Following a decade-long legal battle, the details of a US national security letter (NSL) sent to ISP owner Nicholas Merrill can finally be revealed.…
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Analysis Although Chancellor George Osborne recently spoke of the National Grid, hospitals and air traffic control as being potential targets of online attacks in a recent high-profile speech at GCHQ, only the financial services sector runs comprehensive stress tests.…
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Back in February, The Register queried the security and privacy implications of Mattel’s “Hello Barbie”, and now the doll has hit the shelves, a prominent security researcher has turned up the first security problems with the toy.…
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Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has reset the passwords of thousands of its customers following an apparent data breach at a third party hosting company.…
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A two-man break in at the London offices of children’s charity Plan UK has resulted in theft of five computer servers.…
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Names, home and email addresses, security questions and answers, and more information on millions of families worldwide have been swiped from a top toymaker’s database.…
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Come Sunday, the NSA will end its ferocious dragnet surveillance of American citizens’ phones, the White House insists.…
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Online takeaway service Hungryhouse has been hit by a third-party data breach and has responded by reportedly resetting the passwords of 10,000 of its customers.…
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Microsoft has killed Dell’s user-pwning root certificate and its self-reinstalling .dll with its antivirus Defender tool.…
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Dodgy developers can have their data-stealing iOS applications boosted to the top ranks of Apple’s App Store for as little as US$ 4000 thanks to services on offer by Chinese hackers.…
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It’s what we all assumed, but quietly hoped wasn’t quite this bad.…
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Hilton Worldwide has confirmed that malware found its way onto point-of-sale systems and stole payment card information.…
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Cops probing the TalkTalk mega-hack arrested a teen in south Wales on Tuesday.…
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Sysadmin Blog Researchers think they have figured out how Sony was hacked. Long story short: the hackers knew what they were doing and covered their tracks with some clever, but really basic, tricks. I’m not particularly surprised by this, but I am surprised that others are surprised by it.…
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Updated The rogue root certificate in new Dell computers – a certificate that allows people to be spied on when banking and shopping online – will magically reinstall itself even when deleted.…
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Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft’s certification management provider, Pearson VUE, has copped to a data breach following a malware compromise of its Credential Manager System.…
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UK crime tip-off service Crimestoppers has revamped its weak website crypto after months of running a system that relied upon obsolete protocols.…
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Newly revealed documents (not from Snowden this time) show that the NSA has continued to collect Americans’ email traffic en masse using overseas offices to get around curbs introduced domestically.…
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Hillary Clinton has joined a growing number of politicians using the Paris attacks earlier this month to argue for a weaker encryption.…
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Add Starwood – owner of the Sheraton, Westin, W hotel chains – to the ranks of resorts infiltrated by credit card-stealing malware.…
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The US Department of Homeland Security is running dozens of unpatched databases, some of which are rated “secret” and even “top secret,” according to an audit.…
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Competition It’s 2015, the cyber attacks keep on coming, and the bad guys appear to be winning – some may argue this is because devastating data breaches are more newsworthy than businesses upping their security defences. We see a relentless battle between businesses trying to protect themselves and those with malicious intent attacking corporate systems to cause damage or steal information.…
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Tech giants claim they are standing firm in their refusal to allow government agencies to backdoor their cryptography – or to weaken encryption in their products.…
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Comment Anti-encryption sentiment among politicians is rising following the Paris terror attacks, but Silicon Valley firms are so far resisting attempts to weaken crypto systems to allow easier access to private communications for law enforcement and intel agencies.…
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There’s a new hacking team out there that’s proving surprisingly good at getting into government systems using social engineering tactics coupled with zero-day attacks in assaults that can last as long as a year.…
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The seemingly long-defunct Blackhole Exploit Kit has resurfaced in a fresh run of drive-by download attacks, according to research carried out by security firm Malwarebytes.…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been awarded control of its namesake domain, which was being used to install malware on people’s computers.…
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Cyphort Labs researcher Nick Bilogorskiy says ransomware authors have infected some 60 Russian websites that collectively attract more than 20 million visitors a month.…
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As world powers prepare to bomb barbaric ISIS into the medieval age it so dearly craves in the wake of the Paris attacks, Anonymous too has declared war on the terror group.…
