Various single-sign-on systems can be hoodwinked to allow miscreants to log in as strangers without their password, all thanks to bungled programming.…
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Guitar amp manufacturer Fender’s recently-introduced Mustang GT 100 guitar amplifier can made to play whatever audio an attacker fancies, security researchers have discovered.…
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A group of boffins working at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that “private” browsing modes aren’t private, so have given developers a framework to fix it.…
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Roundup Happy weekend, everyone. Here’s a roundup of computer security news beyond everything we’ve already reported this week.…
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ANalysis US judges have shut down an appeal from a convicted pedophile who claimed the FBI hacking of his computer was an illegal and unreasonable search.…
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Letters sent to the United States Congress by Intel and the other six companies in the Meltdown/Spectre disclosure cabal have revealed how and why they didn’t inform the wider world about the dangerous chip design flaws.…
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Users of uTorrent should grab the latest versions of the popular torrenting tools: serious security bugs, which malicious websites can exploit to commandeer PCs, were squashed this week in the software.…
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An extraordinary 43 per cent of all attempted online account logins are malicious, Akamai claims in its latest internet security report.…
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Here’s a salutary reminder why it pays to patch promptly: a Jenkins bug patched last year became the vector for a multi-million-dollar cryptocurrency mining hijack.…
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A year after the SWIFT international bank transfer system enhanced its security, another breach has emerged: an Indian bank has confirmed that criminals gained access to its systems and made transfers totalling US$ 1.8 million.…
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Roundup Here’s a summary of this week’s security news beyond what we’ve already reported.…
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Intel says it is facing 32 separate class-action lawsuits following the revelations it shipped millions of processors with security design flaws dubbed Meltdown and Spectre.…
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Two Russian criminals have been sent down in America after pleading guilty to helping run the largest credit-card hacking scam in US history.…
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The United Kingdon’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has formally “attributed the NotPetya cyber-attack to the Russian Government”, specifically the nation’s military.…
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Microsoft’s wanted a really good federated identity scheme ever since the early 2000s, when it gave the world Project Hailstorm, aka “.Net My Services”, to let a web of online services know a little about you and the information you are happy to share with others.…
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UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a tool that purports to detect and block jihadist content online, and tech companies may end up being legally required to use it.…
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IBM has warned that bugs in its Notes auto-updater mean the service can be tricked into running malicious code.…
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Engineers at Russia’s top nuclear weapons lab have been arrested – after the eggheads were caught using one of the supercomputers to mine cryptocurrency.…
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Roundup Here’s a roundup of this week’s security news, beyond what we’ve already covered, to kickstart your weekend.…
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VMware’s advised on how to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws in several of its products.…
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The confidential source code to Apple’s iBoot firmware in iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices has been leaked into a public GitHub repo.…
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Tens of thousands of websites are going to find themselves labeled as unsafe unless they switch out their HTTPS certificate in the next two months.…
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US authorities have arrested a pair suspected of being involved in a recent wave of Automatic Teller Machine “Jackpotting” heists.…
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The Royal Air Force has moved one of its air defence radars onto the northern tip of the Shetland Islands as Cold War-era fears about Russian military movements start warming up again.…
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Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in smart sex toys that open up the potential for all sorts of mischief by hackers.…
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Roundup Here’s a summary of this week’s infosec news beyond what we’ve already covered in detail.…
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Promo Sometimes it can seem like the IT security landscape is shifting so fast that you have to keep running on the spot just to stay upright. A new event coming to London this month aims to help exhausted security professionals breathe easy, confident they have the information they need to meet the risks ahead.…
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has emitted another small advance in its program to protect as much of the Internet as it can, with a request that email systems finish encrypting all their connections.…
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