UK surveillance law raises concerns security researchers could be ‘deputised’ by the state

Could govt press-gang you into ‘helping’?

Provision in the UK’s controversial surveillance laws create a potential means for the UK government to press-gang “any” UK computer expert into working with GCHQ. Computer scientists and researchers are concerned about the provision – even though the consensus is that it is unlikely to be applied in practice because it would damage wider co-operation.…

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Popular RADIUS server exploitable with TLS session caching

‘Inner authentication’ has bad karma, allows strangers to log in without credentials

Sysadmins with FreeRADIUS – the most widely deployed Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service server – in their boxen need to run an upgrade because there’s a bug in its TTLS and PEAP implementations.…

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Network Time Protocol updated to spook-harden user comms

Network time lords decide we don’t need IP address swaps

The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another small step in protecting everybody’s privacy – this time, in making the Network Time Protocol a bit less spaffy.…

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TRUMP SCANDAL! No, not that one. Or that one. Or that one. Or that one.

Hackers target The Donald’s businesses

The FBI and CIA are investigating an attempted hack on the Trump Organization.…

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Chipotle: Hackers did to our registers what our burritos did to your colon

Fast food chain cops to POS malware breach

Fast-food chain Chipotle says hackers infected its point of sale terminals to gain access to card data from stores in 47 states and Washington, DC.…

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Three Nigerians sentenced to 235 years in prison for online scamming

Don’t expect princely borrowing emails to stop any time soon

A court in Mississippi has sentenced three Nigerian men to 235 years in prison for running online scams that duped people out of tens of millions of dollars.…

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Ransomware hits Australian hospitals after botched patch

WannaCry? Minister says data is safe, so save your tears for now

Hospitals connected to Australian State of Queensland’s integrated electronic medical record system (ieMR) are suffering outages attributed to patching against a ransomware attack.…

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Network-sniffing, automation, machine learning: How to get better threat intel

When two ‘innocent’ events on the network are anything but

IT teams can get away with poor service management, outdated software development methods and outdated apps running on legacy tin, but they might want to think twice before skimping on cybersecurity. If you don’t stay on top of this stuff, while you might not be found out today or tomorrow, eventually, your customers’ personal details might just turn up on Pastebin.…

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.Science and .study: Domains of the bookish? More like domains of the JERKS!

Only few bad apples at internet badness hotspots, though

The .science domain has become a “hotspots” of malicious or abusive activity on the internet, according to a new study out Tuesday.…

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Yahoo! retires! bleeding! ImageMagick! to! kill! 0-day! vulnerability!

Purple Palace pays researcher US$ 778 bounty per byte

How would you like US$ 778 per byte for your exploit?…

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LastPass now supports 2FA auth, completely undermines 2FA auth

Just keep putting those eggs in the one basket, friends

Password manager LastPass has added a new feature to its software: the ability to store two-factor authentication codes. This is great news. For hackers.…

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Wannacry: Everything you still need to know because there were so many unanswered Qs

How it first spread, Win XP wasn’t actually hit, and more

Vid  It has been a week since the Wannacry ransomware burst onto the world’s computers – and security researchers think they have figured out how it all started.…

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Phishing scum going legit to beat browser warnings

Now that Chrome and Firefox call out HTTP, phisherpholk are getting certified

Browser-makers’ decision to put big red warning lights in the faces of users when they hit sites too slack to use HTTPS is backfiring a little, as crooks are accelerating their use of encryption.…

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No laptop ban on Euro flights to US… yet

Pilots: Um, you want all those lithium batteries in the hold?

