Apple has released a series of security updates to address 77 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in OS X Yosemite.…
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A team of five researchers from universities in London and Rome have identified that 14 of the top commercial virtual private servers in the world leak IP data.…
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A trio of Intel boffins have broken a vendor lock-down on trusted execution environments (TEEs) with the release of an open source framework that could help developers to build more secure apps.…
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Franco-American relations have taken a further hammering on Monday after WikiLeaks revealed new documents showing that the NSA has been collecting the details of commercial deals in the Land of Brie for over a decade and sharing them with its allies.…
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A Sophos Web Appliance update has crashed users’ PC fleets including knocking offline the Australian call centre of a global company for two days after support was quietly revoked for SSL 3.0 ciphers used in Citrix Receiver.…
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We really, really, really mean it this time: take SSL3 and bury it.…
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Botnet slaughterer Brian Wallace has created a module to detect when attackers are using the popular browser-busting BeEF hacking framework.…
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A malware development squad is so determined to thwart meddling white hat researchers that it has produced a trojan riddled with obfuscation techniques and neurotic encryption.…
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Charles Brookson – the man behind the encryption algorithms in GSM mobile networks – has collected his OBE from the Queen.…
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James Clapper, Director of the US’ National Intelligence body, has suggested Beijing is behind the successful attacks on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which resulted in the theft of millions of federal employees’ (including intelligence workers) highly sensitive biographies.…
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Sir Mark Waller, the Intelligence Services Commissioner, has delivered his fourth annual report to the Prime Minister, revealing that GCHQ’s internal monitoring system slurped up its own employees’ privates to an unauthorised degree.…
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A red-faced Cisco has pushed out a patch for a bunch of virtual security appliances that had hard-coded SSH keys.…
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Nobody can accuse trojan coders of being lazy; the masterminds behind the Dyre banking malware are putting in full five-day working weeks to maintain some 285 command and control servers handling stolen banking credentials.…
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Samsung computer users could find themselves wide open to attack because the software the Korean giant bundles on its systems disables Windows Update.…
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Get patching: Google Project Zero hacker Mateusz Jurczyk has dropped 15 remote code execution vulnerabilities, including a single devastating hack against Adobe Reader and Windows he reckons beats all exploit defences.…
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America’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has joined the hunt for the FIN4 hacking group.…
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The Register has discovered that the unspecified IT attack which left 1,400 passengers of LOT Polish Airlines stranded in Warsaw was a simple DDoS issue, which had so impeded the airline’s connection that it could not produce its flight plans in time for take offs.…
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Uber’s smartphone app will soon track and report back the whereabouts of its users even when they’re not using the software, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) now fears.…
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An unspecified IT attack has left 1,400 passengers of Polish flag carrier LOT Polish Airlines stuck in Warsaw, after the company discovered it was unable to file flight plans for its departing aircraft.…
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Reckless sys admins rejoice: entrepreneurial security bod Ben Murphy has created a daring quick patch for the popular Redis data structure server.…
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Samsung has promised to deploy updates to resolve a serious mobile keyboard snooping bug, with security policy fixes expected in the coming days, the company said on Thursday – while simultaneously downplaying the issue.…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has pushed out its fifth annual “Who Has Your Back” report, claiming to chart tech companies’ commitment to “the next frontier of user privacy”.…
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Your encryption keys can accidentally leak from your PC via radio waves, computer scientists have reminded us this week. This is a well-understood risk, but as these guys have demonstrated, it can be done cheaply with consumer-grade kit, rather than expensive lab equipment.…
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Symantec has warned about a new password recovery scam that tricks users into handing over webmail account access, possibly setting the stage for more serious security issues.…
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Microsoft’s privacy and surveillance policy micro-site has been hacked to promote gambling sites.…
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ERPScan technology boss Alexander Polyakov says default security settings are exposing passwords and root keys in SAP HANA to external attackers.…
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WEBCAST Register now to watch our live Regcast, where we look at why the human factor is an important internet security risk.…
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The Debian Project thinks it’s fixed an issue where Google’s Chromium web browser snuck proprietary code into the fiercely Free Software oriented Debian Linux distro. That hasn’t stopped Debian users from wondering how the issue got past project maintainers in the first place.…
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Online banking trojan Swatbanker has been brought into play in a second round of attacks against the German Bundestag, reports security software firm G DATA.…
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The boss of the US government’s thoroughly ransacked Office of Personnel Management has – rightly – come in for a rough ride from members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.…
