Linux Mint-using terror nerd awaits sentence for training Islamic State

Paranoid fella hid operating system, weapons manuals in USB drive cufflinks, no less

A paranoid Welsh Muslim who wore gloves while typing on his laptop, admitted being part of Islamic State, and, gasp, harbored a copy of Linux Mint, has been described as a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist.”…

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NSA pulls plug on some email spying before Congress slaps it down

Curious time to stop listening to Americans talking about foreigners, eh, Donald?

Updated  The NSA has, in theory, stopped snooping on American citizens’ private communications that loosely involve foreigners in some way.…

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Last year’s ICO fines would be 79 times higher under GDPR

TalkTalk’s £400,000 penalty was big – how about £59 MILLION?

Fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) against Brit companies last year would have been £69m rather than £880,500 if the pending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had been applied, according to analysis by NCC Group.…

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FTC urged to probe easily penetrated telly-enabled teledildonic toy

Woes whack Wi-Fi webcam willy with weak websec walls

The US Federal Trade Commission has been urged to launch a probe into a hackable sex toy, which is potentially exposing couples’ teledildonic frolics to cyberpervs.…

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Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks

WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries

An Interpol investigation has revealed a worrying degree of insecurity in south-east Asian countries, with even government-operated web servers infected to operate as command and control systems for bot-herders.…

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Car hacking’s dynamic duo offers to save others $1m in research

Miller and Valasek spread the word on hacking archive

Two famed car hackers claim they can save fellow tinkerers and security researchers a lot of time and money – by handing over their tools and blueprints for free. The pair boast the gear is worth over a million bucks.…

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Russian hacker arrested in Spain for bot-herding not election-fiddling

Peter Levashov indicted over Kelihos as Russian carder Roman Seleznev cops 27 years

Last week ended badly for Russian hackers.…

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Doctor Who-inspired proxy transmogrifies politically sensitive web to avoid gov censorship

Slitheen tool smuggles browsers into cyber-Tardis

Computer boffins in Canada are working on anti-censorship software called Slitheen that disguises disallowed web content as government-sanctioned pablum. They intend for it to be used in countries where network connections get scrutinized for forbidden thought.…

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China ‘hacked’ South Korea to wreck Star Wars missile shield

FireEye fingers Middle Kingdom infiltration teams

Well-connected security biz FireEye is claiming Chinese hackers are trying to break into South Korea’s military to halt the deployment of an anti-ballistic weapons system in the country.…

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Script kiddies pwn 1000s of Windows boxes using leaked NSA hack tools

Vulnerable unpatched systems expose exploitable SMB networking to world+dog

The NSA’s Equation Group hacking tools, leaked last Friday by the Shadow Brokers, have now been used to infect thousands of Windows machines worldwide, we’re told.…

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Microsoft shrugs off report that Edge can expose user identities from Fetch requests

La la la nothing to patch here la la la

An independent security researcher claims to have uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft Edge.…

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Speaking in Tech: Hacking Microsoft Windows? That’s cute

Hacker whizz and Veracode co-founder Chris Wysopal joins the crew this week to talk secure software

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That apple.com link you clicked on? Yeah, it’s actually Russian

Didn’t we fix this back in 2005? Apparently not

Click this link (don’t fret, nothing malicious). Chances are your browser displays “apple.com” in the address bar. What about this one? Goes to “epic.com,” right?…

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Linux remote root bug menace: Make sure your servers, PCs, gizmos, Android kit are patched

Ping of pwn: Malicious UDP packets may take over gear

A Linux kernel flaw that potentially allows miscreants to remotely control vulnerable servers, desktops, IoT gear, Android handhelds, and more, has been quietly patched.…

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All ready for that Easter holiday? Here’s a mild MySQL security bug

Panic over the Riddle flaw – or just update to version 5.7. Your choice. We’re not your dad

A programming blunder has been uncovered in Oracle’s MySQL that can potentially leak usernames and passwords to man-in-the-middle eavesdroppers.…

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Leaked NSA point-and-pwn hack tools menace Win2k to Windows 8

Now anyone can hijack creaky old vulnerable machines at will. No big deal!

