The Russian hacking crew controversially linked to hacks against the Democrat Party during the US election allegedly used Android malware to track Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 until 2016, according to new research.…
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President Barack Obama has ordered the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies in response to “malicious cyber activity and harassment” by Putin’s government for attempts to undermine the 2016 election.…
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US prosecutors have charged three Chinese men with making more than $ 4m (£3.2m) by allegedly trading on information obtained from hacking top merger and acquisition law firms.…
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Updated An information-leaking security hole in widely used email agent Exim – scheduled for repair on Christmas Day – may now be publicly patched earlier, possibly as soon as Friday.…
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How often can we say that an IT blunder might have changed the course of world history? Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst serving as outgoing US President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State became a key element in the US presidential election this year.…
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The latest update of Signal, one of the most well-regarded privacy-focused messaging applications for non-technical users, has just been revised to support a censorship circumvention technique that will make it more useful for people denied privacy by surveillance-oriented regimes.…
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US healthcare organisations, including hospitals, are increasingly vulnerable to medical device hijacks as well as the growing ransomware threat, according to a new study by security vendor TrapX.…
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Netgear has downplayed the significance of newly discovered flaws in its WNR2000 line of consumer routers.…
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One of the initiatives Apple trumpeted at its 2016 WorldWide Developer Conference was a requirement for all iOS and OS X apps in its Store to use adopt App Transport Security as of December 31st 2016.…
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The United States’ National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a “Notice and request for nominations for candidate post-quantum algorithms.”…
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Facebook’s quietly taken its SHA-1 certificates out behind the data centre with an electrified degaussing machine.…
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Malware that spreads via evil web ads and menaces broadband routers has been discovered – and it’s going to be particularly horrible for small business and home internet users, which it targets.…
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The hacked database containing the account details of more than one billion Yahoo! users is reportedly being sold for a meager $ 300,000.…
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Lynda.com, the training arm of LinkedIn, on Saturday issued email notices to about 55,000 members whose data it says has been persued by “unauthorized third party.”…
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Analysis Outgoing US President Barack Obama has promised to take action against Russia over its alleged interference in the presidential election campaign.…
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Germany’s Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (Federal Office for Information Security or BSI) has warned users to reconsider the security chops of their email providers and plugged local services in response to news a billion credentials were stolen from Yahoo!</p>…
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ANALYSIS Fallen web giant Yahoo! has been branded negligent for failing to tackle the prodigious challenge of upgrading its MD5 password security before some one billion accounts were stolen.…
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More than two dozen cheap Androids have been found to host pre-installed malicious apps capable of downloading persistent adware and making phone calls.…
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root ✔ Claims security ✔ Unpopular product with few updates ✔McAfee has taken six months to patch 10 critical vulnerabilities in its VirusScan Enterprise Linux client. And these were nasty bugs as when chained they resulted remote code execution as root.…
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360° Cyber Security Game The poster child for the green energy revolution is in ruins: its executives say they have hard evidence that China’s People’s Liberation Army stole its breakthrough technology before it could commercialise it. So now the company plans to hack back.…
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President Obama has bowed to pressure and announced a formal investigation into Russian hacking aimed at influencing the recent presidential election.…
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A security tool built for SAP systems by PricewaterhouseCoopers has turned out to have worrying security holes of its own.…
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The UK government’s first annual report on the implementation of the 2015 National Security Strategy has reaffirmed that cyber-security remains a key priority.…
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Solve the DDoS problem? No problem. We’ll just get ISPs to rewrite the internet. In this interview Ian Levy, technical director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, says it’s up to ISPs to rewrite internet standards and stamp out DDoS attacks coming from the UK. In particular, they should change the Border Gateway Protocol, which lies at the heart of the routing system, he suggests.…
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Advanced malware writers are using anti-virus exclusion lists to better target victims, researchers say.…
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Analysis The freshly passed Investigatory Powers Act, better known as the Snoopers’ Charter, is a dog’s dinner of a law. It gives virtually unrestricted powers not only to State spy organisations but also to the police and a host of other government agencies.…
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Fraudsters can guess credit card numbers in as little as six seconds per attempt thanks to security gaps in Visa’s network, academics say.…
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Russia has accused unnamed foreign spies of launching a concerted effort to undermine its domestic banking system.…
