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The crooks now know who you are, where you live, which computers are yours, where you go online… and they got those password vaults, too.

Here’s a video—I don’t know where it’s from—of an injured juvenile male giant squid grabbing on to a paddleboard.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled them to reorder the taxis on the list; they charged taxi drivers $10 to cut the line.

The FBI warns that cyber-criminals are impersonating brands through purchasing ad services in order to lure users to malicious websites

In its largest fine of 2022, France’s privacy watchdog has fined US tech giant €60m for foisting advertising cookies on users

Auto-warranty campaign made billions of calls

Intellectual Property Office says it breaks copyright law

Staff told to work from home after compromise

A team of researchers came up with an ingenuous method leveraging AI to detect and classify malware in IIoT devices

Join world-renowned expert Fraser Howard, Director of Research at SophosLabs, for this fascinating episode on how to fight cybercrime.