The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has joined the ranks of objectors to proposed law enforcement measures that would compromise access to strong cryptography.…
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Lithuania’s proposal that the European Union create an international cyber-force has been endorsed, and the effort already has seven countries on board.…
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More than 60 privacy groups and activists have demanded that member states still engaging in blanket data retention of communications info – despite it being ruled unlawful – are referred to the EU’s top court.…
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A group of researchers has demonstrated that smartphone batteries can offer a side-channel attack vector by revealing what users do with their devices through analysis of power consumption.…
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Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by malware to extract encryption keys and other sensitive info from applications.…
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Roundup This week you had to deal with AI security panic, fake Fortnite, and, if you use OpenBSD, the end of Intel HyperThread support…
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Israel Cyber Week With insecure computers in charge, the healthcare and transportation sectors have become a nexus of security problems, infosec veteran Bruce Schneier warned delegates at Israel Cyber Week.…
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Israel Cyber Week Israel is planning to develop a “state-level cyber-shield” to improve its resilience against hacking and malware, the country’s newly appointed cyberczar said on Wednesday.…
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The head of GCHQ has publicly called for security co-operation with Britain’s EU allies to continue after Brexit.…
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Israel Cyber Week Healthcare regulations oblige medical equipment vendors to focus on developing the next generation of technologies rather than addressing current cybersecurity issues, according to experts presenting at the eighth Israel Cyber Week.…
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BSides Industrial control systems could be exposed not just to remote hackers, but to local attacks and physical manipulation as well.…
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Roundup This week included a big Patch Tuesday bundle, a fresh fine for Yahoo!, and yet another Intel bug that potentially exposes sensitive kernel information.…
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A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative execution, the data processing technique behind the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.…
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The Xen Project has revealed that its hypervisor is susceptible to the Lazy FPU flaw found in Intel’s x86 CPUs.…
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Video Time may be up for America’s plucky Opportunity rover that has trundled across the surface of Mars for more than 14 years.…
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Retailer Dixons Carphone has gone public about a hack attack involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records.…
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The recently released OnePlus 6 smartphone allows the booting of arbitrary images, security researchers at Edge Security have discovered.…
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Chief information security officers (CISOs) must prepare for the ending of intel and law enforcement agreements with the EU post-Brexit, a report from Forrester has warned.…
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Roundup This week brought new charges for Marcus Hutchins, a novel way to sneak malware into archives, and shady hotspots for World Cup fans.…
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning – rather than Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation – emerged as a key theme of the Infosecurity Europe Conference.…
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Former GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan has warned that the emergence of a commodity marketplace for hacking has changed and escalated the threat.…
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ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE: these are the vendors newly-named by Cisco’s Talos Intelligence as being exploited by the malware scum running the VPNFilter attacks, and the attack’s been spotted hitting endpoints behind vulnerable kit.…
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The upcoming soccer World Cup will present no shortage of security dangers for travelers looking to get online in the host cities.…
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Earlier this year I lamented the inevitable death of Moore’s Law – crushed between process node failures and exploits attacking execution efficiencies. Yet that top line failure of Moore’s Law hides the fact that chips in general are now cheap.…
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Privacy of medical data and the machinations of surveillance capitalism were under the spotlight at a Cambridge University symposium last week.…
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Someone may have spied on smartphones in or near the White House using a fake cellphone tower – and miscreants are said to have abused SS7 weaknesses to swipe US citizens’ private information, it emerged this week.…
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Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting security news going on.…
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The US House of Representatives has once again advanced a law bill that would always require the FBI and cops to obtain a warrant from a judge before forcing email providers to hand over people’s messages.…
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