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A Texas couple is suing Toyota and one of its car dealerships after one of its staff allegedly stole saucy snaps off their cellphone and emailed them to a swingers website.…
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Microsoft hacker Itai Grady has created a tool to help protect blackhat scouts from stealing Windows credentials, an effort they hope will make network compromises harder to achieve.…
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A global research team has hacked 10 different types of implantable medical devices and pacemakers finding exploits that could allow wireless remote attackers to kill victims.…
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A former techie at Tesco Bank reckons the recent high-profile breach may be down to security shortcomings at the bank’s parent supermarket.…
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Analysis The value of distributed ledgers and blockchain tech to the financial sector has again come under the spotlight following the departure of several entities from prominent blockchain consortium R3: namely Goldman Sachs, Santander, Morgan Stanley and the National Australian Bank.…
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A petition to Parliament requesting the repeal of the Investigatory Powers Act has received the 100,000 signatures required to make Parliamanet “consider” debating the issue.…
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A broken police information system hampered efforts to protect children at risk of sexual exploitation in the UK, according to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC).…
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A smartphone app flaw has left Tesla vehicles vulnerable to being tracked, located, unlocked, and stolen.…
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Checkpoint has found an image obfuscation trick it thinks may be behind a recent massive phishing campaign on Facebook that’s distributing the dangerous Locky ransomware.…
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Microsoft should reverse its planned axing of the lauded Enhanced Mitigation Toolkit (EMET) as Windows 10 cannot yet match its level of security, according to Carnegie Mellon University CERT furniture Will Dormann.…
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Ransomware scum abusing the protocol of the popular Telegram encrypted chat app have been wrecked and their malware ransom system decrypted.…
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Updating to the latest security software, browser, and operating system provides an important defense against viruses, malware, and other online threats.
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Eir, Ireland’s largest ISP, has tens of thousands of customers with insecure ADSL2+ modems that appear to be vulnerable to remote takeover.…
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Kiwicon Not every demo at security cons goes off without a hitch: Badass hackers Ryan and Jeremy electrocuted themselves when building what could have been the first device capable of wirelessly exploiting door-opening push buttons.…
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Three men are due to appear at the Old Bailey charged with various offences linked to an investigation into the mega TalkTalk hack a year ago.…
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Robert Graham, CEO of Errata Security, on Friday documented his experience setting up a $ 55 JideTech security camera behind a Raspberry Pi router configured to isolate the camera from his home network.…
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KIWICON Hackers everywhere can now more easily compromise popular chat apps to steal users’ webcam and audio feeds using a worm framework published online – and they even have a new zero day to help the plundering.…
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Kiwicon When Dan Tentler hacked writer Kevin Roose’s Mac, his chief problem wasn’t trying to pop the shell; it was trying to rein in the hundreds of shells he spawned.…
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Analysis Security analysts have narrowed down the range of possible explanations for the Tesco Bank breach.…
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Targeted password guessing turns out to be significantly easier than it should be, thanks to the online availability of personal information, leaked passwords associated with other accounts, and our tendency to incorporate personal data into our security codes.…
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Modern Wi-Fi doesn’t just give you fast browsing, it also imprints some of your finger movements – swipes, passwords and PINs – onto the radio signal.…
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GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 are searching for would-be Qs, technically minded apprentices keen to cut their teeth working for British intelligence. Would-be tech quartermasters have until 14 November to get in their security service apprenticeship applications for this year’s scheme.…
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The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is investigating whether Microsoft abused its position in the market with Windows 10 – after Moscow-based Kaspersky complained to the watchdog and EU regulators.…
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Power of Community If Jung Hoon Lee is not the world’s best hacker, he can’t be far from the top of the dais: the 22 year-old South Korean better known as Lokihardt has an uncanny knack for finding zero-day exploits in the world’s most popular and most secure systems.…
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Tesco Bank has enlisted the help of recently established National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) following the most serious cyber-attack ever launched against a UK bank.…
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Into a world already crowded with big name alternatives to OpenSSL, an indy project could look like “yet another SSL implementation,” but Vulture South suspects there are good reasons to take a close look at the just-launched BearSSL.…
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Encrypted SMS and voice app Signal has passed a security audit with flying colours.…
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Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…
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The UK’s National Crime Agency has arrested 14 people suspected of using the Dridex and Dyre malware to launder £11m in stolen cash.…
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After keeping quiet for days, the city of El Paso, Texas, has finally admitted that it has fallen prey to “CEO fraud” emails that saw scammers funnel $ 3.2m from the authorities using bogus invoices.…
