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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