their first smartphone. While your child will be over the moon with their shiny new device, you begin to wonder how to stop the kid from spending every waking hour glued to the gadget. Chances are that somewhere along the way, you’ll start to discover the world…

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OneCoin scammer Sebastian Greenwood pleads guilty, “Cryptoqueen” still missing

by Paul Ducklin The “Missing Cryptoqueen” saga has made long-term headlines since co-founders Ruja Ignatova and Karl Sebastian Greenwood started a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin, way back in 2014. Ignatova, who hails from Bulgaria, and who apparently liked to be known as The Cryptoqueen (her charge sheet even shows that name as an alias), has been wanted in the US on various wire fraud, money laundering and securities fraud charges since October 2017. According…

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DraftKings Data Breach Impacts Personal Information of 68,000 Customers

Sports betting firm DraftKings says the personal data of 68,000 individuals has been compromised in a recent data breach. The incident, initially disclosed in November, was the result of a credential stuffing attack and not a breach of DraftKings’ systems, the company says. Credential stuffing involves the use of leaked credentials (usernames, email addresses, and passwords) obtained from a third-party source to access an account on a different service. Such attacks are successful only because…

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Hacked Ring Cams Used to Record Swatting Victims

Photo: BrandonKleinPhoto / Shutterstock.com Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into the Ring home security cameras of a dozen random people and then “swatting” them — falsely reporting a violent incident at the target’s address to trick local police into responding with force. Prosecutors say the duo used the compromised Ring devices to stream live video footage on social media of police raiding their targets’ homes, and to taunt authorities when they arrived.…

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Google Workspace Gets Client-Side Encryption in Gmail

Google on Friday announced the beta availability of client-side encryption in Gmail for some of its Google Workspace customers. The feature is meant to improve the confidentiality of emails when they rest on Google’s servers, by applying encryption to the email body and attachments while providing Workspace customers with control over the encryption keys and the identity service used to access the keys. “Google Workspace already uses the latest cryptographic standards to encrypt all data…

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MirrorFace aims for high‑value targets in Japan – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

The group’s proprietary backdoor LODEINFO delivers additional malware, exfiltrates credentials, and steals documents and emails This week, the ESET research team published their findings about a spearphishing campaign that the Chinese-speaking threat actor MirrorFace launched in Japan and that mainly focused on members of a specific Japanese political party. The campaign – which ESET Research has named Operation LiberalFace and which occurred in the lead-up to the House of Councillors elections in July 2022 –…

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US Food Companies Warned of BEC Attacks Stealing Food Product Shipments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are raising alarm on business email compromise (BEC) attacks leading to the theft of shipments of food products and ingredients. Typically used to steal money, BEC involves threat actors compromising email accounts at target companies and then targeting employees in charge of making payments with fraudulent emails that instruct them to…

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Help! My kid has asked Santa for a smartphone

The time has come for your child to receive their first smartphone. Before handing it over, however, make sure to help them use their new gadget safely and responsibly. Choosing the right holiday gift(s) for your children can be nerve-racking, perhaps doubly so if you’re choosing it for your pre-teen. It’s at that age when many kids feel they’re too old for toys and start insisting they need their first smartphone. Indeed, at that age,…

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Traveling for the holidays? Stay cyber‑safe with these tips

Holiday travel is back with a vengeance this year. Set yourself up for a cyber-safe and hassle-free trip with our checklist. You’ve successfully avoided all sorts of shopping scams while hunting for bargains this holiday season, and now the time has come to drive, fly or take a train home for Christmas. You’re taking time off to relax, but it is certainly not the time to put cybersecurity on the back burner – cybercrime knows…

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S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]

by Paul Ducklin PWNING THE WINDOWS KERNEL Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite podcatcher. READ THE TRANSCRIPT DOUG.  Wireless spyware,…

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