A trio of ARM engineers have devoted some of their free time* to working up an architecture to address the problem of delivering software updates to internet-connected things.…
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Concerns at the effect of The Netherlands’ new security laws could result in the country’s certificate authority being pulled from Mozilla’s trust list.…
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A Google-conducted survey of 231 infosec pros worldwide has reaffirmed the industry’s faith in strong passwords, and achieved consensus about nothing else.…
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Israel-based Illusive Networks claims that its approach of planting poison-pill servers in a network can detect incoming attacks faster than any other method.…
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It’s going to be an unpleasant weekend for some Mac users who are facing a complete system wipe and reinstall – after hackers stashed malware in legitimate applications.…
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Roundup IT admins aren’t always fond of patching. It’s like going to the dentist – it needs to be done but it can be a pain to do. Sadly, this week there was a lot of patching to be done.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? Flee! Flee! It’s the return of the frozen heads!…
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Britain’s F-35B fighter jets currently cost around $ 123m each – and British officials are quite content that the only engine overhaul facility for the stealth aircraft’s engines is located in Turkey.…
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Dido Harding, the woman at the helm during TalkTalk’s 2015 mega breach, was yesterday grilled about her move to chair NHS Improvement, the body responsible for overseeing the UK’s health service and also famously clobbered by a huge cyber attack.…
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WPA2 Wi-Fi users – ie, almost all of us – have had a troubling Monday with the arrival of research demonstrating a critical design flaw in the technology used to secure our wireless networks. A flaw so bad, it can be exploited by nearby miscreants to potentially snoop on people’s internet connections over the air.…
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Linus Torvalds release notification for Linux 4.14’s fifth release candidate contains an interesting aside: the Linux Lord says fuzzing is making a big difference to the open source operating system.…
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Analysis David Kent, of Spring, Texas, USA, was sentenced to prison earlier this month for hacking Rigzone.com, a oil and gas industry website he founded and sold to employment data biz DHI Group, in an effort to build a second site, Oilpro.com, into an acquisition target.…
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Two members of the US House of Representatives today introduced a law bill that would allow hacking victims to seek revenge and hack the hackers who hacked them.…
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Updated Sketchy websites are increasingly using cryptocurrency mining as a source of income.…
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Equifax may soon face the wrath of UK politicians after the chairman of the country’s House of Commons Treasury Committee demanded answers from the firm over its handling of its recent data breach.…
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Virtual private network provider PureVPN helped the FBI track down an Internet stalker, by combing its logs to reveal his IP address.…
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Disqus, the developer of website comment systems used worldwide, is playing the old “bury bad news late on a Friday” card – as it just confessed one of its databases was swiped by hackers.…
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“Operation Resume Hoard” was going well. Initiated around April 1, 2015, it represented David W. Kent’s plan to build the membership of his oil and gas industry networking site Oilpro.com.…
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VB2017 Avast staffers spoke at the Virus Bulletin International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday to shed more light on their postmortem of the CCleaner fiasco – and urge developers to protect their software’s toolchain and distribution systems from hackers.…
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VB2017 Some bulletproof hosting (BPH) operations – wellspring of all manner of online villainy – are moving their operations to the disputed territories of eastern Ukraine and Transnistria on the Moldovan border.…
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OpenWorld 2017 Oracle’s founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison put on his best salesman act Tuesday during his second keynote at the tech giant’s OpenWorld gabfest – this time playing up the impact high-profile IT security breaches have had on organisations and increasing concerns over state hackers.…
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SonicWall has updated its product range with an eye on ransomware and mesh networking.…
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The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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The US State Department on Friday announced that it is pulling all non-essential staff and their families out of its embassy in Cuba following reports of a secret weapon being deployed against employees there.…
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