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The co-founder of HackerOne, Jobert Abma, has reported a critical GitLab vulnerability that allowed remote code execution on application servers.…
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Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief zero day DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability.…
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Brits are getting better at patching Windows on their personal computers but worse at updating their applications, according to a new study.…
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Here’s another reason to pay attention to patching your Linux systems against the Dirty COW vulnerability: it can be used to escape Docker containers.…
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Security researcher Jerry Gamblin has created an anti-worm “nematode” that could help to patch vulnerable devices used in the massive Mirai distributed denial of service attack.…
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A year late, the US Librarian of Congress on Friday published an updated list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on circumventing digital access controls.…
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A newly unsealed indictment has detailed accusations of what appears to be one of the most inept pieces of computer crime in recent history.…
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Malware threats in search results are getting worse despite the best efforts of Google and other vendors.…
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A vulnerability in Schneider Electric’s industrial controller management software created a possible mechanism for hackers to plant malicious code on industrial networks.…
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Ruxcon They’ve been warned for years, but scores of telcos are still making bone-headed configuration mistakes in their GPRS Global Roaming Exchange (GRX) networks, leaving mail and FTP servers vulnerable.…
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Microsoft is warning of fake copies of its Security Essentials that if executed will throw a fake blue screen of death, pwn machines, and lead users to technical support scams.…
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The crypto scheme applied to second generation (2G) mobile phone data can be hacked within seconds, security researchers have demonstrated.…
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Security startup MedSec and the financial house backing the biz have published new allegations of security flaws in pacemakers and defibrillators built by St Jude Medical – and again look set to profit from the disclosures in an unorthodox way.…
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Two European security researchers exploited Comodo’s crappy backend systems to obtain a HTTPS certificate for a domain they do not own.…
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Hipster collaboration platform Slack has shuttered an access control bypass that allowed users to hijack any account.…
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Security researchers and the networks they rely on were at risk of breach by the hackers they investigate, thanks to now mitigated man-in-the-middle holes in a popular plugin for analysing debugger OllyDbg.…
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Hackers are going to considerable lengths to hide credit cards stolen from site sites victimised in a wave of recent attacks, weaving the data into working images of products sold online.…
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Top techies at British banks are being encouraged to share information about cyberattacks following revelations that the financial sector is under-reporting breaches to regulators.…
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Exclusive An unpleasant Monday morning kicked off when my personal email account popped up a message of thanks for joining YouTube rival Vimeo. Seven minutes later, I visited the website, where I was confronted by a sexually explicit video stating I was a pedophile.…
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Four dozen members of US Congress have signed a letter requesting a full briefing on the Yahoo! email scandal.…
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IBM successfully pressured security researchers into yanking offline part of a published vulnerability advisory – even after patches had been distributed to customers.…
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Hacking is big news and we’re all susceptible. In the UK, hackers could face jail time under the Computer Misuse Act, but the question on many businesses’ minds will be where the liability lies if they are hacked.…
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Security researchers have urged gaming companies to crack down on virtual currency auction and sales sites, reckoning criminals are cashing in to launder stolen money.…
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A former top US Government investigator into classified document leaks by Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden has criticised the effectiveness of background checks – saying such checks will not prevent further leaks.…
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An alarming proportion of cops’ websites lack any form of automatic secure connection, meaning potentially sensitive data is communicated in plain unencrypted text – according to research.…
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Microsoft’s PowerShell feature “Just Enough Administration” (JEA) is, apparently, “way too much administration” according to researcher Matt Weeks.…
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The Russian government “directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions,” the US Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Friday, an accusation that gives formal recognition to a claim previously voiced through unnamed sources.…
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London Police have continued to bag and tag criminals who installed malware in ATMs across the city, with the extradition of a Romanian man to the UK last week.…
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Wherever you look there’s yet another SME or enterprise migrating to Office 365. This says a lot for the attractiveness of cloud-based office suites, and perhaps it also says something about the attractiveness of letting someone else look after one’s SharePoint and Exchange servers rather than having to fight with their maintenance and upkeep internally.…
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Assistant Professor Matthew Green has asked US courts for protection so that he can write a textbook explaining cryptography without getting sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.…
