The New York Times has published what it says are excerpts from hacked EU diplomatic cables that a cybersecurity company apparently made available to reporters.…
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The US has been told once again to appoint a permanent ombudsperson to oversee the deal governing transatlantic data flows, but this time has been given a deadline.…
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The 2018 calendar year saw an interesting mix of both technical and strategic questions, as engineers were met with new problems and execs were forced to cope with stark new realities.…
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Microsoft today emitted an emergency security patch for a flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers are exploiting in the wild to hijack computers.…
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Uber has been slapped with a €400,000 fine by the French data protection agency for the hack that exposed the data of 57 million users.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? I want to be your backdoor man. Or so asserted Robert Plant at the end of Whole Lotta Love. Hey ho.…
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Two men, linked to the Chinese government, stand accused of hacking cloud giants, aerospace and defense companies, chip designers, US government agencies – including the Navy – and other organizations globally.…
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A German man was very confused when he received, at his request, all the information that Amazon possessed on him.…
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Roundup If you’re reading this while on-call for IT support, network security, or what have you, then we salute you. If you’re reading this to avoid Christmas present wrapping or hobnobbing with awkward relatives, or similar, then, well, let us shake your hand.…
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No flights have arrived at or left London’s Gatwick Airport since just before 21:00 UTC last night after drones were apparently spotted over the airspace.…
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Promo Back in 2008, San Francisco’s IT infrastructure ground to a halt. An engineer called Terry Childs who managed the network had consolidated all the sysadmin credentials giving access to the system’s privileged accounts, but after a dispute with the city government he refused to divulge these vital details.…
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Roundup We are now firmly into the holiday season, the Christmas parties are kicking off, and folks are swapping their Excel files for eggnog, or something cliched like that.…
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A group of criminal asswipes have managed to steal $ 1m from the Save the Children Foundation.…
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It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy fail.…
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Yesterday’s ‘bomb scare’ spam campaign may have been a follow-up to another infamous email extortion effort.…
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UK security training company Hacker House briefly had its site blocked after being mistaken for malware by Cisco’s security wing Talos’ smart “threat intelligence” software.…
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An ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits has experienced such sustained hack attacks that officials have had to shift the data to a Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility in Wiltshire.…
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The National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican Party’s campaigning arm, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a major compromise of its email system.…
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Someone’s taken a wander through the systems of question-and-answer website Quora, pilfering account details of 100 million users.…
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Did your work printer produce a strange call to action this week, urging you to follow a tasteless twerp on YouTube, and then offer you a “bro fist” made up of punctuation marks?…
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Roundup November ended with a week of medical mishaps, near disaster at Dell, and the introduction of Pesky Pepper.…
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Crypto boffins have found a way to exploit side-channel information to downgrade most of the current TLS implementations, thanks to ongoing support for outmoded RSA key exchanges.…
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A bored trainee secretary at a GP practice has been fined for snooping on the health records of colleagues, friends and strangers.…
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Symantec says the biz that accused it of conspiring with others to avoid independent security audits is “less than honest” and driven by a “thirst for profits.”…
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A group of university researchers from around the globe have teamed up to develop what they say is a powerful new tool to root out security flaws.…
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An NCC Group graduate trainee who emailed 300 coworkers to ask for help with what she deemed to be “unusual” behaviour from her Kali Linux VM; contacted the firm’s incident response team to complain about a faulty laptop; and said the machine had been “deliberately sabotaged”, has had her victimisation claim thrown out by an employment tribunal.…
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Promo Defending organisations against security attacks is an ongoing challenge, with new threats constantly emerging to test the beleaguered security professional.…
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The “Zip Slip” vulnerability that first emerged in June has claimed another victim – the Apache Hadoop YARN NodeManager daemon.…
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German chat platform Knuddels.de (“Cuddles”) has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people, it’s 2018).…
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After faking one’s own death to defraud a life insurance company, it’s best to avoid being photographed alive and well, particularly when border agents may be reviewing those photos.…
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Diligent hackers have decided routers and cameras aren’t enough, and have reportedly crafted Mirai variants targeting Linux servers.…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but Microsoft has pulled a couple of buggy patches in Office, but left a crash-worthy security fix in place.…
