Verisign is throwing its hat into the “free DNS” ring, promising not to retain information about recursive requests to its just-launched service.…
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Many (45 per cent) of workers say they could access a former employer’s systems through old, unchanged passwords, according to a survey by password management outfit Dashlane.…
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Defense contractor Raytheon said it will be providing IT security for more than 100 US government agencies in a deal valued at upwards of $ 1bn.…
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US presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina has boasted that HP sold the NSA servers that allowed the agency to build a system for mass surveillance.…
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Is Windows 10 spying on you by grabbing all sorts of personally identifying data about you without your permission? Not at all, claims Redmond.…
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The Saudi Arabian government came close to buying a majority stake in Italian surveillance software firm Hacking Team last year.…
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An Obama administration working group mulled four mechanisms for breaking the encrypted smartphones of terrorist and criminal suspects before rejecting them all as too politically fraught or impractical.…
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An ongoing malvertising campaign that began in August by targeting Yahoo.com, MSN.com and other websites visited by millions of people has expanded to hit smut sites as well.…
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The enormous scale of GCHQ’s surveillance was revealed on Friday by newly published Snowden documents. The files note the growth in capabilities enjoyed by the UK government’s snoopers since intercepting communications in bulk from 2007.…
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US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have announced an cyber-peace deal in which neither side will engage in commercial spying online.…
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Someone has hacked the Hilton’s sales registers, and made off with guests’ credit-card details, it’s claimed. The hotel chain confirmed today it is investigating the alleged breach of its computer security.…
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New documents revealing GCHQ’s mass-surveillance activities have detailed an operation codenamed KARMA POLICE, which slurped up the details of “every visible user on the Internet”.…
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The Feds can’t make suspects give up their company-issued smartphone passcodes because doing so violates the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.…
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Spam emails disguised as messages from local post offices – but actually packing the latest variant of the CryptoLocker ransomware – are being flung at surfers in Scandinavia.…
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Australia’s national spy agency has been credited with its first public vulnerability disclosure after reporting a remote code execution vulnerability in an HP Autonomy component.…
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Pope Francis – who landed in the US on Tuesday to bring salvation to those suffering through Cupertino’s malefic advertising – is the subject of considerable cybersecurity concern. We cannot say whether this is a coincidence or not.…
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India will rethink its hardline proposals to clampdown on encryption.…
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Mobile merchant terminal company iZettle has warned its users that the Bluetooth issues within Apple’s operating system could seriously affect payment processes, and has strongly warned merchants using its kit not to upgrade to iOS9 until it says so.…
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In April, the South Korean government insisted that smartphones owned by children must have software that protects the innocent little snowflakes from looking at stuff online that might harm them or steal their personal information.…
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Cyberattacks from Russia have increased because of sanctions related to the Ukraine while assaults from Iran have dropped over recent months, thanks to the recent Iran nuclear deal.…
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Vodafone Australia’s data access scandal has escalated towards blood-in-the-boardroom levels, with accusations that its abuse of a journalist’s data in 2011 went on longer than the company has admitted.…
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You can crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL.…
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Spyware is targeting users of the Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars online games – and it is said to allow cheats to get a sneaky advantage over honest players.…
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Cloudsec Yesteryear’s hack of Sony Pictures was an act of war, stated FBI Supervisory Special Agent Timothy Wallach, who delivered the FBI’s gradation system of cybercriminals to net security conference Cloudsec on Thursday, 17 September.…
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Updated Taiwanese networking kit maker D-Link leaked a private code-signing key onto the internet for anyone to download.…
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The use of “flawless Dutch phrases” has seen two suspects, thought to be behind the spread of the CoinVault ransomware, arrested in the The Netherlands, in a case where security software firms offered technical knowhow to the Dutch police.…
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Cloudsec The UK’s National Crime Agency – Blighty’s equivalent of the FBI – wants its staff to “colocate” with private-sector IT security companies around the world. In other words, investigators and infosec employees placed alongside each other to sniff out cyber-criminals.…
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Security researchers have shone the spotlight on an ongoing campaign by Russian cyberspies to snoop on western governments and NGOs, as well as targets in Georgia, using the Dukes malware.…
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The Obama Administration is weighing whether to come out in full support of encryption, something that would be a huge blow to the Feds, who have been pushing for a compulsory backdoor in all new tech.…
