Ruskie ICS hacker drops nine holes in popular Siemens power plant kit Secure Hunter

WinCC HMI control platform used in Natanz, Large Hadron Collider.

Ilya Karpov of Russian security outfit Positive Technologies has reported nine vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control system kit used in critical operations from petrochemical labs and power plants up to the Large Hadron Collider.…

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Jailbreaking pirates popped in world’s largest iCloud raid Secure Hunter

Cheaters, tweakers, hackers and crackers torn up by nasty Cydia bundle.

The largest Apple credential raid in history has seen nearly a quarter of a million accounts compromised by malware targeting app pirates.…

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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted Secure Hunter

Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word

The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…

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Spaniard claims WWII WAR HERO pigeon code crack. Explain please Secure Hunter

Come on, give it up and let Speckled Jim rest in peace

A 22-year old Spaniard claims that he’s cracked a previously unsolved WWII coded message. Others have claimed this before and there’s nothing particularly solid to back up the latest effort, but let’s have a look at it anyway.…

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Drum roll, please …. Results are in for the collective noun for security vulns Secure Hunter

It’s a fix! A security fix!

We’ve closed the poll, and the results for our attempts to weed out candidates for a collective noun for security vulnerabilities are in.…

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Uber pulls up to the bumper, poaches infosec bods from Twitter and IOActive Secure Hunter

Make driver-free cars more secure? Good luck with that!

Uber has hired two security researchers as it shifts gears on its biz strategy with plans to develop driver-free cars.…

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Associated Press sues FBI for impersonating its site to install spyware Secure Hunter

Meanwhile, the EFF learns: in Russia, government malware pwns you!

The Associated Press is suing the FBI over allegations government agents used a fake news story to plant malware on the PCs of suspected criminals.…

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Manchester skeptics annexed in hostile digital power grab Secure Hunter

Meetup.com takeover by mysterious ‘Sophie’ reveals flaws in site organisation rules

The Greater Manchester Skeptics Society (GMSS) has been obliged to start up a new group on Meetups.com, after someone with a very different agenda took over its profile on the social networking site.…

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BitTorrent kills bug that turns networks into a website-slaying weapon Secure Hunter

Reflective technique would let attacker amplify traffic and flood targets

BitTorrent has fixed a flaw in its technology that quietly turns file-sharing networks into weapons capable of blasting websites and other internet servers offline.…

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Security for those who know they can’t win the security war Secure Hunter

Because nothing beats jail time. Or a spanner

In a post-Snowden world most IT people are painfully aware that most of us would not win a fight against a well-funded organisation, or government, that wants the data on your network, laptop or device.…

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You’re hosting Uncle Sam’s files in the cloud. You get hacked. This is what happens next Secure Hunter

New rules for IT providers

The US government has posted a new set of rules outlining how cloud providers should report IT security cockups that involve Uncle Sam’s data.…

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Ashley Madison hacked potential competitor, leaked emails suggest Secure Hunter

Dating website WLTM vulnerable younger site for flirtation, contents of database

Ashley Madison ran a hack attack against a potential competitor three years ago, according to leaked emails.…

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What Ashley Madison did and did NOT delete if you paid $19 – and why it may cost it $5m+ Secure Hunter

Owner ALM now sued in California as well as Canada

Add a multimillion-dollar US class-action lawsuit to the growing number of court battles facing the owner of the hacked Ashley Madison website.…

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SMEs in the firing line as fake invoice scams skyrocket Secure Hunter

Fraudsters make hay while sun shines and accounts staff go on holiday

UK small businesses need to be on heightened alert for fake invoices, following an alarming increase in this type of scam in the first six months of 2015.…

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Body-worn cameras a ‘Pandora’s Box’ says ex Vic Police chief Nixon Secure Hunter

Cameras sow ‘lack of trust’ within public.

Gartner: The Former police commissioner for the Australian state of Victoria, Christine Nixo, says body-worn cameras are a ‘Pandora’s Box’ that cause more problems than they fix.…

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Samsung smart fridge leaves Gmail logins open to attack Secure Hunter

Failures in exploit discovery process are cold comfort for IoT fridge owners

Security researchers have discovered a potential way to steal users’ Gmail credentials from a Samsung smart fridge.…

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Telstra News spews banking trojan after malvertising attack Secure Hunter

Not Teltra’s fault, but not a good look for the Big T either

Australia’s dominant telco, Telstra, has been serving one of the world’s most dangerous hacking tools after its news site was infected with malvertising.…

