I may now able to offer a little more information about the Gaelic ransomware story from last week. A screenshot here, though not exactly the same as the one described in the Donegal Daily and elsewhere, looks similar enough to be from the same source. (It has a Garda logo rather than an Irish flag, … More Ransomware Part II: not just an Irish problem
This story actually goes back a couple of days, but I was at a forensics conference in Canterbury for the past few days – in fact, that’s where the photograph below comes from – and when I did get back the ‘Irish Virus‘ story seemed a little more urgent. In any case, this isn’t so … More ATM Security? Don’t bank on it.
Well, that was a little unexpected. The Irish Times has reported the discovery of the “first Irish language virus“. (Further checking suggests that the story may have originated with the Donegal Daily.) Actually, it sounds less like a virus – there’s no indication of whether it self-replicates – than the kind of ransomware that we’ve … More Irish Ransomware Report
Identification info on millions of iPhone and iPad users has been leaked to the internet, allegedly from FBI’s computers. Among them are also hundreds of Irish names. The hacker group Anti-sec, a branch of the Anonymous movement, recently claimed it holds 12 million Apple device IDs (UDID), push notification IDs and names of iPhone and … More Is FBI spying on Irish iPhone and iPad users?
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