Updated  The Shadow Brokers have leaked more hacking tools stolen from the NSA’s Equation Group – this time four-year-old exploits that attempt to hijack venerable Windows systems, from Windows 2000 up to Server 2012 and Windows 7 and 8.…

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Sysadmin accused of crashing former employer’s Oracle database with logic bomb

Always ensure the office laptop gets returned

A Massachusetts systems administrator is facing charges of breaking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trespassing, and conversion – using other people’s property for a crime – after booby-trapping his former employer’s servers.…

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DTMF replay phreaked out the Dallas tornado alarm, say researchers

Get Kevin Mitnick on the line, he knows something about whistling codes, apparently

Strap yourself into the DeLorean: researchers from Duo reckon the Dallas tornado alarm incident was a case of old-style DTMF phreaking.…

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UK boffins steal smartmobe PINs with motion sensors

W3C API exposes sensors, so attackers only need JavaScript to follow your fingers

The World Wide Web Consortium might want to take another look at its habit of exposing too much stuff to application interfaces: a UK researcher has demonstrated a JavaScript app can spy on smartphone sensors to guess the codes users employ to unlock the devices.…

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Buggy Riverbed portal needs patching – now

Jet fuel can’t melt SteelCentral, but pwnage is far too easy

Riverbed admins: get busy patching the SteelCentral Portal application.…

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Machine vs. machine battle has begun to de-fraud the internet of lies

Standards help, too, as we fight to ensure the cost of sharing doesn’t outweigh the benefits

A long-ago cartoon in The New Yorker put it plainly: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” If that cartoon had been written today, the caption might have read, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a fraud.”…

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US govt ceases fire in legal spat with Twitter to unmask anti-Trump ‘immigration official’

CBP kills own lawsuit to out Donald-trolling twit

Twitter and the US government’s game of chicken over an anonymous anti-Trump tweeter is over before it barely began.…

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Forget Mirai – Brickerbot malware will kill your crap IoT devices

Rogue code aims to create permanent DoS

A new form of attack code has come to town and it uses techniques similar to Mirai to permanently scramble Internet of Things devices.…

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Democrats draft laws in futile attempt to protect US internet privacy

In non-snowball-in-Hell’s-chance news: New York joins states’ revolt on ISP rules

Less than a week after President Trump signed the law allowing ISPs to sell customers’ browsing habits to advertisers, Democratic politicians are introducing bills to stop the practice.…

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F-Secure snaps up Little Flocker in big F-off to Mac malware

Gobbles behavioural blocking tech to combat growing threats

F-Secure is expanding further into Mac protection with the acquisition of specialist security firm Little Flocker. Financial terms of the deal, announced Thursday, were undisclosed.…

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Online Trust Alliance merges with Internet Society

Two become one

Key internet standards-making body the Internet Society (ISOC) and security and privacy org the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) are merging.…

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Wi-Fi sex toy with built-in camera fails penetration test

Svakom’s Siime Eye exposes your most intimate moments

Sex toy designer Svakom decided that a vibrator needed a camera on the end, and it also needed a Wi-Fi access point – with the utterly predictable result that the device is hackable.…

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Europe supplants US as biggest source of child abuse hubs

Scumbags host 92% of it in just 5 countries

Europe now hosts majority of child sex abuse images (60 per cent), pushing North America into second place (37 per cent), according to an annual report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).…

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Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

Pays high price for ‘elphaser’ backdoor antics

A former IT administrator working at a cowboy boot manufacturer has pled guilty to hacking the servers and cloud accounts of his employer after they fired him and had him removed from the building.…

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Good Guy Comcast: We’re not going to sell your data, trust us

We won’t mistreat customers on this, vows company best known for mistreating customers

Update  US cable giant Comcast is looking to calm public outrage over its newfound ability to sell the browsing histories of its customers.…

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