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US military says it will discipline Ashley Madison users Secure Hunter

Conduct unbecoming of a gentleman/woman

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the military will investigate email addresses signed up to the Ashley Madison website to determine if improper conduct has taken place.…

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Want security? Next-gen startups show how old practices don’t cut it Secure Hunter

Stop hackers from walking on the eggshells protecting your datacenter

Sysadmin Blog  In case you hadn’t noticed, IT security sucks. There is a chronic lack of people trained in IT security, people who will listen to IT security, and even a lack of agreement on how best to go about IT security. Fortunately, a new generation of startups are helping to tackle the issues.…

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Ashley Madison hack – Tory MP Green denies registering account Secure Hunter

Married former Police Minister says ‘nothing to do with me’

Ex-Tory bigwig Damian Green has got caught up in the hack of AshleyMadison.com after it emerged a private email address seemingly linked to him was found on the site for love rats.…

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Dating gets even more dangerous after PlentyOfFish suffers tainted ads Secure Hunter

Browser vulnerabilities and unpatched Flash flaws set the stage

Miscreants managed to squirt malware at users of dating site PlentyOfFish after planting malicious code in tainted ads.…

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Collective noun search for security vulns moves into beta testing Secure Hunter

Cyber, nest or hatstand? VOTE now for your favourite

The recent rash of Android vulnerabilities has made it clear that a new collective noun for such flaws, and possibly a separate one for security bugs in general, is required.…

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Ex-Prez Bush, Cheney sued for email, phone spying during Olympics Secure Hunter

Former mayor of Salt Lake City personally heads class-action lawsuit over winter games

Ex-US president George W Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and senior law enforcement officials have been named in a class-action lawsuit for authorizing blanket phone, email, and text message surveillance of Utah citizens during the 2002 Winter Olympics.…

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Show us your security chops with the Cyber 10K challenge Secure Hunter

Students! Security amateurs! Beat the professionals and win £10,000

Competition  NCC Group has devised a lovely cyber security competition, Cyber 10K, which sees the winning contestant receive £10,000 and expert advice from the company to develop their own security solution.Enter and find out more here.…

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Former USAAF chief lands HP Security tour in Oz Secure Hunter

Take half a day out to cut your incident recovery time

Promo  HP will be deploying its security big guns over Australia next month, in the shape of its upcoming Security Innovation Tour featuring former US Air Force head of Cyber Security Earl Matthews.…

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Mumsnet founder ‘swatted by misogynist griefers’ Secure Hunter

@DadSecurity creep responsible for DDoS… and swatting?

Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts and another user were both targeted in swatting attacks at the apex of a series of hack attacks that may have led to the compromise of user logins at the high-profile, UK-based parenting site.…

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Adulterers antsy as ‘entire’ Ashley Madison database leaks online Secure Hunter

9.6GB of files seeded out – this could get nasty

Hackers at the Impact Team have apparently carried out their threat to publish the customer database of Ashley Madison – a hookup website designed for those who want to cheat on their partners.…

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You CAN’T jail online pirates for 10 years legal eagles warn UK govt Secure Hunter

Public consultation earns plans an unstintingly scathing attack from lawyers

The UK government plan to jail online copyright pirates for up to 10 years has been attacked by legal boffins in a public consultation that ended yesterday.…

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IRS: Tax-record snaffle scam actually 200% worse than first feared Secure Hunter

100,000 people’s details slurped? No, what we meant to say was 334,000

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted Monday that the May scam in which criminals tried to use stolen data on more than 114,000 people to collect tax information was far larger than it originally thought.…

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Botched Google Stagefright fix won’t be resolved until September Secure Hunter

Researchers tell Chocolate Factory to get its gingerbread house in order

According to security company Rapid7, Google needs to rethink how it patches Android in the wake of initial botched attempts to resolve the Stagefright vulnerability.…

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China laments ‘wild guesses and malicious slurs’ on state hacking Secure Hunter

President Xi Jinping is on his way to Washington and diplomats are sniping

Chinese president Xi Jinping visits the USA in September, a visit expected to be afforded all the pomp and ceremony of a top-level bilateral leader’s meeting.…

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Use QuickTime … and become part of the collective Secure Hunter

Malformed .MOV files can murder your movies

Two Borg assimilators have discovered five denial of service vulnerabilities in Apple’s QuickTime.…

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Kaspersky Lab denies tricking AV rivals into nuking harmless files Secure Hunter

Russian biz allegedly tried to hoodwink competitors with legit Windows executables

