Best Korea fingered for hacks against Bitcoin exchanges in South

Norks planning more raids to cover sanction losses, say intel boffins

North Korea has emerged as the prime suspect in recent Bitcoin exchange hacks in South Korea, with threat intel experts warning that more attacks on digital currency services and even mainstream banks are likely to follow.…

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SAP point-of-sale systems were totally hackable with $25 kit

Researchers able to hijack server and steal card details

Point-of-Sale systems from SAP had a vulnerability that allowed them to be hacked using a $ 25 Raspberry Pi or similar device, according to research unveiled at the Hack in the Box conference in Singapore last week.…

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WannaCrypt NHS victim Lanarkshire infected by malware again

Infect me once, shame on you. Infect me twice …

One of the UK National Health Service boards hit by WannaCrypt earlier this year has again been infected by malware.…

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Brazilians waxed: Uni’s Tor relay node booted after harvesting .onions

Researchers kicked off network for slurping hidden services en masse

A university research project in Brazil has had its Tor relay node banned after it was caught harvesting the .onion addresses of visitors.…

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NSA ramps up PR campaign to keep its mass spying powers

Section 702 saves lives, claims spying agency, while continuing to dodge critical question

The NSA has begun what is likely to be a determined PR campaign to retain mass spying laws as they head toward expiration at the end of the year.…

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GTFO of there! Security researchers turn against HTTP public key pinning

Sure, theoretically it offers a lot of protection, but get it wrong…

Security researchers have endorsed industry guru Scott Helme’s vote of no confidence in a next-generation web crypto technology.…

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Cybersecurity world faces ‘chronic shortage’ of qualified staff

It’s the number one problem, according to analyst

The number one issue facing cybersecurity firms is a “chronic shortage” of qualified staff.…

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Identity fraud in the UK at ‘epidemic’ levels as cases rise 5% – report

Crooks now operate ‘almost exclusively’ online

There were almost 90,000 cases of identify fraud recorded in the first six months of 2017 – 5 per cent higher than the first half of last year, according to data released today.…

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Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea

Plenty of other teams have some security responsibility, so why not end the overlap?

Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea, because plenty of other people in your organisation already overlap with their responsibilities, or could usefully do their jobs.…

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Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find

After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve

The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…

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No, the cops can’t get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court

Judges frown upon fishing for incriminating data on phones

It’s a ruling sending shockwaves through the worlds of privacy, device security, and law enforcement in America.…

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US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher

And how to avoid making the same mistakes

BSides  Minor blunders in reverse web proxies can result in critical security vulnerabilities on internal networks, the infosec world was warned this week.…

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New NIST draft embeds privacy into US govt security for the first time

Federal agency addresses the new world of Alexa, smart cameras and IoT

A draft of new IT security measures by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has for the first time pulled privacy into its core text as well as expanded its scope to include the internet of things and smart home technology.…

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UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents’ mugshots

Contract ignores lack of strategy, growing criticism

The UK Home Office has put out to tender a £4.6m ($ 5.9m) contract for facial recognition software – despite the fact its biometrics strategy and retention systems remain embroiled in controversy.…

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Och. Scottish Parliament under siege from brute-force cyber attack

Unidentified hackers attempt to bust open email accounts

Hackers are trying to break into Scottish Parliament email accounts weeks after similar campaigns against Westminster.…

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US military spies: We’ll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries

Collateral damage in 3, 2, 1…

The US Defense Intelligence Agency has vowed to capture enemy malware, study and customize it, and then turn the software nasties on their creators.…

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Sneaky devs could abuse shared libraries to slurp smartphone data

Privilege escalation is baked in to mobile OSes, if you look for it

Oxford researchers reckon they’ve spotted the next emerging trend in Android advertising (and possibly malware): using common libraries to “collude” between apps with different privilege levels.…

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Kremlin’s hackers ‘wield stolen NSA exploit to spy on hotel guests in Europe, Mid East’

Putin’s favorite attack dogs APT28 fingered by FireEye

Russian hackers accused of ransacking the US Democratic party’s servers last year may now be targeting hotels in Europe and the Middle East, it is claimed.…

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Infosec eggheads rig USB desk lamp to leak passwords via Bluetooth

Malicious gadgets can snoop on keypresses, other data, through ports, it is claimed

Malicious USB gadgets can secretly spy on data flowing in and out of devices plugged into adjacent USB ports, security researchers in Australia have warned.…

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‘Adversarial DNA’ breeds buffer overflow bugs in PCs

Boffins had to break gene-reading software but were able to remotely exploit a computer

Scientists from the University of Washington have created synthetic DNA that produced malware of a sort.…

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TalkTalk fined £100k for exposing personal sensitive info

21,000 accounts handled by Indian outsourcing biz exposed

The Information Commissioner’s Office has whacked TalkTalk with a £100,000 fine after the data of the records of 21,000 people were exposed to fraudsters in an Indian call centre.…

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FBI’s spyware-laden video claims another scalp: Alleged sextortionist charged

Fed’s NIT punches through Tor anonymity shield

The FBI’s preferred tool for unmasking Tor users has brought about another arrest: a suspected sextortionist who allegedly tricked young girls into sharing nude pics of themselves and then blackmailed his victims.…

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Engineer gets 18 months in the clink for looting ex-bosses’ FTP server

Chap admits he carried on accessing confidential email, schematics after qutting

An engineer has been jailed for 18 months after admitting to stealing blueprints from his former employer’s FTP server.…

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HMS Queen Liz will arrive in Portsmouth soon, says MoD

Any day from next Thursday onwards

New aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth could arrive at her home port, Portsmouth, within the next fortnight, according to the Ministry of Defence.…

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Send mixed messages: Mozilla wants you to try its encrypted file sharing

Though easy to use, the service’s privacy protection isn’t fully baked

Mozilla has just rolled out an experimental service called Send that allows users to make an encrypted copy of a local file, store it on a remote server, and share it with a single recipient.…

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Parents claim Disney gobbled up kids’ info through mobile games

Who’s the guy that just got sued for invading privacy? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

Disney has been sued in America for allegedly collecting children’s personal information without getting parents’ approvals.…

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To truly stay anonymous online, make sure your writing is as dull as the dullest conference call you can imagine

Turn your bon mots to meh for the sake of privacy

To publish online and remain anonymous, boffins from Bulgaria and Qatar advise being mediocre. And if you can’t manage that on your own, they have a technique to make your prose less scintillating.…

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Wait? What? The IBM cloud’s APIs use insecure TLS1 crypto?

It’s got an end-of-life date, though: next Tuesday

An e-mail has gone out from IBM about its Bluemix cloud: after next Tuesday, the SoftLayer APIs will no longer accept connections encrypted with the ancient TLS 1.0.…

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Brit voucher biz’s signup page blabbed families’ details via URL tweak

Kids Pass tries to explain why it gave folks reporting the security hole the virtual middle finger

A UK web biz has been slammed for blocking people on Twitter just for reporting a security vulnerability that potentially leaked people’s contact details.…

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It’s 2017 and Hayes AT modem commands can hack luxury cars

Telematics torched in BMWs, Infinitis, Nissan Leaf and some Fords

A bunch of mid-age Ford, Infiniti, Nissan and BMW vehicles are carrying around a vulnerable chipset from Infineon that America’s ICS-CERT reckons is easy to exploit.…

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