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It has been an odd day for Newsweek – its main site was taken offline after it published a story claiming a company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump broke an embargo against doing deals with Cuba.…
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Five hackers are said to be behind breaches totalling up to a staggering three billion credentials from some of the world’s biggest tech companies including the Yahoo! breach that led to the loss of 500 million credentials.…
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Two malware instances have converted numbers to words in a novel attempt to cloak the IP addresses of command and control servers.…
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Internet giant Google has signed up to the Privacy Shield, a framework designed to facilitate the transfer of personal data between the EU and US by businesses.…
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The world’s largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been clocked from the same network of 152,463 compromised low-powered cameras and internet-of-things devices which punted a media outlet off the internet.…
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Apple is brewing a fix to patch an iOS password flaw that allows credentials to be stolen from backups.…
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Just two days after Yahoo! admitted hackers had raided its database of at least 500 million accounts, the Purple Palace is being dragged into court.…
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Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…
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Plans are afoot in Westminster to burn even more taxpayers’ cash by launching a new cyber-security startup accelerator in Cheltenham.…
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There were over one million fraud attempts in the UK in the first six months of 2016, or one every 15 seconds – more than 50 per cent higher than the same period of last year.…
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Criminals have started to aggressively erase EXIF metadata from their photos to make it harder for authorities to locate them, Harvard University students Paul Lisker and Michael Rose find.…
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Popular Bash shell script LetsEncrypt.sh, which is used to manage free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let’s Encrypt project, has renamed this week to avoid a trademark row.…
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The head of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has detailed plans to move the UK to “active cyber-defence”, to better protect government networks and improve the UK’s overall security.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? Here’s a photo of what I had for lunch! Amazing!!!…
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A UK hacker who broke into the computer systems to get details of gold bullion deliveries so they could be intercepted and stolen has been jailed for five years and four months.…
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CREST, the UK-based certification and accreditation body for the infosec industry, has signed an agreement with the National Security Agency to take over its incident response accreditation programme.…
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Two Israeli men have been arrested for running a distributed-denial-of service-as-a-service site, after one seemingly claimed to attack the Pentagon.…
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NHS Digital is set to start expanding the range of cybersecurity services available to UK hospitals and clinics.…
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Seagate is trying to fight off a lawsuit filed by employees whose personal information was lost when the storage giant was hit with a phishing attack.…
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UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt plans for NHS-approved health apps to play a role in patient records and healthcare have already spawned a rash of privacy concerns.…
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Kaspersky Labs is launching a capture-the-flag event at which hackers will have the chance to pop a simulated power station.…
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Popular Chinese food chain “Mr Chow’s” has been caught plating up ransomware from its website.…
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Authors of the Sundown exploit kit have proven themselves masters of copy and paste, stealing exploits from rivals and borking encryption when they opt for originality.…
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The Golden State Warriors have been sued by a bunch of fans who claim the basketball team’s mobile app is eavesdropping on them.…
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Ruslan Stoyanov was right: what could be history’s most advanced financially-driven malware was the progeny of some 50 jailed hackers known as the Lurk group.…
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Researchers at security firm FireEye may have found the malware responsible for plundering ATMs across Thailand and other parts of South East Asia.…
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A Chinese certificate authority handed out a base certificate for Github and the Univerisity of Central Florida to a mere user in a significant security blunder.…
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Apple has pushed out an emergency security update for iPhones, iPads and iPods after super sophisticated spyware was found exploiting three iOS vulnerabilities.…
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In a shocking development, smart lock manufacturer August has been caught promptly patching security holes discovered in its product.…
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Analysis A team of security researchers tipped off an investment firm about software vulnerabilities in life-preserving medical equipment in order to profit from the fallout.…
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Organisations across the Asia Pacific are terrible at information security, a Mandiant report contests.…
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The third version of the Pwntools exploit showbag has been released, sporting new Android p0wnage functions and a host of additional modules.…
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The perpetrator behind the dumping of tools penned by the probably-the-NSA hacking squad called”Equation Group” appears to be a native English speaker, according to linguistic data researcher Shlomo Argamon.…
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