Kaspersky Lab deliberately fed bogus malware to its rivals to sabotage their antivirus products, two anonymous former employees allege. Kaspersky says the accusations are false.…

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I’ve seen Kaspersky slap his staff with a walrus penis – and even I doubt the false-positive claims Secure Hunter

Even his rivals fear this is a smear

Comment  Eugene Kaspersky is a complex character and capable of many things, but Friday’s allegations that he ordered staff to deliberately sabotage rival antivirus packages smells fishy.…

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You’ve been Drudged! Malware-squirting ads appear on websites with 100+ million visitors Secure Hunter

eBay, Drudge Report, etc inadvertantly carry evil adverts

Internet lowlives who used Yahoo! ads to infect potentially countless PCs with malware have struck again – using adverts on popular websites to reach millions more people.…

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Salesforce plugs silly website XSS hole, hopes nobody spotted it Secure Hunter

Web development 101: Thou shalt stop thy users from inputting JavaScript

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on Salesforce’s website might have been abused to pimp phishing attacks or hijack user accounts. Fortunately the bug has been resolved, apparently before it caused any harm.…

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Have an iPhone? Mac? Just about anything else Apple flogs? Patch now Secure Hunter

Massive update addresses iOS, OS X, and Safari security holes

Apple has issued a huge wad of updates to address dozens of CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in iOS, OS X Yosemite, Safari, and OS X Server.…

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Misconfigured Big Data apps are leaking data like sieves Secure Hunter

Bank and health info included in more than a petabyte of files left lying around

More than a petabyte of data lies exposed online because of weak default settings and other configuration problems involving enterprise technologies.…

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CAUGHT: Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops – by hiding it in the BIOS Secure Hunter

And how Microsoft made it possible

Analysis  Lenovo has sold laptops bundled with unremovable software that features a bonus exploitable security vulnerability.…

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Is this the most puzzling DEF CON attendee badge yet on record? Secure Hunter

Marvel at the mysteries of this playable poser

DEF CON 23  Attending the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas is always an unusual experience, but among the most celebrated features of the event are its unusual attendee badges.…

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Want to harvest Facebook data? Get a mobile number and off you go Secure Hunter

‘EVERYTHING FINE’ insists Zuck’s ad empire

Hackers and other miscreants are able to access names, telephone numbers, images and location data in bulk from Facebook, using only a mobile phone number.…

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Ten years after the sellout, Black Hat is solidly corporate and that’s fine Secure Hunter

DEF CON is hopefully never going to change

Analysis  When Jeff Moss sold the Black Hat security conference to CMP a decade ago for around $ 13m (£8.3m), he faced a barrage of abuse from some members of the hacker community as a sellout. They were a little bit right, and a lot wrong, as this year’s cons have shown.…

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Hackers hid Carphone Warehouse breach with DDoS smokescreen – report Secure Hunter

Crims aim to cause just enough chaos to get in and out

Hackers reportedly swamped Carphone Warehouse with junk traffic as a smokescreen, before breaking into systems and stealing the personal details of 2.4m customers.…

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Another day, another stunning security flaw in Android – this time hitting 55% of mobes Secure Hunter

Bug allows ordinary apps to gain control of gadgets

Video  Fresh from sorting out the Stagefright flaw, Google has another serious security vulnerability in Android on its hands.…

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Borg blacklist assimilates Cryptolocker domain name generators Secure Hunter

Scrabble dictionary used to out randomly-generated malware-hosting domain names

Cisco has developed a means to accurately identify the fleeting pop-up domains used by some of the world’s worst malware.…

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Ubiquiti stung US$46.7 million in e-mail spoofing fraud Secure Hunter

Hi! UbiquitiCEO@gmail.com here. Really is me! Please send cash from Hong Kong to here!

Ubiquiti Networks has been defrauded of more than US$ 46 million by scammers who spoofed its communications.…

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It’s incredibly easy to bump someone off online, and here’s how to do it – infosec bod Secure Hunter

Making fake babies is child’s play, too

DEF CON 23  Most of us have had occasional fantasies about killing someone. Now, as governments demand more personal information from citizens online, it has apparently become surprisingly easy to turn that fantasy into a reality, at least on paper – courtesy of some glaring loopholes.…

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Carphone Warehouse coughs to MONSTER data breach – 2.4 MEELLION Brits at risk Secure Hunter

Credit card info of 90,000 users may have been nicked

Carphone Warehouse has taken three days to go public about a serious data breach affecting nearly 2.5 million customers – with the confession that up to 90,000 subscribers may have had their credit card info ransacked.…

