ESET Ireland warns of a fake phishing email, requesting users to “update account”. ESET Ireland has been seeing an increased amount of a new fake email, which claims to come from an email provider and asks the receiver to click a link and “update account recovery information” using their actual email address as bait and … More Email phishing Irish mail addresses
Carphone Warehouse is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), after the UK high street retailer revealed that they were the victim of a major hack. The ICO, which is the UK’s official data watchdog, said that it looking into the breach, which has affected up to 2.4 million customers. A spokesman for … More ICO investigating major data breach at Carphone Warehouse in the UK
A white hat hacker has developed a “universal remote” that is capable of unlocking the latest hi-tech cars and garages. Samy Kamkar, an independent security researcher, says his tiny radio device can bypass “rolling code” security, which keeps new cars and modern garages safe and secure. The idea behind this system is that every time you lock or … More Universal remote can ‘hack into any car’
Windows XP, as regular readers of We Live Security will know, was supposed to have breathed its last on April 8th 2014, when Microsoft stopped supporting it. It’s not as though Windows XP’s death should have come as a shock. Microsoft has been warning of its end-of-support, and the need to upgrade to a safer … More 20,000 NHS Wales PCs still running Windows XP from beyond the grave
Hackers have been taking advantage of a serious zero-day vulnerability in the latest version of Apple’s OS X (Yosemite), allowing them to install malware and adware on Macs without the need of a password or administrative privileges. Malwarebytes reported yesterday (Monday 3rd August) that one of its experts had found the first known exploit of … More Hackers exploit OS X zero-day vulnerability
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