Usenix Enigma 2017 Hacking sensors isn’t as big an area of research as hacking operating systems and firmware, but the results of simple physical hacks can be far-reaching.…
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IBM has patched twin cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in its Hadoop-probing InfoSphere BigInsights platform.…
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US President Donald Trump will order a 60-day report on the state of the nation’s cybersecurity, complete with recommendations on whether new legal powers are required.…
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A worrying number of VPN apps for Android mobile devices are rife with malware, spying, and code injection, say researchers.…
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The LeakedSource data breach aggregator and look-up service has gone offline, possibly due to a police raid.…
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At least 15 Saudi government offices and private companies have been hit by another wave of attacks from Shamoon 2 malware that leaves hard drives completely erased.…
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A single TXT message is enough to cause Samsung S5 and S4 handsets to return to factory settings, likely wiping users’ data along the way. And because the attack exploits Android’s innards, other vendors’ handsets are at risk.…
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The HummingBad malware first discovered in February 2016 is making a return visit to the charts.…
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Beads of sweat must have surely run down the face of one hacker who, while trying to score a bug bounty, inadvertently infiltrated an “internal US Department of Defence website that requires special credentials to access.”…
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Computer security experts and cryptographers have accused The Guardian of overblowing what was reported to be a backdoor in WhatsApp’s encryption.…
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Computer boffins Juan Echeverria and Shi Zhou at University College London have chanced across a dormant Twitter botnet made up of more than 350,000 accounts with a fondness for quoting Star Wars novels.…
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Cisco is warning of possible return of a massive ransomware spam campaign after researchers noticed traces of traffic from the hitherto dormant Necrus botnet.…
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ProtonMail, the privacy-focused email business, has launched a Tor hidden service to combat the censorship and surveillance of its users.…
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Facebook has paid US$ 40,000 to vulnerability hunter Andrew Leonov for disclosing how the hacker gained remote code execution on its servers through the widely-reported ImageMagick flaw.…
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A security firm has reverse engineered 16,000 Android apps on Google’s Play store and found that over 304 contain sensitive secret keys.…
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Microsoft says its Windows 10 Anniversary Update squashes more exploit delivery chains than ever.…
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The head of the US Marines wants to recruit about 3,000 troops skilled in online warfare and espionage to make sure the Corps is ready for 21st-century battle.…
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A 21-year-old computer science student, who won a Programmer of the Year Award in high school, has admitted selling key-logging malware out of his college dorm room.…
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EU policy makers are considering introducing a new licensing regime for anonymised “machine-generated data”.…
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Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Informatics say people’s fingerprints could be extracted from photographs using yet-to-be built technology.…
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British security startup Panaseer is expanding to New York from London as it plans to land a large American investor in 2017.…
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It might take a major bank to fail as a result of a cyber attack for meaningful changes in cybersecurity practices, regulation and governance in the UK banking market to be implemented, a leading industry commentator has said.…
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A researcher has published a tool to help administrators delve into GitHub commits to find high-entropy secret keys.…
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In a surprising and worrying move, the FBI has dropped its case against a man accused of downloading child sex abuse images, rather than reveal details about how they caught him.…
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On January 3, Alvin Lee Neal received a 46-month prison sentence for robbing a Wells Fargo Bank in San Diego, California, and was ordered to pay back the $ 565 taken.…
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America’s trade watchdog is suing D-Link, alleging the router and camera vendor failed to implement basic security protections in its gear.…
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Intel’s Software Guard Extensions started rolling in Skylake processors in October 2015, but it’s got an Achilles heel: insecure I/O like keyboards or USB provide a vector by which sensitive user data could be compromised.…
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Smart meters are ‘dangerously insecure’, according to researcher Netanel Rubin, with insecure encryption and known-pwned protocols – and, worryingly, attacks reach all the way to making them explode.…
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Television production factory LG has saved Darren Cauthon’s new year by providing hidden reset instructions to liberate his Google TV from ransomware.…
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It’s third time unlucky for the scumbags behind CryptXXX ransomware, as their shoddy coding has been cracked yet again.…
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Groupon has blamed fraudulent purchases from some UK customers’ accounts on password leaks from other sites.…
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