WordFence are warning that the WordPress Captcha plugin, popular enough to get around 300,000 installations, should be replaced with the latest official WordPress version (4.4.5).…
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If you’ve skipped recent Windows 10 Creators Updates, here’s a reason to change your mind: its facial recognition security feature, Hello, can be spoofed with a photograph.…
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Brit teen Jack Chappell has avoided being sent to prison after pleading guilty to helping launch DDoS attacks against NatWest, Amazon and Netflix, among others.…
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Without much fanfare, negotiators crafting the Wassenaar Agreement earlier this month moved to make things easier for infosec white-hats.…
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Dell EMC has patched an SMBv1 bug in its Data Domain Deduplication and Data Protection software.…
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Five people suspected of infecting Windows PCs with ransomware – and extorting money from more than 170 victims in Europe and the US – have been arrested.…
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Two of the five unnamed individuals cuffed this month in Romania on suspicion of spreading ransomware face US computer crime charges – for their alleged role in taking over 123 out of 187 networked computers that control Washington DC’s CCTV cameras earlier this year.…
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Final update The UK Ministry of Justice has been slammed for poor handling of requests for personal records made under data protection laws – and told to fix the 700-plus backlog by October.…
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Foreign secretary Boris Johnson will warn Russia that the UK will retaliate against cyber attacks in a rare visit to Moscow today.…
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Nissan Canada’s vehicle-financing wing has been hacked, putting personal information on as many as 1.13 million customers in the hands of miscreants.…
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The British government has refused to say how much new F-35 fighter jets will cost the nation – as it emerges that no fighting ships of the Royal Navy will be in foreign waters during the festive period.…
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Looking for browser privacy? A group of researchers in France and Japan say RequestPolicyContinued and NoScript have the toughest policies, while Ghostery and uBlock Origin offer good blocking performance and a better user experience.…
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Kaspersky researchers have turned up a strain of malware lurking in adult content and fake virus scanners, and it can run a victim’s Android mobe so hard they might suffer physical damage.…
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Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy has turned up a howling blunder in a password manager bundled with Windows 10.…
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Security researchers regularly set out to find implementation problems in cryptographic algorithms, but not enough effort is going towards the search for mathematical backdoors, two cryptography professors have argued.…
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Malware hunting biz and nautical jargon Avast has released its machine-code decompiler RetDec as open source, in the hope of arming like-minded haters of bad bytes and other technically inclined sorts with better analytical tools.…
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The Home Office has admitted the UK’s biometrics strategy won’t be published until next year, as MPs slam an “unacceptable” delay of more than five years.…
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A former New Jersey college student has copped to helping create and run the massive Mirai DDoS botnet.…
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Researchers working on a technology to detect unannounced data breaches have found, to their dismay, that one per cent of the sites they monitored were hacked over the previous 18 months.…
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Ian Beer of Google’s Project Zero has followed up on a “coming soon” Twitter teaser with a jailbreakable iOS and Mac OS vulnerability.…
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Developers working in secure development guidelines can still be bitten by upstream bugs in the languages they use.…
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The SSL certificate on the criminal justice and court listing site justice.gov.uk expired yesterday, causing browsers to now warn users that their information is at risk.…
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Researchers say a recently-patched vulnerability in Android could leave users vulnerable to attack from signed apps.…
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Poorly written code is leaving banks at greater risk of attack and poorly prepared for big changes in the financial sector due to come into effect early next year.…
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Cryptocurrency mining market NiceHash says it has fallen victim to a hacking attack that may have resulted in the loss of its entire Bitcoin wallet.…
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Penetration tester Sabri Haddouche has reintroduced the world to email source spoofing, bypassing spam filters and protections like Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), thereby posing a risk to anyone running a vulnerable and unpatched mail client.…
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Stolen-creds-for-sale site Leakbase has gone dark and started redirecting to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned.…
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Google has warned Android developers to give users better warnings about their apps’ data collection behaviours, or it will flag their failings.…
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After rapidly patching a flaw that allowed anyone with access to a High Sierra Mac to obtain administrative control, Apple still has more work to do to make its software secure, namely iOS 11, it was claimed this week.…
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An NSA hacker has admitted taking home copies of classified software exploits – understood to be the cyber-weapons slurped from an agency worker’s home Windows PC by Kaspersky Labs’ antivirus.…
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A Russian hacker already facing a lengthy prison stay in the US has been sent down for another 14 years for heading up an “organized cybercrime ring” that racked up $ 59m in damages across America.…