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Black Hat Europe Haroon Meer, founder of applied research company Thinkst, opened the Black Hat Europe conference last week with a keynote attacking the fashionable obsessions of the security businesses, including blind faith in Big Data and an obsession with zero-day vulnerabilities.…
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This will not be fun: the graphics processing library libpng has a vulnerability and needs to be patched.…
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Exclusive Terrible infosec practices at Niteworks, the MoD-established business networking organisation, have led to unknown attackers gaining email addresses and passwords of British defence community members.…
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The Federal Aviation Administration has warned of a dangerous escalation in laser strikes on aircraft, with Wednesday night alone registering a record 20 incidents.…
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A US IT security company says it found copies of the Conficker malware infecting police body cameras.…
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A UK man has been given eight and a half months in prison for launching a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2013.…
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CloudFlare has rolled out Universal DNSSEC, despite widespread controversy alleging it would provide an excellent platform from which intelligence agencies could spy upon and intercept global internet traffic.…
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London security researcher Paul Amar has built a tool capable of exploiting Twitter’s extended direct messaging function for covert botnet command and control.…
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Users of Ammyy Admin may have been unwittingly downloading malware along with their remote desktop software.…
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PacSec: Google’s Chrome for Android has been popped in a single exploit that could lead to the compromise of any handset.…
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F-Secure is looking to go that extra mile in consumer security with the launch of an anti-hacker appliance for the Internet of Things.…
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It’s Patch Tuesday the second day of the week in the month of November and Microsoft and Adobe have pushed out their security updates. Joining the perennial favorites Flash and Internet Explorer comes new kid on the block, Edge.…
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CheckPoint has raided the servers of a bumbling alleged Iranian hacking group using credentials hardcoded into malware, using its access to name suspected members.…
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The authors of a NIST-commended (but left on the shelf) hashing suite have put their work forward for IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) consideration.…
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GCHQ’s communications security arm, CESG, has been accused of leaving a gaping hole in the government security advisor profession by axing its accreditation scheme.…
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TalkTalk has once again attempted to downplay the seriousness of the attack on its systems by claiming on Friday morning that only four per cent of its customers – nearly 157,000 people – were affected by the security breach.…
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Security researchers have discovered “backdoored” versions of an ad library embedded in thousands of iOS apps originally published in the Apple App Store.…
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Third bathroom reading material The Economist served malware from its website via the compromised PageFair network.…
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After a crushing distributed denial-of-service attack against its servers and ISPs, secure email service ProtonMail has paid the ransom demanded by its attackers.…
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The US state of Georgia is delving into a claim that a misplaced electronic ballot box may have swung a key vote.…
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Scandi finance house Swedbank has been hit by a DDoS attack, which has taken down access to online banking via its website.…
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US broadband watchdog the FCC has fined Cox Communications $ 595,000 (£391,000, AU$ 832,000) after a Lizard Squad hacker swiped its customer records.…
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TalkTalk is trying and failing to mend its broken customer relationships following the recent mega breach, in one case offering an individual who had £3,500 stolen from his personal bank account just £30.20 as a “good will gesture [and] final settlement” by way of compensation.…
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A secret database of citizens’ personal lives and habits isn’t explicitly spelled out in the UK’s latest surveillance law. No, instead, it’s described as a set of “request filters.”…
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Underground cybercrooks are selling digital certificates that allow code signing of malicious instructions, creating a lucrative and expanding cottage industry in the process, according to new research from threat intelligence firm InfoArmor.…
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Mozilla has released Firefox 42 and Firefox ESR 38 38.4, which include fixes for worrying security vulnerabilities in the web browser.…
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Security for the Internet of Things is largely notable for its absence, so it’s refreshing see Apple developers taking the business of securing apps on Apple’s newly unveiled smart TVs seriously.…
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Two chaps claim to have discovered how to trivially circumvent Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) using Redmond’s own compatibility tools.…
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The Chaos Computer Club is claiming that Apple has rejected an app that would stream security talks from its Chaos Communications Congress event because researchers there have previously hacked iOS.…
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Open source luminary Ian Jackson has hit back at criticism of the Xen Project’s security.…
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Police across Europe have raided homes of suspected users of Droidjack, a strain of Android malware.…
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