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Two miscreants were sent down by the Old Bailey yesterday for their role in the 2015 hacking of UK ISP TalkTalk.…
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Promo No matter how sophisticated your security precautions are, you can never assume your computer systems are impenetrable. Only the most alert and highly skilled defenders can fight off determined cybercriminals who know how to circumvent today’s advanced security and monitoring tools.…
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Roundup What a week it has been: we had the creation of a new government agency, a meltdown flashback, and of course, Patch Tuesday.…
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BlackBerry has made its biggest acquisition ever, spending over half of its cash pile to bolster its threat detection unit.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Work out loud,” my prospective new employer tells me, adding that “we are a team, not a family”. Sister Sledge need not apply.…
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Webcast If you like true crime stories, you already know that at the end the criminal is usually revealed to be someone the victim knew well.…
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One of three people charged over the December 2017 “swatting” death of 28-year-old Andrew Finch in the US has pleaded guilty.…
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Arriving at a recent conference organised by one of the government’s many regulatory bodies, I received my obligatory lanyard – and something else, credit-card-shaped, emblazoned with the branding for event. “What’s this?” I asked.…
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Google has claimed to have cut Android malware by half.…
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A bloke has told how he discovered a bug in Valve’s Steam marketplace that could have been exploited by thieves to steal game license keys and play pirated titles.…
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Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…
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Three years after the governments of America and China agreed not to hack corporations in each other’s countries, experts say Beijing is now back to its old ways.…
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The man accused over DDoS-bombing several online games hosts in 2013 and 2014 has entered a guilty plea under a deal with US authorities.…
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Backgrounder Recent headlines have been full of IT security breaches at major corporations, such as the theft of customer data from British Airways in September 2018. Yet, smaller companies should not believe that they fly beneath the radar of attackers.…
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Google today pushed out the November edition of its monthly Android security updates, giving carriers and device makers a fresh set of patches to install. Fingers cross the patches are rolled out to you ASAP.…
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Promo Information security training specialist SANS promises that its fourth European Security Awareness Summit will be its biggest yet.…
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Roundup This week there were Hacked Home Hubs, buggered BBC Bits, and PortSmash privilege punch-ups.…
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Iran apparently infiltrated the communications network of CIA agents who allowed their secret websites, used to exchange messages with informants, to be crawled by Google.…
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Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways’ website.…
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Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways’ website.…
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The UK’s data watchdog has slapped a £220,000 fine on two firms that collectively made hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls to flog home security services.…
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Sneaking in behind the hoopla of Tuesday’s MacBook spectacle was a set of security updates for virtually all of Apple’s supported products.…
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A newly developed class of brain implants could also become hacking targets, researchers are warning.…
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A group of Italian researchers have developed a blueprint for a massive virtualized enterprise network to allow for large-scale security tests without ruining an IT manager’s day.…
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Roundup This week’s headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…
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A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code on the box.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? First, an apology. Allow me to express my sincere regret for any offence caused by the videotape you will soon be receiving of your faithful servant buffing the old banana, courtesy of some mysterious stranger.…
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Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport numbers, has been accessed by unauthorised personnel in the latest security screw-up to hit the airline industry.…
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A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based research operation backed by the Russian government.…
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Morrisons has vowed to take its hack liability fight to the UK Supreme Court after failing to convince Court of Appeal judges it should not be held responsible for the actions of a rogue employee who leaked the supermarket’s entire payroll via Tor.…
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Microsoft’s former director of sports marketing has been indicted on five counts of wire fraud, based on allegations that he created fake invoices to defraud the software giant and sold its property as his own.…
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Miscreants are using a trio of NSA hacking tools, leaked last year by the Shadow Brokers, to infect and spy on computer systems used in aerospace, nuclear energy, and other industries.…
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Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…
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Analysis Transport Layer Security underpins much of the modern internet. It is the foundation of secure connections to HTTPS websites, for one thing. However, it can harbor a sting in its tail for those concerned about staying anonymous online.…
