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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