What is ‘Humble Bundle’? Humble Bundle is a distribution platform selling games, ebooks, software, and other digital content. Since Humble’s founding in 2010, they have been supporting charity (that’s where the “Humble” comes into it) while providing packaged digital content to customers (“Bundle”). The core of the “philosophy” is flexible pricing. When you buy a bundle, you can choose the price you … Continue reading New Humble Bundle: “Hacking for the Holidays” – December 2018
Humble Bundle – December 2018
I managed to get my hands on the “Cybersecurity by Packt” humble bundle of books! Here’s what the purchase contained, and why you should keep an eye out for the next offer!
I Was Smished…
So, over the past week, I've received two quite interesting SMS phishing messages (also known as Smishing). I thought it would be worthwhile going through what I found as a result of the attempts to get my payment details, in the hope someone reads this and thinks twice about clicking unsolicited links. It happened like … Continue reading I Was Smished…
Timehop, the popular social media ’memories’ app, suffers data breach
Timehop has disclosed a security breach that has compromised the personal data (names and email addresses) of 21 million users. Around a fifth of the affected users — or 4.7M — have also had a phone number that was attached to their account breached in the attack. The service, which plugs into users’ social media accounts … Continue reading Timehop, the popular social media ’memories’ app, suffers data breach
That was an ‘Uber’ Data Breach…!
What is the Uber data breach, and how did it happen?
