Graham Cluley
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Award-winning cybersecurity keynote speaker, writer, podcaster | Co-host of "Smashing Security" podcast @SmashinSecurity and "The AI Fix" podcast @TheAIFix
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"Good Morning Britain" asked me to speak about the WhatsApp security issue this morning. I declined. After all, they have their own phone hacking expert...
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Credit where credit's due. Michael Gove will do *anything* to stop people talking about Dominic Cumming
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I'm thinking of blocking access to content on my site to anyone not running an ad blocker. Thoughts?
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“Account update failed. Description is considered malware.” 🤣
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Good news: They used the Bcc field when sending out their press release.
Bad news: They put all the email addresses in the Subject field.
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And here is Nadine Dorries MP, the UK government's new head of digital (and culture), telling us how seriously she takes computer security...
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Wuh?
Donald Trump's Twitter account got hacked *again*???
Password was "maga2020!" and no 2FA claims report from hackers who previously discovered his password was "yourefired".
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Journalists - rather than wait to receive a data breach notification from a company just set up a Google alert for the words "we take security very seriously" and find out immediately.
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The Wipro quarterly earnings call would have gone really well if that pesky
@briankrebs
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Running Windows XP in 2017 is like having a rat-licking fetish during the Black Death.
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I think the bigger story is not so much that Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been caught having an extramarital snog, but rather that the Murdoch press has managed to gain access to security CCTV footage from inside the UK Government.
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World’s biggest meat supplier, JBS, suffers cyber attack.
I wonder if their passwords were not stroganoff?
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If you're wondering why
@Cloudflare
wrote this blog post, it's due to criticism it won't dump its far-right client Kiwifarms, which doxxes and harrasses members of the LGBTQ community.
Cloudflare is too chickenshit to mention Kiwifarms in its blog post though.
#dropkiwifarms
Cloudflare launched nearly twelve years ago. Over that time, our set of services has become much more complicated. With that complexity we have developed policies around how we handle abuse of different features Cloudflare provides
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Facebook is understandably furious about the latest data scandal. Normally they get cash from letting others exploit your information.
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@MuhammaddNawaz
@ConradLongmore
Photo was taken four years ago, and the true story is somewhat different:
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We don't even have a vote in the US election, but
#VoteHimOut
is still trending over here in the UK.
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Breaking news: Ubiquiti sues itself following damage done to its reputation by launching law suit against Brian Krebs.
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Possible security vulnerability spotted at Blenheim Palace.
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@KarlTurnerMP
@KemiBadenoch
@UKLabour
@Independent
It was Harriet Harman’s website that she hacked, to promote some guy called Boris Johnson.
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Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is buying Twitter for $44 billion.
The ultimate Twitter troll would be if we all now deleted our accounts.
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These deepfake Tom Cruise videos are deeply disturbing.
Just like the real Tom Cruise.
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It seems
@RussianEmbassy
has got a 14 year old running their social media account.
In today’s papers: pundits call on
@Theresa_May
to disrupt possible Russia-US thaw. No trust in Britain's best friend and ally?
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A truly world-shaking
#AppleEvent
last night, where the tech giant announced its revolutionary invention of function keys and ports that are actually built into a laptop rather than dangling off a dongle.
Bravo!
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Has anyone checked if John McAfee has any plans for dinner tonight?
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Cyberinsurance giant AXA hit by ransomware attack after saying it would stop covering ransom payments
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Back at work after the holidays? Struggling to remember your password?
Here are some likely ones to start with:
💠 123456
💠 123456789
💠 qwerty
💠 password
💠 1234567
💠 12345678
💠 12345
💠 iloveyou
💠 111111
Hope that helps.
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In gross privacy breach, someone leaned over Mark Zuckerberg's shoulder and photographed his notes.
He didn't give them permission, but maybe one of his friends did.
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The biggest lie on the internet: "I have read and agreed with terms and conditions" -
@Mikko
http://t.co/MnpNXSPEgz
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Cybercriminals are using Google reCAPTCHA to hide their phishing attacks
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Just created a rule that puts any emails with an emoji in their subject line straight into my junk folder. I feel this is reasonable.
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Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak
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Orange confirms it suffers a ransomware attack, some business customers' data exposed
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Following a legal threat from ███████ ████ I have removed their name from this article on my site:
I hope readers will accept my apologies for what is clearly unsatisfactory, but I can ill-afford to get embroiled in a legal fight.
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The problem isn't really that Facebook keeps having outages.
The problem is that they keep coming back.
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Kicking up a stink about Amazon's failure to deliver a £700 iPhone to me (and then refusing to refund/replace) has - I'm delighted to say - resulted in the money being returned to me today. 🥳
What I've learnt:
★ Exploiting social media and video to complain can get the
Great news!
