Sony Pictures hack 2014: how North Korea broke into Hollywood
In November 2014, North Korean hackers destroyed Sony Pictures servers with wiper malware and leaked terabytes of data. …
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Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
Backup 3-2-1 and 3-2-1-1-0: protecting data from ransomware
Modern ransomware deletes backups before encrypting data. The 3-2-1 rule is no longer enough — here's how the 3-2-1-1-0 …
CrowdStrike: the day one update caused 8.5 million BSODs
On 19 July 2024, CrowdStrike Falcon crashed 8.5 million PCs with a BSOD. The biggest cyber outage in history: technical …
Twitter hack 2020: how three hackers hijacked Obama and Musk
In July 2020, three young men took over 130 Twitter accounts with a fake call to internal support. The attack step by …
Ransomware: how to protect yourself and what to do if you're hit
93% of ransomware attacks target the backups. How data kidnapping works, the 6 defences that actually protect you and …
WannaCry: how an NSA exploit infected 200,000 PCs in 2017
In May 2017, WannaCry used an NSA exploit to infect 200,000 PCs across 150 countries. Brazil was the 5th worst hit — and …
4 July 2009: the DDoS that revealed the Lazarus Group to the world
On 4 July 2009, hackers knocked over the websites of the White House, the Pentagon and the NYSE in a coordinated DDoS — …
NotPetya: the US$10 billion cyberattack, 9 years on
On 27 June 2017, a wiper disguised as ransomware left Ukraine and caused US$10 billion in damage. Maersk, Merck and …
The "hi, mum" WhatsApp scam: how it works and how to avoid it
Photo, name and even the way of writing, all copied. Here are the two scams behind "hi mum, I've changed my number" and …
Morris Worm: the 1988 worm that nearly took down the internet
On 2 November 1988, a worm released by a Cornell student brought down 6,000 computers and almost stopped the entire …