Amongst the usual collection of data breaches news this week, a couple of articles pointing at trust issues surfaced highlighting quite innocent situations that could harbour a future problem. The classic scenario this week is using open public connection and in this case, when renting a holiday property.
- AirbnBreach: How Networks At Short-Term Rentals Are Wide Open To Attack New age of community lodging opens the door for old-school network hacks, putting hosts and guests at risk of cyberattacks and stolen personal information.
- Fear My $50 Mobile Charger, For It Controls Your Android’s Keyboard (Forbes)
The last of our highlighted articles is possibly the dumbest ransomware we have featured. Usually the ransomware will lock your files somehow and ask for payment to unlock them but in this case the files are just being deleted.
Other news of course……
Holiday rentals, the infosec risk you never thought of… (Web Security News 15/07/2016)
