WordFence are warning that the WordPress Captcha plugin, popular enough to get around 300,000 installations, should be replaced with the latest official WordPress version (4.4.5).…
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If you’ve skipped recent Windows 10 Creators Updates, here’s a reason to change your mind: its facial recognition security feature, Hello, can be spoofed with a photograph.…
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Brit teen Jack Chappell has avoided being sent to prison after pleading guilty to helping launch DDoS attacks against NatWest, Amazon and Netflix, among others.…
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Without much fanfare, negotiators crafting the Wassenaar Agreement earlier this month moved to make things easier for infosec white-hats.…
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Dell EMC has patched an SMBv1 bug in its Data Domain Deduplication and Data Protection software.…
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Five people suspected of infecting Windows PCs with ransomware – and extorting money from more than 170 victims in Europe and the US – have been arrested.…
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Two of the five unnamed individuals cuffed this month in Romania on suspicion of spreading ransomware face US computer crime charges – for their alleged role in taking over 123 out of 187 networked computers that control Washington DC’s CCTV cameras earlier this year.…
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Final update The UK Ministry of Justice has been slammed for poor handling of requests for personal records made under data protection laws – and told to fix the 700-plus backlog by October.…
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Foreign secretary Boris Johnson will warn Russia that the UK will retaliate against cyber attacks in a rare visit to Moscow today.…
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Nissan Canada’s vehicle-financing wing has been hacked, putting personal information on as many as 1.13 million customers in the hands of miscreants.…
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The British government has refused to say how much new F-35 fighter jets will cost the nation – as it emerges that no fighting ships of the Royal Navy will be in foreign waters during the festive period.…
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Looking for browser privacy? A group of researchers in France and Japan say RequestPolicyContinued and NoScript have the toughest policies, while Ghostery and uBlock Origin offer good blocking performance and a better user experience.…
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Kaspersky researchers have turned up a strain of malware lurking in adult content and fake virus scanners, and it can run a victim’s Android mobe so hard they might suffer physical damage.…
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Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy has turned up a howling blunder in a password manager bundled with Windows 10.…
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Security researchers regularly set out to find implementation problems in cryptographic algorithms, but not enough effort is going towards the search for mathematical backdoors, two cryptography professors have argued.…
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Malware hunting biz and nautical jargon Avast has released its machine-code decompiler RetDec as open source, in the hope of arming like-minded haters of bad bytes and other technically inclined sorts with better analytical tools.…
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The Home Office has admitted the UK’s biometrics strategy won’t be published until next year, as MPs slam an “unacceptable” delay of more than five years.…
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A former New Jersey college student has copped to helping create and run the massive Mirai DDoS botnet.…
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Researchers working on a technology to detect unannounced data breaches have found, to their dismay, that one per cent of the sites they monitored were hacked over the previous 18 months.…
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Ian Beer of Google’s Project Zero has followed up on a “coming soon” Twitter teaser with a jailbreakable iOS and Mac OS vulnerability.…
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Developers working in secure development guidelines can still be bitten by upstream bugs in the languages they use.…
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The SSL certificate on the criminal justice and court listing site justice.gov.uk expired yesterday, causing browsers to now warn users that their information is at risk.…
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Researchers say a recently-patched vulnerability in Android could leave users vulnerable to attack from signed apps.…
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Poorly written code is leaving banks at greater risk of attack and poorly prepared for big changes in the financial sector due to come into effect early next year.…
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Cryptocurrency mining market NiceHash says it has fallen victim to a hacking attack that may have resulted in the loss of its entire Bitcoin wallet.…
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Penetration tester Sabri Haddouche has reintroduced the world to email source spoofing, bypassing spam filters and protections like Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), thereby posing a risk to anyone running a vulnerable and unpatched mail client.…
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Stolen-creds-for-sale site Leakbase has gone dark and started redirecting to Troy Hunt’s HaveIBeenPwned.…
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Google has warned Android developers to give users better warnings about their apps’ data collection behaviours, or it will flag their failings.…
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After rapidly patching a flaw that allowed anyone with access to a High Sierra Mac to obtain administrative control, Apple still has more work to do to make its software secure, namely iOS 11, it was claimed this week.…
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An NSA hacker has admitted taking home copies of classified software exploits – understood to be the cyber-weapons slurped from an agency worker’s home Windows PC by Kaspersky Labs’ antivirus.…
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A Russian hacker already facing a lengthy prison stay in the US has been sent down for another 14 years for heading up an “organized cybercrime ring” that racked up $ 59m in damages across America.…
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