A US district court has upheld the American government’s ban of Kaspersky Lab software from computers of federal agencies.…
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Every industry has its collection of shocking stories, but Britain’s cyber-insurance sector can always be relied on to top the lot.…
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A Manchester man has won his case against former employer the Department for Work and Pensions, after a superior shared “highly private” medical information with his colleagues.…
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The FBI has reminded the world it wants us to reboot our routers to try and help it identify VPNFilter-affected routers.…
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Roundup While this week was dominated by news of a new Spectre variant, the VPNFilter botnet, and TalkTalk’s badbad routersrouters, plenty of other stories popped up.…
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German researchers reckon they have devised a method to thwart the security mechanisms AMD’s Epyc server chips use to automatically encrypt virtual machines in memory.…
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In an update last week, the developers of Electron – the toolkit used to craft widely used apps from Skype and Slack to Atom – shipped a patch to their January patch, and now, an infosec researcher has explained why.…
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London cops will not use controversial and inaccurate facial recognition technology at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival – in a departure from the trend over the previous two years.…
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A security audit conducted by Tencent’s Keen Security Lab on BMW cars has given the luxury automaker a handy crop of bugs to fix – including a backdoor in infotainment units fitted since 2012.…
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A vet recruitment consultant that squirrelled away the personal details of almost 300 people from his former employer was today slapped on the wrists by the UK’s information watchdog.…
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Already under attack by Russia’s telecommunications regulator, a new source of woe has emerged for crypto-chat app Telegram: malware.…
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Identity theft has hit record levels in the UK – the vast majority of incidents are online. The UK’s largest cross-sector fraud sharing databases, Cifas recently logged 174,523 incidents finding eight out of 10 took place online.…
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Roundup Here’s your guide to this week’s infosec news beyond what we’ve already covered.…
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The parade of bad privacy news this week has managed to get even worse, as one of the companies associated with the selling of phone locations for cash scandal was subject to a publicly exploitable bug.…
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Britain’s first permanently based F-35B fighter jets are due to arrive in our green and pleasant land in June.…
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Canonical has responded to last week’s discovery that its Snap store carried apps containing embedded crypto-currency miners, by pledging to introduce a “verified developer” program.…
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London cops’ facial recognition kit has only correctly identified two people to date – neither of whom were criminals – and the force has made no arrests using it, figures published today revealed.…
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A professor of Computer Security at the Münster University of Applied Sciences has warned that popular email encryption tool Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) might actually allow Pretty Grievous P0wnage thanks to bugs that can allow supposedly encrypted emails to be read as plaintext.…
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Roundup Here’s a roundup of everything that’s happened in the world of infosec this week, beyond what we’ve already covered.…
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Vulnerabilities on the Wi-Fi networks of a number of rail operators could expose customers’ credit card information, according to infosec biz Pen Test Partners this week.…
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The ban on shining lasers at cars and aeroplanes has been strengthened with a five-year prison sentence now available for those who train their laser pointers on ships, aircraft or air traffic control towers.…
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There is no doubt that the UK’s surveillance regimes will come under scrutiny in negotiations on continued data flows with Europe after Brexit, and the government needs to start preparing for that now, MPs have been told.…
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Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and some implementations of Xen have a design flaw that could allow attackers to, at best, crash Intel and AMD-powered computers.…
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Equifax has published yet more details on the personal records and sensitive information stolen by miscreants after they hacked its databases in 2017.…
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Two comp-sci boffins have proposed that websites cooperate to block password re-use, even though they predict the idea will generate “contempt” among many end users, .…
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Researchers have unearthed a fresh new set of ways attackers could potentially exploit data-leaking Spectre CPU vulnerabilities in Intel chips.…
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NPM, the biz responsible for the Node Package Manager for JavaScript and Node.js, has caught a miscreant trying to tamper with web cookie modules on Wednesday and managed to exile the individual and associated code before significant harm was done.…
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Promo As the security landscape constantly changes, keeping your data and systems safe from a growing variety of attacks becomes more challenging than ever.…
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It’s time for Cisco’s Midweek Misery, netadmins, with four critical vulns to patch and a slew of others to look over if you have time.…
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North Korea’s very own antivirus software has been revealed as based on a 10-year-old application made by Trend Micro, but with added nasties.…
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Security researchers have caught a Bitcoin-hijacking Chrome extension that only managed to grab one BitCoin transaction before being exposed.…
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