Apple has published a temporary workaround for iPhones blighted by incoming text messages that cause them to crash and restart – and it involves asking Siri for help.…
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Belgium and the Netherlands have joined Austria and Luxembourg in getting really rather upset that German spies, er, spied on them.…
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The NSA tried to wreck North Korea’s nuclear weapons lab using the centrifuge-knackering malware Stuxnet, and ultimately failed, multiple intelligence sources claim.…
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Security researchers speaking at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam this week have demonstrated that users of hidden services on Tor are putting themselves at risk of being identified – if an attacker is willing to put in the time and resources.…
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Convicted Silk Road kingpin Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.…
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Sir Anthony May, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, has decided to stand down from the role at the end of July, short of the end of his three-year term which would have expired in December this year.…
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Service has been suspended, and passwords reset, following a hack against Indian music streaming service Ganaa.…
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SAP hackers Alexander Polyakov and Alexey Tyurin say Oracle PeopleSoft contains unpatched vulnerabilities and weaknesses that allow attackers to easily obtain admin passwords.…
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Australia’s Federal Government will this year deliver its first Cyber Security Strategy to generate ‘practical’ means to improve security including public-private partnerships.…
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The first session of the new Parliament was opened by the Queen today and, as expected, a renewed push for a Snoopers’ Charter was high on the agenda.…
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The US Internal Revenue Service said on Tuesday that info including tax returns and income forms for some 100,000 people were illegally accessed this year.…
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Cybercrooks have launched a new wave of Android ransomware that poses as a pretty convincing FBI-imposed porn-surfing warning.…
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ESET researcher Lukas Stefanko says a whopping 2.8 million users have downloaded malicious Minecraft Android applications.…
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Research by American and Israeli academics has lead to the development of Astoria, a new Tor client specifically designed to spoil spooks’ traffic analysis of the surveillance-dodging network.…
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Be afraid. The previous government’s “elite digital team” which so brilliantly borked most of Whitehall’s websites, and that failed to meet its own targets, may be put in charge of handling real money: your money.…
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US Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) wants America’s mobile networks to reveal the types of customer information they share with Uncle Sam.…
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A high-level private meeting between Silicon Valley execs, spies and others was held in the UK this month: on the agenda, the state of government surveillance, and what limits should be put on it.…
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eBay is racing to fix a second serious security flaw that may allow criminals to spread malware through files seemingly hosted by the online tat bazaar.…
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Hackers have exposed the personal details and sexual preferences of 3.9 million users of hook-up site Adult FriendFinder.…
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Using secret questions to give people access to their passwords is a terrible idea, according to a new paper from Google.…
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Security bod Jada Cyrus has compiled a ransomware rescue kit to help victims decrypt locked files and avoid paying off crooks.…
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US proposals for export controls for zero-day vulnerabilities and malware have finally been pushed forward, re-opening the fault lines of a long-running argument among security experts in the process.…
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Exclusive The Sultan of Oman’s intelligence services are spying on the local operations of British oil company Shell with the aid of controversial European tech companies, the Register has learned.…
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Six Chinese nationals acting as university professors and graduate students have been arrested on charges of stealing wireless technology from US firms and exporting it to the Middle Kingdom.…
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Google, Apple and 140 other technology companies will write to President Obama today (19 May) to reject proposals which could see the security of communications devices compromised for the sake of law enforcement access to encrypted data.…
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Cybercrooks are cooking up malware disguised as mods for the Grand Theft Auto V video game.…
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Tory Baroness Joanna Shields OBE, ex-Tech City supremo, ex-head of Bebo*, ex-head of Facebook Europe and ex-MD of Google EMEA, has been appointed minister for internet safety and security.…
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The FBI has accused a security researcher of hacking into the entertainment system of a United Airlines plane mid-flight, before causing the aircraft to temporarily fly “sideways”.…
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United Airlines is starting a bug bounty program aimed at finding flaws and errors in its web portals – but the rewards it’s offering aren’t payable in money, but in air miles.…
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A California hacker who has become an expert in cracking locks has invented a 3D-printed machine that can crack a rotary combination lock in around 30 seconds – and he’s released the plans, 3D models, and code as open source.…
