To hack Australia and learn its secrets, buy second-hand furniture

Secret cabinet documents found in filing cabinet sold because someone lost the key

The Australian government has suffered what must as one of the most ridiculously embarrassing security breach in its history: cabinet records from five successive governments were sent to a second-hand furniture store.…

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Maybe you should’ve stuck with NetWare: Hijackers can bypass Active Directory controls

‘DCShadow’ attack lets attackers add their own controllers, do some wrecking

Two infosec bods have demonstrated an attack on Microsoft’s Active Directory software that let them insert their own domain controller into an existing enterprise setup.…

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You can’t ignore Spectre. Look, it’s pressing its nose against your screen

Strap yourself in, this ride won’t be over for a long time yet

The Spectre vulnerability is here to stay. Even if you choose to ignore it, the problem still exists. This is potentially a very bad thing for public cloud vendors. It may end up being great for chip manufacturers. It’s fantastic for VMware.…

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Lenovo’s craptastic fingerprint scanner has a hardcoded password

ThinkPad owners need to update their software – unless they’re using Windows 10

Lenovo wants ThinkPad owners to update their machines after its Fingerprint Manager Pro software was found to contain serious security vulnerabilities.…

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Crypto-jackers slip Coinhive mining code into YouTube site ads

Trend Micro suggests disabling JavaScript in browsers

The hijacking of CPU cycles through crypto-mining JavaScript code has surged over the past few days, according to security biz Trend Micro.…

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Prepare for the challenges ahead at CyberThreat18

Westminster event targets security experts

Promo  You may think you are ahead of the game when it comes to IT security, but are you ready for the threats fomented by the fertile imagination of cyber-criminals, or the unsuspected dangers lurking in areas you may not even have considered?…

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IT ‘heroes’ saved Maersk from NotPetya with ten-day reinstallation bliz

4,000 servers, 45,000 PCs and 2,500 apps all rebuilt, while other staff went manual

It’s long been known that shipping giant Maersk suffered very badly from 2017’s NotPetya attack.…

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Fresh botnet recruiting routers with weak credentials

With a special HNAP exploit just for D-Link kit

Security researchers believe the author of the Satori botnet is at it again, this time attacking routers to craft a botnet dubbed “Masuta”.…

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We’re cutting F-35 costs, honest, insists jet-builder Lockheed Martin

Exec tells us they’re knocking 14% off the price by 2020

Lockheed Martin aims to knock 14 per cent off the cost of Britain’s F-35B fighter jets over the next couple of years, the firm’s director of business development told The Register.…

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The Reg visits London Met Police’s digital and electronics forensics labs

Met lab tour throws up issues around storage, encryption and privacy versus security

More than 90 per cent of crime has “a digital element,” we were told as The Reg was welcomed into London Metropolitan Police’s Central Communications Command Centre, near Lambeth Bridge on the Thames.…

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America restarts dodgy spying program – just as classified surveillance abuse memo emerges

There is literally nothing decent in this story

Analysis  The US Senate reauthorized a controversial NSA spying program on Thursday – and then, because it’s 2018 and nothing matters any more, embarked on a partisan battle over a confidential memo that outlines Uncle Sam’s alleged abuse of surveillance powers.…

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Unlocked: The hidden love note on the grave of America’s first crypto power-couple

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Shmoocon  Among the 400,000 graves at the Arlington National Cemetery – a solemn US military graveyard in Virginia – lies the final resting place of cryptography pioneers William and Elizebeth Friedman.…

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Delve into the hidden corners of security at CyberThreat18

New event set to infiltrate QEII

Promo  If you are a cybersecurity practitioner who feels on top of the latest developments in your field, CyberThreat18 may make you want to think again.…

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VTech fondleslabs for kids ‘still vulnerable’ despite sanctions

Researchers claim flaws remain more than two years later

New InnoTab child learning devices still have the same security flaw first found by researchers at Pen Test Partners two years ago.…

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Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don’t bother bribing ’em

Also, don’t get the BOFH to publicly smack them with a LART

Usenix Enigma  It’s frustrating getting users to keep information and systems secure on a daily basis. However, don’t try any smart gimmicks – particularly offering wedges of cash or other prizes for good behavior.…

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Canada charges chap alleged to run stolen data-mart Leakedsource

Unlike similar services, this one sold purloined passwords

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has announced it has cuffed and charged a man for selling stolen identities and passwords at LeakedSource.com.…