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People in the Googleplex need to talk to each other more: the Chocolate Factory has launched a third product with “Titan” in its name, and it’s only related to one of the other two bits of kit.…
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Eight D-Link router variants are vulnerable to complete pwnage via a combination of security screwups, and only two are going to get patched.…
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Sysadmins and netizens, it’s time to get serious about killing off old, buggy and insecure versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) – the encryption used to secure connections to HTTPS websites like your bank, El Reg, and so on.…
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising health professionals to keep an eye on some of the equipment they use to monitor pacemakers and other heart implants.…
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Roundup This week we caught wind of another Facebook blunder, a dodgy Patch Tuesday bundle, and more China trouble.…
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IBM has withdrawn a patch for a significant security vulnerability in its WebSphere Application Server after the code knackered some systems.…
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Infosec pros might have already noticed some familiar IP address ranges in their system logs – China has returned to the cyber-attack arena.…
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Google and Microsoft engineers have pooled their efforts to propose a protection against what are known as “replay attacks”.…
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Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by vowing to shutter the service over the next ten months in the wake of a potential data leak.…
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Intel claims that “protecting our customers’ data and ensuring the security of our products is a top priority” for the semiconductor giant – however, security researcher Stefan Kanthak argues otherwise.…
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It has been a busy week for Russian military intelligence – and it’s about to get busier. A database search of car registrations appears to have outed more than 300 GRU agents.…
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roundup This week we all worried about bugged servers, North Korean APTs, and GRU hacking groups.…
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The Belgian researcher who last year gave the world the KRACK attack has returned with what he says is a refined version of the vulnerability.…
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Cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid has copped to blabbing customer and recipients’ email addresses, chalking it up to an overenthusiastic bit of indexing without explaining why pages were public-facing in the first place.…
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If you thought the monster battle between Google and Uber over alleged theft of its self-driving technology was over, you’d be wrong.…
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Privacy consultant and former Internet Architecture Board president Christian Huitema has said he reckons hotspot users should be given better privacy protection.…
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The UK’s Conservative Party has kicked off its annual conference by exposing its MPs’ phone numbers to anyone able to guess their email addresses.…
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Roundup One or two things happened this week on the security front, like the elimination of the White House cyber czar, the massive leak of code from Aeroflot , and the debut of UEFI rootkits.…
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The Australian teen who last month admitted hacking into Apple’s internal network and stealing data from the Cupertino giant has been spared jail.…
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Researchers from the University of Oslo in Norway have developed a system that tries to combat rogue employees and inside jobs – by combining cyber and real-world security knowhow.…
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Cunning malware VPNFilter remains under active development, and is acquiring ever more dangerous features.…
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Canadian Center for Cyber Security chief Scott Jones has told a parliamentary committee there’s no need for the country to cut Chinese comms giant Huawei out of its 5G rollout.…
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Interview El Reg had the honour of speaking with a war hero last Friday when the UK’s National Museum of Computing fired up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt messages sent from Poland.…
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The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Analysis Nothing super-fuels a security sales pitch like the sort of threat it’s hard to ignore.…
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Roundup When we weren’t dealing with malware bricked-breweries, poorly-wiped servers or litigious vendors, we had a number of other security headaches to keep busy with.…
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The Ministry of Defence has too many bigshots and not enough grunts – or cash – to reliably keep Britain’s nuclear deterrent hiding beneath the ocean waves, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.…
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Comment It’s exasperating how each high-profile computer security breach reveals similar patterns of failure, no matter the organization involved.…
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Dutch security firm Gemalto has said its blockchain product, slated to pilot later this year, will keep personal data off the blockchain.…
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The UK’s TV Licensing agency has admitted that 25,000 viewers were induced into sending their bank details over an insecure connection.…
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Who’s hacking into university systems? Here’s a clue from the UK higher education tech crew at Jisc: the attacks drop dramatically during summer break.…
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An infosec bod has documented a remote-code execution flaw in Alpine Linux, a distro that pops up a lot in Docker containers.…
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Roundup This was the week of ice cold exploits, re-appearing JavaScript nasties, and of course Patch Tuesday. A few other things happened too……
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Details of a locally exploitable but kernel-level flaw in Webroot’s SecureAnywhere macOS security software were revealed yesterday, months after the bug was patched.…
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