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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