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UK.gov denies data processing framework is ‘sinister’ – but admits ICO has concerns

Minister says commish is ‘free to disregard’ framework if it is ‘irrelevant’

The government has moved to allay fears over amendments to the Data Protection Bill that critics say could undermine both the law and the powers of the UK’s privacy watchdog.…

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Let’s Encrypt plugs hole that let miscreants grab HTTPS web certs for strangers’ domains

Shared hosting oversight bites free SSL/TLS certificate org

Let’s Encrypt – a SSL/TLS certificate authority run by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to programmatically provide websites with free certs for their HTTPS websites – on Thursday said it is discontinuing TLS-SNI validation because it’s insecure in the context of many shared hosting providers.…

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Intel puts security on the todo list, Tavis topples torrent tool, and more

A quick catch-up on infosec stuff beyond what we’ve already reported

Roundup  The security world is still feeling the aftereffects of last week’s CPU design flaw disclosures, which continued to dominate the news this week, even amid the noisy CES jamboree in Las Vegas.…

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Intel’s Meltdown fix freaked out some Broadwells, Haswells

Customers say PCs and servers reboot a lot after fixes. Meanwhile, AMD admits to Spectre problems

Intel has warned that the fix for its Meltdown and Spectre woes might have made PCs and servers less stable.…

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Ohio coder accused of infecting Macs, PCs with webcam, browser spyware for 13 years

Alleged Fruitfly creator faces decades in prison if guilty

A computer programmer has been accused of hacking, committing identity theft, and creating child pornography after allegedly developing custom malware to take control of thousands of computers.…

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Taiwanese cops give malware-laden USB sticks as prizes for security quiz

What was second prize? We think we’d rather have that

Winners of a security quiz staged by Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau may be wondering why they tried so hard to do well after some of the USB drives handed out as prizes turned out to be wretched hives of malware and villainy.…

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With WPA3, Wi-Fi will be secure this time, really, wireless bods promise

If at first you don’t succeed, try (WEP) try (WPA) try (WPA2)…

Wi-Fi security should become a bit less laughable with the pending introduction of the WPA3 protocol this year.…

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Smartphones’ security enhancements just make them more dangerous

Is that incriminating data in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Over the holidays I bought Apple’s newest, shiniest face scanner. For the first fortnight – and periodically since then, that constant lift-and-scan felt weird. As though my smartphone had suddenly become too intimate, too familiar.…

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Qualcomm joins Intel, Apple, Arm, AMD in confirming its CPUs suffer hack bugs, too

Just in time for Friday night

Qualcomm has confirmed its processors have the same security vulnerabilities disclosed this week in Intel, Arm, AMD and IBM CPU cores.…

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Security hole in AMD CPUs’ hidden secure processor revealed ahead of patches

Googler drops bug bomb in public – but don’t panic

Cfir Cohen, a security researcher from Google’s cloud security team, on Wednesday disclosed a vulnerability in the fTMP of AMD’s Platform Security Processor (PSP), which resides on its 64-bit x86 processors and provides administrative functions similar to the Management Engine in Intel chipsets.…

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Woo-yay, Meltdown CPU fixes are here. Now, Spectre flaws will haunt tech industry for years

Countermeasures to protect apps from attack

Analysis  Intel has borne the brunt of the damage from the revelation of two novel attack techniques, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, that affect the majority of modern CPUs in various ways.…

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Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

AMD, Arm also affected by data-leak design blunders, Chipzilla hit hardest

Summary  The severe design flaw in Intel microprocessors that allows sensitive data, such as passwords and crypto-keys, to be stolen from memory is real – and its details have been revealed.…

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Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

Four years ago Brit taxpayers spent £65m doing her up

The flagship of the Royal Navy, HMS Ocean, has been sold to Brazil for £84m, the South American country’s government has confirmed.…

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UK, US govt and pals on WannaCry culprit: It woz the Norks wot done it

Notorious Lazarus Group said to be behind mass infection

UK Foreign Office Minister Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon today claimed North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware incident.…

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TalkTalk banbans TeamTeamviewerviewer againagain

Remote access tool blocked for second time by Brit ISP

TalkTalk customers who need to use a remote desktop tool are on the warpath after the UK ISP blocked TeamViewer for the second time this year, ostensibly in an attempt to protect users from potential scammers.…

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