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An Office of the Inspector General audit into the US Department of Homeland Security has identified a range of deficiencies across the agency, which is responsible for America’s cybersecurity.…
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If you’ve got an Android 5.0 smartphone with anything but the very latest version of Lollipop on it, it’s best to use a PIN or pattern to secure your lock-screen – because there’s a trivial bypass for its password protection.…
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Engineers at Xerox PARC have developed a prototype chip capable of self-destructing upon command.…
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The FBI has decided that your Things are too risky to be allowed anywhere on the Internet.…
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Special feature I was 17 years old, I had nothing to do, and I wanted to teach myself programming. So I decided to write a computer virus.…
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Australia’s opposition, the Australian Labor Party (ALP), is hoping to bring the country into line with the UK and other jurisdictions with a ban on revenge porn.…
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A “Walter Mitty” IT manager from Milton Keynes who bought a gun on the dark web has pleaded guilty to firearms offences.…
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Cyber-attacks against the US by Iranian hackers have eased noticeably since the countries’ landmark nuclear weapons accord, National Security Agency director Michael Rogers has said.…
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Vulture nybbles Google has emitted its first monthly batch of security updates for the latest version of Android – as promised in early August.…
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Developers of encrypted databases and security researchers are at loggerheads – and it’s over a study that claims property-preserving encrypted databases may be vulnerable to attack.…
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Tech support scammers have mocked up a web page with an even more dire version of Microsoft’s infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) error page.…
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Health insurance company Excellus said hackers broke into its servers and may have made off with the personal details of 10.5 million people.…
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FireEye researchers Genwei Jiang and Josiah Kimble say attackers from North Korea exploited a zero day vulnerability in a word processor popular with the South Korea’s government.…
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Australia will establish a National Facial Biometric Matching Capability “to allow law enforcement and security agencies to match one photograph of an unknown person against many photographs contained in government records to help establish their identity.”…
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CAPTCHA-busting malware wormed its way into apps hosted on Google Play, reaping up to US$ 250,000 from infected victims.…
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The web version of phone chat app WhatsApp – yes, there’s a web version – allowed internet lowlives to fire off malware at people’s PCs, apparently.…
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Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…
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A “ten minute search” by a security bod has provided some hints about the coding errors that might lie behind the now-infamous Ashley Madison hack.…
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If the Ashley Madison saga has taught us one thing – well, many things, but one main thing – it was never, ever, ever use a work email account for personal pursuits online.…
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has recalled nearly 8,000 SUVs, with the hope of halting hackers from mounting remote attacks on the vehicles.…
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has recalled nearly 8,000 SUVs, with the hope of halting hackers from mounting remote attacks on the vehicles.…
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It’s a week since – with some prescience – we launched a poll to find out who, in the wide world of IT and beyond, might be man (or woman) enough to rescue troubled infidelity site Ashley Madison.…
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fired a second shot at the FBI over its demand for backdoors in encryption systems.…
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Hackers have known about unpublicized and unpatched critical security holes in the Firefox web browser for a year or more – all by invading Mozilla’s systems.…
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PDF The NSA has revealed for the first time in public how it handles and reports critical unpatched security flaws its snoopers discover in software.…
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A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week.…
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The Cold War has reached out a long-dead hand to stifle the Pwn2Own hackfest in Tokyo, with the Wassenaar Arrangement blamed for the event’s cancelation.…
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Web hosting provider Servint has been hit by a network outage, reportedly due to a DDoS attack.…
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One of the individuals who first brought the Internet to Australia, Geoff Huston, has unloaded on the federal government’s chaotic attempt to introduce its data retention regime.…
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Russian anti-malware firm Dr.Web tested rivals to see if they blindly accepted malware reports shared through cross-industry intelligence systems like Kaspersky Lab, according to investigative reporter Brian Krebs. However, Dr.Web stopped short of using services such as VirusTotal to trip up rivals, the focus of fiercely contested allegations against Kaspersky Lab.…
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Nearly three months after the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) discovered its databases had been compromised by Chinese hackers, the government still hasn’t notified the employees and contractors affected by the breach.…
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Embattled adultery website Ashley Madison has launched a rearguard action, claiming new sign-ups and more female members in the aftermath of July’s megahack.…
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