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Starbucks has rebuffed claims that its mobile app has been hacked, in the wake of reports that scores of its US customers have suffered from credit card fraud.…
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Penn State University has had to take networks in its school of engineering offline after falling victim to a malware attack traced partially to China.…
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Mobile spyware firm mSpy’s database has appeared on the dark web, following an apparent hack on its systems last week.…
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A former cop and owner of the website Polygraph.com has pleaded guilty to five charges of obstruction of justice and mail fraud for teaching people how to cheat lie detector tests.…
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Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…
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Hackers have established “self-sustaining” botnets of poorly secured routers, according to DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula.…
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Transcripts of a German parliamentary inquiry into the NSA have been leaked by WikiLeaks.…
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Microsoft has put out 13 bulletins to address a total of 48 CVE-listen vulnerabilities in various products.…
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Jobs in the lucrative cyber-security sector can command salaries of $ 200,000 or more, according to a new salary survey.…
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Sicko cyber-crooks defaced the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp memorial website with images of child abuse late last week.…
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WordPress admins hoping for some feet up time after last week’s Twenty Fifteen XSS plugin vulnerability appear to have yet another vulnerability to handle.…
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When enthusiasm for a technology reaches fever pitch, as it appears to have done for Docker, it can sometimes be easy to forget that using it securely needs a lot more work than clicking on an installer and getting on with things.…
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The long-delayed “Snooper’s Charter” allowing increased interception of communications by the security services and the police is set to be introduced at last, Home Secretary Theresa May has suggested.…
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Adobe has pre-announced plans to release cross-platform security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat next Tuesday (12 May).…
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Watchdogs at the US FTC (Federal Trade Commission) have obtained a restraining order against alleged diet pill scammers.…
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A former employee of well-connected security firm Tiversa has claimed in court that the company falsified information about the severity of a data breach at a cancer laboratory that was later forced to close after a government data security investigation.…
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UK government departments still running Windows XP are now doing so entirely on their own.…
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The NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone call records may be illegal, a US federal appeals court has ruled.…
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A former NSA staffer turned security researcher is warning that bypassing typical OS X security tools is trivial.…
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Do: start rolling TLS 1.3, support TLS 1.2, and DTLS 1.2. Don’t: negotiate sessions using TLS 1, TLS 1.1, SSL 2 or SSL 3.…
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CIO Manifesto If you head up security for your organisation, you probably feel like you’re caught between know-it all techies, ignorant directors and unbending compliance regulations.…
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Updated Researchers at IOActive have been slapped with a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) gagging order a day before they planned to release information about security vulnerabilities in the kit of an as-yet unidentified vendor*.…
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An Australian man facing 25 hacking charges has fled to Europe ahead of a court hearing for his alleged involvement in an international hacking operation targeting Microsoft, Valve, Epic, and the US Army, according to reports.…
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Security researchers have developed an Android application that’s capable of alerting when other apps on a phone or tablet are covertly tracking users and connecting to ad networks.…
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Seculert CTO Aviv Raff says a nasty piece of malware linked to widespread destruction and bank account plundering has become more dangerous with the ability to evade popular sandboxes.…
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According to local media reports Thursday, German intelligence agency BND (the Bundesnachrichtendienst) has helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on the European Commission and French authorities since 2008.…
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Updated What looks like system passwords at one of London’s busiest railway stations – printed and attached to the top of a station controller’s monitor – were exposed to viewers during a BBC documentary on Wednesday night.…
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Google has been obliged to revise its Password Alert anti-phishing protection just hours after releasing it when security researchers showed how the technology was easily circumvented.…
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A law bill to mildly curb the NSA’s blanket surveillance of innocent Americans has taken an important step toward being passed.…
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Video FBI agents and US Department of Justice officials perhaps thought they were in for an easy ride during a congressional hearing on crime, terrorism and encryption. If so, they were mistaken.…
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The Mumblehard malware is turning Linux and BSD server into spam-spewing zombies.…
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