A staffer of social music streaming site 8Tracks is having a really bad day: a bit of GitHub carelessness has leaked 18 million user accounts.…
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A lack of accountability and investment in cyber-security has been blamed for the recent WannaCrypt virus that hobbled multiple hospital NHS IT systems last month, a report by The Chartered Institute for IT concludes.…
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A police officer in Fayette County, Atlanta, has nabbed a murder suspect by appropriating the Lyft vehicle he figured the perp hoped to use as a getaway car.…
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Privacy-focused French browser developer UR* has scored a grant from the European Union it hopes will help turbo charge its nascent technology.…
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The Parliament of the United Kingdom has admitted it experienced a “sustained and determined cyber attack” over the weekend and says <90 email accounts have been compromised as a result.…
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Side-channel attacks that monitor a computer’s electromagnetic output to snaffle passwords are nothing new. They usually require direct access to the target system and a lot of expensive machinery – but no longer.…
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Health insurer Anthem has today agreed to pay $ 115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by its 2015 cyber-theft of 78.8 million records.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? What the world needs now is an intelligent dustbin. It would be the pinnacle of achievement for the Internet of Things sector.…
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OpenVPN has patched a bunch of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash the service or, at a pinch, potentially gain remote-code execution.…
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Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues.…
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Second-rate opsec remained pervasive at the United States’ National Security Agency, according to an August 2016 review now released under Freedom of Information laws.…
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Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it’s using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet.…
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A mystery technology biz tried to fight off demands from the US government that it hand over people’s communications flowing through its systems.…
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Election hacking is much in the news of late and there are fears that the Russians/rogue lefties/Bavarian illuminati et al are capable of falsifying results.…
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A UK-based computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of usernames and email addresses from a US military communications system.…
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A wormable vulnerability involving an estimated one million digital video recorders (DVR) is at risk of creating a Mirai-style botnet, security researchers warn.…
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The founder of chat app Telegram has publicly claimed that feds pressured the company to weaken its encryption or install a backdoor.…
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I spent the first half of my career coding and while I don’t miss the day-in-day-out grind of coding, but do still enjoy the computer-as-infinite-toy. So from time to time I try to spend a few days with my head in the machine, playing, exploring and learning.…
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Scientists are working on a way of using the internal orientation sensors in smartphones to defend against efforts to trick voice recognition systems.…
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A powerful Android trojan with novel code injection features that posed as a game was distributed through the Google Play Store before its recent removal.…
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CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer behind the critically acclaimed Witcher games, yesterday admitted that some of its internal files and concepts for upcoming title Cyberpunk 2077 have been snaffled by hackers and held for ransom.…
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The data collection industry, fattened on info snippets gleaned from social media and mobile devices, affects people’s lives but operates without meaningful scrutiny.…
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“Why is Jeremy Paxman at Infosec?” more than one person wondered, as Newsnight‘s former rottweiler-in-chief took the stage to deliver the morning’s keynote.…
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will force European organisations to expand their cyber workforce, causing demand to outstrip the supply of expertise.…
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Russia’s control of cybercrime groups that have come to play a part in its espionage activity is crumbling, according to Cybereason.…
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Delays in updating software and operating systems are putting organisations at greater risk of attacks, according to research by Duo Security.…
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Physicists working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have spotted gravitational waves rippling through the universe for the third time, according to results published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday.…
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Through the end of November, individuals seeking a visa to travel to the US may be asked to provide usernames for social media accounts going back five years, subject to the discretion of consular officials.…
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A strain of Chinese browser-hijacking malware dubbed Fireball has infected 250 million computers.…
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Identity management outfit OneLogin has revealed it’s suffered a security incident that’s seen “unauthorized access to OneLogin data in our US data region”, but has offered rather scarier information in different documents.…
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