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Miscreants have found a way to continue running cryptocurrency-crafting JavaScript on Windows PCs even after netizens browse away from the webpage hosting the code.…
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Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love’s appeal against extradition from the UK to the US begins this morning at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.…
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas.…
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The world’s self-described “most awesome” collection of images, Imgur, has confessed to leaking 1.7 million user records in 2014.…
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The British emergency services are to be equipped with 4G phones thanks to a new handheld device contract with Samsung worth up to £210m.…
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Plugging the infosec skills gap with expensive consultants or by trying to hire already skilled people won’t fix recruitment headaches, Thom Langford, CISO at Publicis Groupe, insisted at the #IRISSCERT conference in Dublin this week.…
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Linus Torvalds has offered a lengthy explanation of his thoughts on security, in which he explained a calmer and more detailed version of his expletive-laden thoughts on the topic earlier this week.…
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The world’s top PC-makers have started to ship fixes for the multiple flaws in Intel’s CPUs, but plenty won’t land until 2018.…
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Miscreants, hackers – call ’em what you will – have pilfered email addresses from an unknown number of Loake Shoes customers.…
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Sysadmins have been advised to watch for a coming HP printer firmware update that will plug a remote code execution vulnerability (among others) in its MFP-586 and the M553 printers.…
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Security researchers have warned that it might be possible to destabilise a container ship by manipulating the vessel stowage plan or “Bay Plan”.…
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Controversial certificate authority StartCom is going out of business.…
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Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing “dozens of terabytes” of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.…
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Criminals are exploiting “fake news” for commercial gain, according to new research.…
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The Register‘s recent story about the failure of most UK high street banks to follow web security best practices has provoked a lively debate among security experts.…
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The US Department of Defense is funding research into how hackers hack, with an interesting twist. It wants to wire them up with body monitoring equipment to measure how they react while hunting down and exploiting security flaws.…
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Apple’s iPhone X is one of several technologies bringing facial biometrics into the mainstream. It seems to have everything bar a heat scanner; the TrueDepth camera projects an impressive-sounding 30,000 infrared dots on to your phiz, scanning every blackhead in minute 3D detail.…
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Sex-toy maker Lovsense has told its customers to stop moaning about one of its products, which recorded audio of users as they – ahem – played, and stored it on their Android phones.…
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A crypto-currency collector who was locked out of his $ 1m Ethereum multi-signature wallet this week by a catastrophic bug in Parity’s software has claimed the blunder was not an accident – it was “deliberate and fraudulent.”…
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Roundup Phew, we made it to the weekend. Let’s take a look at everything that went down in IT security beyond what we’ve already covered this week.…
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Security software slinger Enigma has lost a key legal battle against antivirus maker Malwarebytes, which blocks and deletes Enigma’s products from PCs.…
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It’s the kind of thinking you expect from someone who lives in a volcano lair: exfiltrating data from remote screen pixel values.…
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A system that aims to identify stolen passwords before breaches are reported or even detected was launched on Tuesday.…
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A damning Ministry of Defence report into the department’s safety oversight systems has revealed when two unmanned aerial vehicles crashed into the sea off Wales.…
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A trio of ARM engineers have devoted some of their free time* to working up an architecture to address the problem of delivering software updates to internet-connected things.…
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Concerns at the effect of The Netherlands’ new security laws could result in the country’s certificate authority being pulled from Mozilla’s trust list.…
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A Google-conducted survey of 231 infosec pros worldwide has reaffirmed the industry’s faith in strong passwords, and achieved consensus about nothing else.…
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Israel-based Illusive Networks claims that its approach of planting poison-pill servers in a network can detect incoming attacks faster than any other method.…
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It’s going to be an unpleasant weekend for some Mac users who are facing a complete system wipe and reinstall – after hackers stashed malware in legitimate applications.…
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Roundup IT admins aren’t always fond of patching. It’s like going to the dentist – it needs to be done but it can be a pain to do. Sadly, this week there was a lot of patching to be done.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? Flee! Flee! It’s the return of the frozen heads!…
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Britain’s F-35B fighter jets currently cost around $ 123m each – and British officials are quite content that the only engine overhaul facility for the stealth aircraft’s engines is located in Turkey.…
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Dido Harding, the woman at the helm during TalkTalk’s 2015 mega breach, was yesterday grilled about her move to chair NHS Improvement, the body responsible for overseeing the UK’s health service and also famously clobbered by a huge cyber attack.…