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Last month’s MacKeeper vulnerability is now being exploited in the wild to hijack Apple machines, according to BAE security researcher Sergei Shevchenko.…
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Australia needs a bunch more experts in disciplines you’re barely allowed to discuss here, according to the Australian Federal Police.…
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Uber has pulled its petition sites offline after a hacker exploited web vulnerabilities lodging 100,000 fake votes and redirecting visitors to rival Lyft.…
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The Wikimedia Foundation has decided the time is right to implement HTTPS on all its projects, for all users, all the time.…
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The overlooked task of patching PC BIOS and UEFI firmware vulnerabilities leaves corporations wide open to attack, a new paper by security researchers warns.…
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Analysis If the latest reports are true and Chinese hackers have managed to pilfer as much data about US government employees in sensitive positions as is thought, the Obama administration may be headed for a serious intelligence crisis.…
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In response to this week’s data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management, the White House has ordered federal agencies to immediately deploy state-of-the-art anti-hacker defenses – things like installing security patches, and not giving everyone the admin password.…
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A second data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management has compromised even more sensitive information about government employees than the first breach that was revealed earlier this week, sources claim. It’s possible at least 14 million Americans have chapter and verse on their lives leaked, we’re told.…
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A malware infestation at the Bundestag is proving harder to clean up than first predicted, with several unconfirmed local reports going as far as suggesting that techies might have to rebuild the entire network from scratch.…
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The Belgian arrests of terror suspects on Monday were reportedly facilitated by decryption of WhatsApp user chats.…
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The response to multiple threats faced by the UK “depends on entrusting public bodies with the powers they need to identify suspects”, said David Anderson QC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, in his long-awaited review of the country’s anti-terrorism laws, while giving GCHQ no reason to stop mass-surveillance.…
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Russians may have posed as ISIS in a high-profile hack against a French TV channel, according to French investigators and security firms.…
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An Indian security blogger was hit with a gagging order by an Israeli firm after he linked its technology to a sneaky ad injection by his ISP.…
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The travelling side-show of industrial control kit insecurity continues, with an outfit called Red Lion being called out for hard-coded credentials on a wireless access point.…
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Email and hosting biz Freeparking has run into yet more trouble after being hit by a DDoS attack today.…
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The elusive hacking group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has claimed it is behind the defacement of US military websites on Monday.…
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Amnesty International UK has launched a campaign to get President Obama to drop the espionage charges against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.…
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Comment Reports that private clouds are dead are greatly exaggerated.…
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Medieval butcher bastards ISIS are adept at using the web to lure Western followers to their warped cause – but the internet can turn around and bite back.…
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Analysis The US government has rewritten chunks of an obscure weapons trade pact between itself, Europe, Russia, and other nations – a pact that is now casting its shadow over today’s computer security tools.…
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A New York man was robbed at gunpoint of $ 1,110 worth of Bitcoin.…
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Brabantia, the Dutch company most well known for making steel bins, has been hacked within the last 24 hours, and customer details may have been exposed.…
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Edward Snowden made off with 900,000 government documents, around half of what was originally reported, say newly released government filings.…
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Infosec 2015 John McAfee delivered a surprisingly non-controversial keynote speech to the London Infosec Conference on Wednesday afternoon, lauding the value of privacy, doing so – to the concern of his bewildered audience – whilst seemingly tickling himself through the cloth of his pocket.…
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Bring Your Own Device is problematic enough, but now staff are increasingly bringing inherently insecure, internet-connected smart devices into work, making a mockery of established security policies in the process.…
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UK data breach investigations within the financial services industry almost trebled over the last two years, according to figures acquired via a Freedom of Information request to the Information Commissioner’s Office, with human error almost always responsible.…
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Retail coupon operator Catch-of-the-Day has escaped penalty over sitting on a data breach for three years.…
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Infosec 2015 A top GCHQ official opened the Infosecurity Europe trade show in London with an on-message keynote that focused on promoting best practice rather than dealing with Edward Snowden and the ongoing controversy over the so-called Snoopers’ Charter.…
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Docker security head Diogo Mónica has crafted a defence tool to help admins protect their machine instances.…
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EE has assured a customer that a pre-installed app found on new HTC M9 from the mobile operator is simply anti-fraud software.…
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