Author: Prilock Security

Last week there were worrying reports that hackers had broken into Edmodo, and stolen the details of some 77 million teachers, students and parents.Continue Reading…

Bell Canada said Tuesday 1.9 million customer account details were swiped by hackers – although stressed no payment card numbers or passwords were slurped.Continue Reading…

It looks like most Australians aren’t among the 200,000 victims of the WannaCry ransomware attack, but the Australian Government is warning that this “is not game over” in the battle with hackers.

Associate Professor Mark Gregory from RMIT University agrees, and says it’s impossible to be completely protected from the next attack.

“You can take all the precautions in the world, but you still might get hit by one of these attacks,” he said.

Now you’re sufficiently terrified, here’s what Professor Gregory said you should do if you’ve been attacked, and how you can avoid being caught next time.Continue Reading…

Microsoft’s chief legal officer directed criticism at U.S. spy agencies Sunday, warning that civilians are at risk if governments stockpile libraries of software vulnerabilities that may eventually fall into the hands of cybercriminals.Continue Reading…

DocuSign, a major provider of electronic signature technology, acknowledged today that a series of recent malware phishing attacks targeting its customers and users was the result of a data breach at one of its computer systems. The company stresses that the data stolen was limited to customer and user email addresses, but the incident is especially dangerous because it allows attackers to target users who may already be expecting to click on links in emails from DocuSign.Continue Reading…

A gadget that allows thieves to break into cars with electronic locks in minutes is being openly sold on Amazon and eBay. Priced at $333, the device lets criminals intercept the radio signal from the key as a car owner unlocks the vehicle. It is downloaded to a laptop and the thieves then transmit the stolen signal to break in when the owner leaves it unattended.Continue Reading…

The developers of open source video transcoder app Handbrake have issued a security warning to Mac users after a mirror download server hosting the software was hacked.  The alert was issued on Saturday after it was discovered that the original HandBrake-1.0.7.dmg installer file on mirror server download.handbrake.fr had been replaced by a malicious file.Continue Reading…

If you thought having your smart, internet-connected TV hacked was bad, wait until a production line of big robots gets hacked.  The software that runs internet-connected industrial robots is outdated and vulnerable to hacking, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro and the Politecnico de Milano. The researchers found tens of thousands of industrial devices were susceptible to hackers, which included industrial robots.Continue Reading…

Most IoT device security is pretty terrible, so you’re probably assuming that virtual assistant devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home are a major risk. After all, these devices record all nearby conversations (at least temporarily). But while Alexa does pose some privacy issues, most do not consider it a major security risk.Continue Reading…

Celebrities do it. Your annoying jet-setting friends did it just last week. It’s the gravy of all the annoying #soblessed nomads you know on the internet.

But just because posting a photo of your first-class airline ticket is the best humble brag ever, doesn’t mean you should commit this privacy faux pas and wreck your next vacation, possibly becoming a victim of identity theft in the future as well.Continue Reading…