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WPA2 Wi-Fi users – ie, almost all of us – have had a troubling Monday with the arrival of research demonstrating a critical design flaw in the technology used to secure our wireless networks. A flaw so bad, it can be exploited by nearby miscreants to potentially snoop on people’s internet connections over the air.…
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Linus Torvalds release notification for Linux 4.14’s fifth release candidate contains an interesting aside: the Linux Lord says fuzzing is making a big difference to the open source operating system.…
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Analysis David Kent, of Spring, Texas, USA, was sentenced to prison earlier this month for hacking Rigzone.com, a oil and gas industry website he founded and sold to employment data biz DHI Group, in an effort to build a second site, Oilpro.com, into an acquisition target.…
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Two members of the US House of Representatives today introduced a law bill that would allow hacking victims to seek revenge and hack the hackers who hacked them.…
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Updated Sketchy websites are increasingly using cryptocurrency mining as a source of income.…
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Equifax may soon face the wrath of UK politicians after the chairman of the country’s House of Commons Treasury Committee demanded answers from the firm over its handling of its recent data breach.…
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Virtual private network provider PureVPN helped the FBI track down an Internet stalker, by combing its logs to reveal his IP address.…
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Disqus, the developer of website comment systems used worldwide, is playing the old “bury bad news late on a Friday” card – as it just confessed one of its databases was swiped by hackers.…
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“Operation Resume Hoard” was going well. Initiated around April 1, 2015, it represented David W. Kent’s plan to build the membership of his oil and gas industry networking site Oilpro.com.…
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VB2017 Avast staffers spoke at the Virus Bulletin International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday to shed more light on their postmortem of the CCleaner fiasco – and urge developers to protect their software’s toolchain and distribution systems from hackers.…
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VB2017 Some bulletproof hosting (BPH) operations – wellspring of all manner of online villainy – are moving their operations to the disputed territories of eastern Ukraine and Transnistria on the Moldovan border.…
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OpenWorld 2017 Oracle’s founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison put on his best salesman act Tuesday during his second keynote at the tech giant’s OpenWorld gabfest – this time playing up the impact high-profile IT security breaches have had on organisations and increasing concerns over state hackers.…
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SonicWall has updated its product range with an eye on ransomware and mesh networking.…
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The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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The US State Department on Friday announced that it is pulling all non-essential staff and their families out of its embassy in Cuba following reports of a secret weapon being deployed against employees there.…
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Relying on search engines to find answers to coding problems has become so common that two years ago it was suggested computer programming be renamed “googling Stack Overflow,” in reference to the oft-visited coding community website.…
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Roundup As ever, it has been a busy week on the security front with good news, some very bad reports, corporate failings all round and troubling signs ahead for those worried about government intrusion in the online world.…
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Security researchers have uncovered what they believe is a vulnerability that allows malware to completely bypass Windows Defender. Microsoft dismissed the report as of “limited practical applicability” in practice (i.e. a low-risk threat).…
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iThing owners, do not skip iOS 11: it plugs a dead-easy-to-exploit drive-by WiFi bug.…
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DerbyCon Electronic medical equipment is supposed to help humans save lives, but their lamentable security could result in considerable death, we were warned over the weekend.…
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Sponsored We can all agree that endpoint security is important – and also that it is a pain to enforce. Because of people. Worker carelessness is the most potent threat to endpoint security, according to US IT decision makers.…
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DerbyCon A sprinkle of code and an understanding of the Windows digital certificate process is all that’s needed for a miscreant to sneak malware past Microsoft’s application whitelist within a corporate environment.…
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DerbyCon Security vendors are inserting language into their products’ terms and conditions that attempt to silence critics, folks attending this year’s DerbyCon conference were told on Friday.…
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Roundup As ever, it’s been a doozy of a week for cybersecurity, or lack thereof. The Equifax saga just keeps giving, the SEC admitted it was thoroughly pwned, and Slack doesn’t bother to sign its Linux versions. We do spoil you so, Reg readers. And that was only yesterday. Here’s the rest of the week’s shenanigans we didn’t get round to.…
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Slack is distributing open Linux-based versions of its technology that are not digitally signed, contrary to industry best practice.…
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More data records have been lost or stolen during the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion) than all of 2016 (1.37 billion).…
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Equifax hasn’t found time for a houseclean and is making claims of authority and competence about security breaches that, following its own recent high profile breach, come off as pretty cringeworthy.…
