The technology industry has hit back at proposed plans by France and Germany to force EU member states to backdoor encryption for the police.…
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D-Link has resolved an authentication bypass flaw in one of its enterprise switches.…
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NSA and US Cyber Command boss Mike Rogers has revealed the future direction of his two agencies – and for the private sector, this masterplan can be summarized in one word.…
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After unlawfully hoarding millions of mugshots of one-time suspects, UK police chiefs were this week told to delete the snaps – but only if the people in the photos complain. And even then, requests can be easily waved away.…
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The South Korean public sector is once again in the firing line of a sophisticated – and likely government-backed – cyberattack.…
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Microsoft’s popped out a Security Update for Adobe Flash.…
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Netflix has released the source code of a web application called Stethoscope for evaluating the security of mobile and desktop computing devices.…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Java and Python have a bug you can exploit to cross firewalls. Since neither are yet patched, it might be a good day to nag your developers for a bit.…
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Cars are smart enough to remember an owner, but not smart enough to forget one – and that’s a problem if a smart car is sold second-hand.…
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A marketer who used stolen email accounts to trouser more than a million dollars by spamming people has been sent down for four years.…
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A sacked system administrator has been jailed after hacking the control systems of his ex-employer – and causing over a million dollars in damage.…
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A newbie congressman has floated his first ever US law bill – one that demands visitors to America hand over URLs to their social network accounts.…
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A detailed analysis of the Shamoon malware – which is playing a huge role in the cyberwar between Saudi Arabia and Iran – has identified servers used to spread the software nasty.…
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RSA USA Every year, the RSA Conference in San Francisco brings out the best and the brightest for its crypto panel, and the view from the floor was simple. Ignore the fads and hyped technology, and concentrate on the basics: good, clean, secure programming.…
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Getting into America can be tricky at the moment if you have the wrong skin color or the wrong surname.…
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Opinion The cybersecurity industry is investing heavily in “machine learning” technologies in the hope of providing a more dynamic defence against malware. The practical upshot of this is that the delegates to the RSA Conference next week are likely to hear a lot about artificial intelligence in next-generation anti-virus (NGAV) even though neither term is particularly well defined.…
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The Mirai malware that hijacked hundreds of thousands of IoT gadgets, routers and other devices is now capable of infecting Windows systems.…
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A Moldovan miscreant has admitted infecting computers at a US oil company and school district in an attempt to rob the organizations blind.…
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A Scottish couple have been awarded damages of more than £17,000 in total for the “extreme stress” they suffered as a result of the “highly intrusive” use of CCTV systems by the owner of a neighbouring property.…
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UK magazine publisher Future’s FileSilo website has been raided by hackers, who have made off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords.…
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Sophos has announced a deal to acquire the core technologies of anti-malware protection outfit Invincea for $ 100m plus up to $ 20m, dependent on first-year revenues.…
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A malware writer and one time FireEye intern hauled in as part of massive global raids of cybercrime giant Darkode has been handed three years probation, ducking a possible 16 months sentence.…
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Windows users running the Tor browser can be tricked into uncloaking themselves, with a pretty straightforward trick based on Microsoft’s DRM system.…
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US CERT on Thursday issued a security advisory warning that all currently supported versions of Windows are vulnerable to a memory corruption bug that can be exploited to crash computers from afar.…
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The US Department of Justice will be happy campers after a court ruled that Google can’t avoid complying with domestic search warrants for data held overseas.…
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A scathing parliamentary report into UK.gov’s infosec practices has called for the government to step up its efforts to protect Britain from cyber attacks in the face of today’s “chaotic” practices.…
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The Netherlands has decided its vote-counting software isn’t ready for prime time, and will revert to hand-counted votes for its March 15 election.…
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Feature The allegations that computer hackers affected the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election have cast a long shadow and might appear to be unprecedented.…
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