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Hack a garage and the car inside with a child’s toy and a few chips Secure Hunter

Turns out jalopy security is pretty sloppy

DEF CON 23  Last month, pro hacker Samy Kamkar caused a kerfuffle at General Motors when he successfully hacked the car giant’s RemoteLink mobile app to unlock and start vehicles, and now he’s explained how it’s done – and how to get into the garage that houses a target car.…

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Email addresses in DNS records? We’ll make a hash of it, says IETF Secure Hunter

DANE cooks in one-way encryption of contact details

Email addresses of domain-name admins should be encrypted one-way – aka hashed – when added to DNS records, an IETF working group has decided.…

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Quick! Update Firefox to foil FILE-STEALING vulnerability exploit Secure Hunter

Ursi contra vulpes

Firefox users have been urged to update to browser version 39.0.3, following the discovery of a vulnerability which allows an attacker to read and steal sensitive local files on the victim’s computer via the browser’s PDF reader.…

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Ransacked US OPM wins Pwnie Award for ‘Most EPIC Fail’ Secure Hunter

Kicking a government when it’s down

Black Hat 2015  For the past nine years Black Hat has staged its Pwnie Awards, devoted to recognizing the best and worst aspects of computer security, and this year’s winner of the least welcome award is the US government’s Office of Personnel Management.…

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Popping the Telsa S bonnet – to reveal SIX NEW FLAWS Secure Hunter

More issues with computer on wheels

Security researchers have uncovered six fresh vulnerabilities with the Tesla S.…

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DNS chief and wannabe master-of-the-internet ICANN pwned… again Secure Hunter

Hashed passwords, email addresses and more exposed

ICANN says its website’s user accounts have been compromised by hackers who gained access to their names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more.…

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I could spoof Globalstar satellite messages, boasts infosec bod Secure Hunter

‘We’ve never been hacked so everything’s fine’ says hacked firm

Black Hat 2015  Intercepting and spoofing satellite communications carried over the Globalstar network is possible with modest technical skills and an investment of just $ 1,000, according to new research due to be unveiled at Black Hat.…

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Wait, what? TrueCrypt ‘decrypted’ by FBI to nab doc-stealing sysadmin Secure Hunter

Do the Feds know something we don’t about crypto-tool? Or did bloke squeal his password?

Discontinued on-the-fly disk encryption utility TrueCrypt was unable to keep out the FBI in the case of a US government techie who stole copies of classified military documents. How the Feds broke in isn’t clear.…

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Yahoo! ads! caught! spreading! CryptoWall! ransomware! AGAIN! Secure Hunter

Unpatched Flash holes exploited to inject file-scrambling nasty

Yahoo!‘s ad network is still being used to spread ransomware to Windows PCs a year after the last big outbreak.…

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New US cyber laws will hit privacy and security, says Homeland Security Secure Hunter

When even the DHS thinks it’s a bad idea then it must be time for a rethink

The US Department of Homeland Security is hardly what you’d think of as a bunch of whining lefties, but even this agency has come out against the proposed Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.…

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Hacktivists congratulate Daily Show’s Jon Stewart via Donald Trump’s website Secure Hunter

‘Celebrating the first openly Asshole Presidential Candidate’

Canadian hacktivists TelecomixCanada have defaced Donald Trump’s website. The message, entitled “Your Moment of Zen, Mr Stewart” is a shoutout to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show for his steady criticism of Donald Trump.…

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Mt Gox’s Mark Karpeles arrested in Japan Secure Hunter

Police move on boss of collapsed Bitcoin exchange

French-born Mark Karpeles, head of the failed Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, has been arrested in Japan.…

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Blue Coat acquires the cloud-crypto monkeys at Perspecsys Secure Hunter

Application of Cloud Access Security Broker features paramount, apparently

Controversial and suspicious netsec outfit Blue Coat Systems has acquired Perspecsys, for the want of some weight in its cloud security portfolio.…

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Bitdefender feeling a bit tender: Hackers enter anti-distemper vendor Secure Hunter

Someone gulped unencrypted login info from security biz

One or more miscreants have been able to slurp and leak usernames and passwords from Bitdefender. The unencrypted login details belonged to some of the security biz’s small business customers.…

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Wait, STOP: Are you installing Windows 10 or ransomware? Secure Hunter

This one will be an ‘absolute bastard,’ say security bods

People aren’t good at waiting for stuff, and with, computer users queueing up to download Windows 10, ransomware purveyors have started to move in.…

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