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Equifax’s chief information officer and chief security officer “are retiring” and the company has admitted it knew Apache Struts needed patching in March, but looks to have fluffed attempts to secure the software.…
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Further evidence has emerged regarding the insecurity of Equifax’s web setup, as independent security researcher Scott Helme reports having uncovered all manner of problems with Equifax’s security header configuration.…
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Equifax UK has surfaced to say that British systems were not affected by a recently disclosed megahack, however 400,000 UK people were affected due to a “process failure.”…
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Three of the Bank of England’s cyber specialists have joined NCC Group to lead a newly established threat assurance unit at the UK-based security consultancy firm.…
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Promo Two much-publicised ransomware attacks earlier this year, including one on the NHS, have raised the profile of the ransomware menace that hangs over businesses of all sizes.…
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Kaspersky Lab has laughed off attempts to have its wares banned from US government computers by saying it hardly sold to the Feds anyway.…
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Excel.Application to remote code execution. LovelyA white-hat has taken a good look at whether you can pivot an attack from one machine to others using Microsoft Excel, and you probably won’t like what he found.…
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More than 42 Cisco products might inherit the Apache Struts bug that emerged last week.…
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The team behind Scotiabank’s Digital Banking Unit isn’t impressing some customers, after forgetting to renew the security certificates for their own website.…
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Updated US big box retailer Best Buy has pulled from its shelves Kaspersky Lab’s PC security software amid fears of Kremlin spies using the antivirus tool to snoop on Americans.…
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Vid Global credit reporting agency Equifax admitted today it suffered a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population.…
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Thousands of UK companies were at risk of having their .uk domain names stolen for more than four months by a critical security failure at domain registrar Enom.…
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Companies operating in the European Union must balance workplace surveillance with employees’ privacy rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.…
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The UK is lagging behind other countries in mobile wallet adoption, according to a new survey out today.…
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The anonymous CynoSure Prime “cracktivists” who two years ago reversed the hashes of 11 million leaked Ashley Madison passwords have done it again, this time untangling a stunning 320 million hashes dumped by Australian researcher Troy Hunt.…
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The UK’s “independent reviewer of terrorism legislation” appears to have gone rogue, saying that encryption should be withheld from people who don’t verify their identities on social media.…
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Police departments cannot categorically deny access to data collected through automated license plate readers, California’s Supreme Court said on Thursday – a ruling that may help privacy advocates monitor government data practices.…
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China’s new cybersecurity law will enable its government to discover potential security vulnerabilities of any company doing business in the country, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future warns.…
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North Korea has emerged as the prime suspect in recent Bitcoin exchange hacks in South Korea, with threat intel experts warning that more attacks on digital currency services and even mainstream banks are likely to follow.…
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Point-of-Sale systems from SAP had a vulnerability that allowed them to be hacked using a $ 25 Raspberry Pi or similar device, according to research unveiled at the Hack in the Box conference in Singapore last week.…
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One of the UK National Health Service boards hit by WannaCrypt earlier this year has again been infected by malware.…
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A university research project in Brazil has had its Tor relay node banned after it was caught harvesting the .onion addresses of visitors.…
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The NSA has begun what is likely to be a determined PR campaign to retain mass spying laws as they head toward expiration at the end of the year.…
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Security researchers have endorsed industry guru Scott Helme’s vote of no confidence in a next-generation web crypto technology.…
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The number one issue facing cybersecurity firms is a “chronic shortage” of qualified staff.…
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There were almost 90,000 cases of identify fraud recorded in the first six months of 2017 – 5 per cent higher than the first half of last year, according to data released today.…
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Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea, because plenty of other people in your organisation already overlap with their responsibilities, or could usefully do their jobs.…
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The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…
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It’s a ruling sending shockwaves through the worlds of privacy, device security, and law enforcement in America.…
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BSides Minor blunders in reverse web proxies can result in critical security vulnerabilities on internal networks, the infosec world was warned this week.…
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A draft of new IT security measures by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has for the first time pulled privacy into its core text as well as expanded its scope to include the internet of things and smart home technology.…
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