Graham Cluley @gcluley@infosec.exchange

US Dept of State says attack on email system exposed employees' personal data.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/us-dept-of-state-says-attack-on-email-system-exposed-employees-personal-data/

Another wave of sextortion emails.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/another-wave-of-sextortion-emails/

Bristol Airport says it did not pay any ransom to recover from cyber attack.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/bristol-airport-says-it-did-not-pay-any-ransom-to-recover-from-cyber-attack/

A third-party app can use Grindr to expose your exact location.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/15/grindr-location-info/

Amazon staff said to be taking bribes to leak data.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/amazon-staff-said-to-be-taking-bribes-to-leak-data/

A lot of folks don’t like that the iPhone camera sticks out. People also want longer battery life. If Jony Ive can’t work out the simple answer which solves both these problems I’m happy to offer my services.

It's a brand new episode of "Smashing Security" podcast!

Malicious script is being blamed for the British Airways hack, Trend Micro's apps are booted out of the Mac App Store for snaffling private data, and Paul Manafort's daughter wants Twitter to remove a link.

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Wait! Apple has killed off the iPhone SE??? :-(

I've been recommending that one to friends and family for years. That was the best iPhone!

Wombats.

I guess I'll have to wait another year for Apple to come up with a technological breakthrough like a headphone jack...

TV License website said it was secure. It wasn't

https://www.grahamcluley.com/tv-license-website/

Trend Micro apologises after Mac apps found scooping up users' browser history.

(apparently it's the users' fault anyway...)

https://www.grahamcluley.com/trend-micro-apologises-after-mac-apps-found-scooping-up-users-browser-history/

Some of the most popular iOS App Store apps are selling your location data onto other businesses

https://guardianapp.com/ios-app-location-report-sep2018.html

"We requested our personal information from dozens of companies. Here’s what they gave us -- and what they didn’t."

https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/04/who-controls-your-data/

Trend Micro responds to claims its apps in the Mac App Store were snaffling up users’ browser history

https://blog.trendmicro.com/answers-to-your-questions-on-our-mac-apps-store/

Hackers Can Steal a Tesla Model S in Seconds by Cloning Its Key Fob.

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-steal-tesla-model-s-seconds-key-fob/

Law firm launches £500 million group action over British Airways hack

https://www.grahamcluley.com/law-firm-launches-500-million-group-action-over-british-airways-hack/

The birdsite has permanently banned Alex Jones and InfoWars.

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1037804427992686593

British Airways hacked - customer data and details of 380,000 card payments stolen

https://www.grahamcluley.com/british-airways-hacked-customer-data-and-details-of-380000-card-payments-stolen/

How to manipulate Apple's podcast charts, and get yourself a top-rated show.

https://www.grahamcluley.com/how-to-manipulate-apples-podcast-charts-and-get-yourself-a-top-rated-show/

Someone at the White House wrote an anonymous op-ed for the NYT criticising #Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

They used the word "lodestar". (Not a word that commonly used, I'd wager.)

But there is someone at the White House who does use it in speeches...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/search/?s=lodestar

Opsec anyone?