Earlier this month – without notice – the budget web hosting service, GoDaddy, started adding JavaScript code to their customer web sites. Shortly afterwards, a large number of websites started working slowly or stopped working entirely. GoDaddy claimed that “most customers won’t experience issues when opted-in” but they also confessed that “the JavaScript used may…
Facebook has recently admitted that they were collecting data on all of your calls and text messages. They have acknowledged that they were recording the date, time, duration, and recipient of calls made on Android phones over the the last several years. This data was collected by anyone who had agreed to sync your phone…
About the Attack: Pirform released an announcement yesterday (18th September, 2017) informing their users that CCleaner v5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191 had been compromised, as an attacker managed to place malicious code inside the official CCleaner releases. Users who had installed either of these versions, estimated to be 2.27 million people, may have had non-personally identifiable…
In June the Petya virus shut down TNT worldwide for four days. Their customers were left in limbo because no parcels could be scanned and shipped across the entire organization. All because of a problem that would have been avoided if they applied updates Microsoft released four months earlier in March. This failure will impact…