Any social media accounts to declare? US wants travelers to tell

The State Department seeks to expand its social media vetting beyond flagged visa applicants

The US Department of State wants to ask visa applicants to provide details on the social media accounts they’ve used in the past five years, as well as telephone numbers, email addresses, and international travel during this period.…

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Microsoft patches patch for Meltdown bug patch: Windows 7, Server 2008 rushed an emergency fix

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re Redmond

Microsoft today issued an emergency security update to correct a security update it issued earlier this month to correct a security update it issued in January and February.…

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Train to be a top cybercrime fighter at SANS London June 2018

Hands-on workshops, extra evening sessions – hoodies optional

Promo  As the global volume of data rises like an unstoppable tide, IT systems grow increasingly complex and sophisticated to accommodate it – yet cyber criminals constantly find ingenious new ways of stealing vital information or disrupting systems.…

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Intel shrugs off ‘new’ side-channel attacks on branch prediction units and SGX

Been there, mitigated that, got the class actions, says Chipzilla

Intel’s shrugged off two new allegations of design flaws that enable side-channel attacks.…

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GCHQ’s infosec crew plans to ‘scale up’ Web Check to improve uk.gov site security

That’s the National Cyber Security Centre when it’s at home

Efforts to improve the UK.gov’s secure server setup are being ramped up through an expansion of a scheme from the National Cyber Security Centre, the infosec folk at British crypto and intel agency GCHQ.…

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We need to go deeper: Meltdown and Spectre flaws will force security further down the stack

Turns out performance at all costs has been rather costly

Around 2003, a computer security portent that had been cheerlessly simmering away for years suddenly came to the boil.…

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Guccifer 2.0 outed, Kaspersky slammed, Oz radio hacker in the slammer, and more

Top tip: Switch on the VPN when doing naughty hacking, товарищ!

Roundup  Here’s your easy-to-digest round up of information security news beyond everything we’ve already covered this week.…

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World celebrates, cyber-snoops cry as TLS 1.3 internet crypto approved

Forward-secrecy protocol comes with the 28th draft

A much-needed update to internet security has finally passed at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), after four years and 28 drafts.…

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Microsoft to re-enforce March patch that owns Windows over RDP

Firm that found flaw says un-patched RDP clients face lockout

Black Hat Asia  Microsoft will soon prevent Windows from authenticating un-patched RDP clients to cap a March patch addressed a flaw that can allow lateral movement across a network from a compromised remote desktop protocol session.…

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F-35B Block 4 software upgrades will cost Britain £345m

After we leave the EU we could cover that in a week with change to spare … allegedly

Britain will spend £345m ($ 486m) upgrading its F-35B fighter jets to the most recent, combat-ready, version of the aircraft’s operating system.…

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Creaking Chromebooks getting Meltdown protection soon

Chrome OS 66 to protect older Intel units, still working on ARM

Older Chromebook owners should keep an eye open for Chrome OS updates, because Google has announced they’ll get Meltdown protection soon.…

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Leading by example: UK.gov’s secure server setup is patchy at best

Many .gov websites ‘broken, misconfigured or insecure’

The security of UK government websites is inconsistent, and local authorities are among the worst offenders.…

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Facebook suspends account of Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower

Social network plans to ‘take action’ against all who misused data

UPDATED  Chris Wylie, the whistleblower who has alleged the knowingly improper use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica, says The Social Network™ has suspended his account.…

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Crooks opt for Monero as crypto of choice to launder ill-gotten gains

Study examines the cutting edge of cybercrime

Crooks are increasingly turning to Monero over Bitcoin, according to a new study on the economics of cybercrime.…

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AMD security flaw saga, browsers broken, Lamo dead at 37, and more

It’s the week in security

Roundup  The lingering fallout of security flaws in AMD processor chipsets has dominated the news this week, and it ain’t over yet.…

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Ugh, of course Germany trounces Blighty for cyber security salaries

Britons never, never, never shall be wage slaves. Oh wait

Cyber security professionals in Germany earn on average 17 per cent more than their UK counterparts.…

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VPN tests reveal privacy-leaking bugs

Hotspot Shield patched; Zenmate and VPN Shield haven’t … yet?

A virtual private network recommendation site decided to call in the white hats and test three products for bugs, and the news wasn’t good.…

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Samba settings SNAFU lets any user change admin passwords

Patch or risk Revenge Of The Users

Samba admins: get patching and/or updating. Unless you’re content to have your admin passwords overwritten by, well, anyone else using Samba.…

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CEO of smartmobe outfit Phantom Secure cuffed after cocaine sting, boast of murder-by-GPS

No ‘legitimate users’ of modded Blackberries, says FBI

An arrest by US authorities last week has brought to light alleged associations between encrypted phone supplier Phantom Secure and international drug trafficking.…

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Cavalry riding to the rescue of DDOS-deluged memcached users

Attacks tapering, as experts argue over ‘kill switch’

DDoS attacks taking advantage of ill-advised use of memcached have begun to decline, either because sysadmins are securing the process, or because people are using a potentially-troublesome “kill switch”.…

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Less than half of paying ransomware targets get their files back

Shock revelation: criminals prove to be untrustworthy

Paying off a ransomware demand is a great way to end up losing both your money and your files.…

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Auto manufacturers are asleep at the wheel when it comes to security

And rising car thefts suggest the criminals are taking advantage

Cars are getting smarter every year but their increasing computational power isn’t being backed up by good IT security practices – hacking them is child’s play.…

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Carnegie Mellon makes network security guru Jahanian president

Chalk one up for the infosec nerds: Arbor founder takes top uni post

Carnegie Mellon University has named computer science professor and Arbor Networks founder Farnam Jahanian as its new president.…

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Sigh. Cisco security kit has Java deserialisation bug and a default password SNAFU

Two critical vulnerabilities among 20 patches

Cisco’s security developers have served up a parcel of patches.…

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UK.gov cooks up code of conduct to enforce a smidge of security on Internet of S**t kit

No legislation or fines, are you some kind of IdIoT?

The makers of connected devices will be expected to build in security measures to prevent cyber threats, under a draft “code of conduct” issued by the UK government today.…

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Miner vs miner: Attack script seeks out and destroys competing currency exploits

There is no honour among CPU thieves

Cryptocurrency-mining malware-scum have started to write code that evicts rivals from compromised computers.…

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Cryptocurrency miners go nuclear, RSA blunder, Winner back in court, and plenty more

The ups and downs of security this week

Roundup  Here’s a quick summary of infosec news from this week, beyond what we’ve already covered.…

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US Navy gives Lockheed Martin $150m big frickin’ laser cannon contract

It is supposed to ‘dazzle’ drones rather than fry them

Lockheed Martin, makers of the F-35 and various other bits of defence hardware, has been handed a $ 150m contract by the US Navy to build two bloody great laser cannons.…

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RedDrop nasty infects Androids via adult links, records sound, and fires off premium-rate texts

Baidu users, beware

A newly discovered strain of Android malware makes live recordings of ambient audio around an infected device.…

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Train to become an expert cyber crime fighter

Get prep’d for certs to prove your worth

Promo  As cyber threats seem to multiply and mutate at ever-increasing speed, it becomes difficult to be sure you are able defend your organisation against an attack that could come from any direction.…

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Spectre haunts Intel’s SGX defense: CPU flaws can be exploited to snoop on enclaves

And no, you’re not supposed to be able to do that

Vid  The Spectre design flaws in modern CPUs can be exploited to punch holes through the walls of Intel’s SGX secure environments, researchers claim.…

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