@AmazonUK
has got back to me about the £700 iPhone they failed to deliver (and wouldn't refund or replace)
Bad news, what they told me... 😞 Watch my video
Based on this experience, why would anyone buy anything expensive from Amazon ever again?
RT if you agree.
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Years ago, when someone impersonated me on Facebook, and made paedophile comments, and incited others into threatening to shoot my wife and burn my house down, Facebook did nothing.
...until I pointed out that use of my photo was copyright infringement.
Then Facebook acted.
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If you ever need a good laugh, here's a photo for you... keep it in your wallet for when you need a chuckle.
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49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change
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Password advice. Don't tell people to not reuse passwords. You might get a letter from this guy's solicitors.
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Donald Trump’s Twitter password is “maga2020!”, and there’s no 2FA, claims hacker
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50 years after the first murder, the Zodiac killer's coded messages have been cracked
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Can it really be 23 years ago today that the world witnessed the spread of the
#AnnaKournikova
worm?
With an alluring promise of snaps of the tennis star, the worm infected computers with an email-aware worm.
Here are my memories of it from when I worked at Sophos... 1/13
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Don’t buy the Facebook Portal TV.
It “just isn't suited for anyone because of the privacy concerns and increasingly alarming issues plaguing the social networking site.”
Extraordinary review by CNET.
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I've been told that
@guardian
has suffered a "serious IT incident" which is affecting access to all its offices.
Staff are being told to work from home, and not to use VPN to log in to any systems... :(
Wishing the Guardian IT team well, especially at this time of year.
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French TV news show contacted me wanting to talk about the FaceTime bug.
Is it ok if we call you on FaceTime they say...
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I think we've found out for certain who doesn't have an IQ of 197...
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Donald’s next job could be in cyber.
(He just doesn’t know it yet)
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Samsung Washing Machine app won't work unless you give it access to your location, phone calls, contacts...
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These Nigerian teenagers are making films with a smashed-up iPhone. Impressive stuff!
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I've some sad news to share I'm afraid.
Alan Solomon passed away last night, after a brave struggle against cancer. He was, of course, one of the pioneers of the anti-virus industry - a larger-than-life character with a brilliant mind and a great sense of fun.
I remember my
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Finally some stock images of hackers which are not depicting them wearing hoodies...
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NY Times reporting that Facebook security chief Alex Stamos is to leave after clashes over disinformation I can't see how this would be a good thing for Facebook or Facebook's users.
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This is what it’s like when you set your Facebook status privacy to everyone, everywhere...
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If you’re looking for any reason right now, please know that
@signalapp
shouldn’t be considered a WhatsApp replacement.
It’s an upgrade.
We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible.
Thanks for your patience!
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A Tesla on autopilot hit and 'killed' a jaywalking robot and this is how wars start
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In case, CISA's Rumour Control webpage (a US govt website) - which debunks disinformation about the US election - should ever mysteriously disappear, here's a screenshot of the whole darn thing.
You're welcome.
#Protect2020
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LinkedIn. A place where people you don’t know can endorse you for skills you don't possess
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@laffertyclare
Hi Clare. I'm afraid every time I see
@piersmorgan
I feel like I'm going to throw up a little. So I'll pass on the opportunity. Thx
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This may be the most absurd cybersecurity story I've ever told in a keynote. The company that PRETENDED to have been hit by a virus.
And when you hear what the company is, and what they said the virus did, the story even gets more bizarre.
Have you ever heard a more odd story
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Rex Tillerson yesterday (on the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in UK): "We are outraged that Russia appears to have again engaged in such behavior."
Rex Tillerson today: Fired.
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Encrypted email service ProtonMail says new users up 100% since Trump victory
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Extraordinary how folks can be so upset about a star turning into a heart, but not about their govt trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption
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Called to an urgent Zoom meeting with HR? It might be a phishing attack
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ICYMI, I wrote about DDoS attacks, and - guess what? - yup, my website got DDoS attacked
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HONK! Security hole found in Untitled Goose Game that could have allowed hackers to run code on your computer
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Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file. Oops!
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Hackers threaten more leaks after releasing personal information of 1,000 Belarus police officers
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For a meeting today I've been asked to park at a "Thought Leadership car park". When did the world go so badly wrong?
http://t.co/bgKb4CKugA
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Hey Elon. Is there any way I can get the blue-tick removed from my account?
I’m terrified people might think I’ve paid for it. Would be so embarrassing.
Thanks
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r/t Ex-Equifax CIO, who knew about huge data breach before it was made public, jailed for insider trading
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