The European Commission (EC) and the US have pushed back against moves for a wider ban on laptops on aircraft but talks on the subject will continue in Washington next week.…

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IoT needs security, says Microsoft without even a small trace of irony

Sysadmins, don’t hurt your necks shaking your heads

Still reeling from criticism over the WannaCrypt attack, Microsoft has stuck its hat on a stick and raised it out of the trench to see how its proposals for Internet of Things security might be received.…

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Shadows Brokers resurface, offer to sell fresh ‘wine of month’ club exploits

Data dump on monthly subscription model

The infamous Shadow Brokers hacking crew, central players in the release of the vulnerability that led to last week’s WannaCrypt chaos, have returned online with a threat to release more exploits.…

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Ransomware scum have already unleashed kill-switch-free WannaCry‬pt‪ variant

Researchers warn over new Uiwix strain

Miscreants have launched a ransomware worm variant that abuses the same vulnerability as ‪the infamous WannaCry‬pt‪ malware.…

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Comey was loathed by the left, reviled by the right – must have been doing something right

Three years of the US’s top cop in action

Analysis  The firing of FBI Director James Comey came as a shock to almost everyone, not least to the man himself.…

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74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

All you need to know – from ports to samples

Special report  The WannaCrypt ransomware worm, aka WanaCrypt or Wcry, today exploded across 74 countries, infecting hospitals, businesses including Fedex, rail stations, universities, at least one national telco, and more organizations.…

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LastPass resolves UK connectivity blooper

Third-party provider blamed

Cloud-based password manager LastPass has resolved an issue that left Brits unable to reliably access the service between Tuesday and Thursday this week.…

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Just 99.5 million nuisance calls… and KeurBOOM! A £400K megafine

That’d be 0.4 pence a call – if anyone ever paid it

A UK firm found responsible for orchestrating 99.5 million nuisance calls has been fined a record £400,000 (US$ 517,550) by the Information Commissioner’s Office.…

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Secure email service builds newsletter bomb defences after attack pummels their inbox

500,000 junk messages in a week paralysed Tutanota

Secure email service Tutanota has built defences against newsletter bombs after becoming a victim itself.…

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Call the fuzz, says Google, get the reward

Chocolate Factory bearing gifts to improve open source projects

Google wants more open source projects to include fuzzing during their development cycle, and to help things along, it’s announced a rewards program that goes as high as US$ 20,000.…

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Russian RATs bite Handbrake OSX download mirror

Check your hash, delete the app, change your passwords

If you use the popular video transcoder Handbrake on a Mac, the distributors want you to check the download hash after one of their mirrors was compromised.…

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Fake invoice scammers slurp $5bn+ from corp beancounters – FBI

Gawd, and we thought El Reg hacks’ martini expense claims were bad

The FBI reckons scammers netted more than $ 5bn in four years by emailing fake invoices and similar bogus claims to beancounters, tricking them into handing over company cash.…

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Hackers emit 9GB of stolen Macron ’emails’ two days before French presidential election

Hmm, who could possibly do such a thing?

Emmanuel Macron, the front-runner in France’s presidential election, has condemned the online leakage of what’s alleged to be his campaign staff’s emails.…

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Microsoft says: Lock down your software supply chain before the malware scum get in

Stealthy attack code spotted going after payment systems

Microsoft’s security team is urging developers to shore up their software update systems – after catching miscreants hijacking an editing application’s download channels to inject malware into victims’ PCs.…

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You only need 60 bytes to hose Linux’s rpcbind

Sigh … people just leave it on without blocking the port world+dog knows it uses. So patch it or close it, people

A 60 byte payload sent to a UDP socket to the rpcbind service can crash its host by filling up the target’s memory.…

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Mozilla takes a turn slapping Symantec’s certification SNAFU

Take Google’s advice and get out of CA infrastructure’

Mozilla has weighed in to the ongoing Symantec-Google certificate spat, telling Symantec it should follow the Alphabet subsidiary’s advice on how to restore trust in its certificates.…

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Eurocrats prep white-box crypto capture-the-flag

ECRYPT WhobOx Challenge opens May 15

Defender or attacker, it’s less than a fortnight away from the WhibOx Challenge, a capture-the-flag (CTF) competition operated by the EU-supported ECRYPT.…

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40,000 Tinder pics scraped into big data service

Trove then disappears, as folks point out the privacy problem

Amid a storm of criticism, a set of facial images built by scraping the Tinder dating service has been pulled from Kaggle.…

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