Miscreants have found a way to continue running cryptocurrency-crafting JavaScript on Windows PCs even after netizens browse away from the webpage hosting the code.…
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Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love’s appeal against extradition from the UK to the US begins this morning at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.…
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas.…
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The world’s self-described “most awesome” collection of images, Imgur, has confessed to leaking 1.7 million user records in 2014.…
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The British emergency services are to be equipped with 4G phones thanks to a new handheld device contract with Samsung worth up to £210m.…
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Plugging the infosec skills gap with expensive consultants or by trying to hire already skilled people won’t fix recruitment headaches, Thom Langford, CISO at Publicis Groupe, insisted at the #IRISSCERT conference in Dublin this week.…
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Linus Torvalds has offered a lengthy explanation of his thoughts on security, in which he explained a calmer and more detailed version of his expletive-laden thoughts on the topic earlier this week.…
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The world’s top PC-makers have started to ship fixes for the multiple flaws in Intel’s CPUs, but plenty won’t land until 2018.…
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Miscreants, hackers – call ’em what you will – have pilfered email addresses from an unknown number of Loake Shoes customers.…
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Sysadmins have been advised to watch for a coming HP printer firmware update that will plug a remote code execution vulnerability (among others) in its MFP-586 and the M553 printers.…
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Security researchers have warned that it might be possible to destabilise a container ship by manipulating the vessel stowage plan or “Bay Plan”.…
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Controversial certificate authority StartCom is going out of business.…
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Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing “dozens of terabytes” of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.…
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Criminals are exploiting “fake news” for commercial gain, according to new research.…
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The Register‘s recent story about the failure of most UK high street banks to follow web security best practices has provoked a lively debate among security experts.…
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The US Department of Defense is funding research into how hackers hack, with an interesting twist. It wants to wire them up with body monitoring equipment to measure how they react while hunting down and exploiting security flaws.…
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Apple’s iPhone X is one of several technologies bringing facial biometrics into the mainstream. It seems to have everything bar a heat scanner; the TrueDepth camera projects an impressive-sounding 30,000 infrared dots on to your phiz, scanning every blackhead in minute 3D detail.…
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Sex-toy maker Lovsense has told its customers to stop moaning about one of its products, which recorded audio of users as they – ahem – played, and stored it on their Android phones.…
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A crypto-currency collector who was locked out of his $ 1m Ethereum multi-signature wallet this week by a catastrophic bug in Parity’s software has claimed the blunder was not an accident – it was “deliberate and fraudulent.”…
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Roundup Phew, we made it to the weekend. Let’s take a look at everything that went down in IT security beyond what we’ve already covered this week.…
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Security software slinger Enigma has lost a key legal battle against antivirus maker Malwarebytes, which blocks and deletes Enigma’s products from PCs.…
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It’s the kind of thinking you expect from someone who lives in a volcano lair: exfiltrating data from remote screen pixel values.…
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A system that aims to identify stolen passwords before breaches are reported or even detected was launched on Tuesday.…
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A damning Ministry of Defence report into the department’s safety oversight systems has revealed when two unmanned aerial vehicles crashed into the sea off Wales.…
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