Friday FYI: 9 out of 10 of website login attempts? Yeah, that’ll be hackers

Credential stuffing is rampant – so try not to reuse the same password on every site, eh?

Up to 90 per cent of the average online retailer’s login traffic is generated by cybercriminals trying their luck with credential stuffing attacks, Shape Security estimated in its latest Credential Spill Report.…

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Microsoft: The Kremlin’s hackers are already sniffing, probing around America’s 2018 elections

Russia’s Fancy Bear crew caught gearing up for mid-terms

Microsoft says it has already uncovered evidence of Russian government-backed hacking gangs attempting to interfere in the 2018 US mid-term elections.…

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LabCorp ransomed, 18k routers rooted, a new EXIF menace, and more

Plus a new worry for enterprises over DNS flaws

Roundup  This was the week of blunders by Venmo, million-dollar bank heists, and beefier bug bounties.…

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Either my name, my password or my soul is invalid – but which?

Devising complex new passwords is character-building

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  Try as I might, it won’t go in.…

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Airbus UK infosec gros fromage: Yep, we work with arch-rivals Boeing

Says firm’s airliners designed with security foremost in mind

Airbus’s UK infosec chief, Ian Goslin, has said that cyber-attack attribution is a matter for “nation states” – and has questioned whether some critical national infrastructure companies are taking the infosec threat seriously.…

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PayPal’s pal Venmo spaffs your pals’ payments – and yours

200 million transactions visible to all, inc. the inside dope on a cannabis seller’s annual sales

PayPal-owned digital wallet Venmo shares way too much data via its public API, according to Berlin-based researcher Hang Do Thi Duc.…

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‘007’ code helps stop Spectre exploits before they exist

Singaporeans boffins offer Spectre-protector as Fortinet ponders Android inoculation

Black hats haven’t yet found a way to mass-exploit the Spectre vulnerability – but mitigations are already arriving.…

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GitHub to Pythonistas: Let us save you from vulnerable code

Third language added to security scanner

GitHub’s added Python to the list of programming languages it can auto-scan for known vulnerabilities.…

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Two-factor auth totally locks down Office 365? You may want to check all your services…

A network’s only as strong as its weakest link or worker

Hackers can potentially obtain access to Microsoft Office 365 emails and calendars even if multi-factor-authentication is in place, we were warned this week.…

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Hope for Hutchins, Navy sinks contractor, there’s another Russian hacking scandal, and more

Also, make sure you update your Juniper kit quickly

Roundup  This week, when we weren’t watching the football and sobbing uncontrollably, we saw security headaches at NPM and Ticketmaster, and a priest in hot water with cybercrime charges.…

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Google’s ghost busters: We can scare off Spectre haunting Chrome tabs

Site Isolation keeps pages fully separate on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS

Google is touting the benefits of a recently rolled out browser security feature called Site Isolation.…

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Ticketmaster breach ‘part of massive card-skimming campaign’

It gets worse, say researchers

The Ticketmaster breach was not a one-off, but part of a massive digital credit card-skimming campaign.…

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Infosec bootcamp, tools, exploit code, forensics and more: Get trained at SANS London Sept 2018

Build up your network defences, prep for certs

Promo  Keeping pace with a fast-changing security landscape is becoming an often baffling challenge for many organisations.…

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Evil third-party screens on smartphones are able to see all that you poke

Of course researchers added machine learning to the mix too

Smartphone hackers can glean secrets by analysing touchscreen user interactions, according to new research.…

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‘Domain Factory’ confirms January 2018 data breach

German name ‘n’ hosting outfit tells customers told to reset passwords after hacker taunts

German hosting company Domainfactory has taken down its forums after someone posted messages alleging to have compromised the company.…

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Snooping passwords from literally hot keys, China’s AK-47 laser, malware, and more

Your two-minute guide to the week’s infosec bits

Roundup  The week surrounding America’s “Huzzah, we kicked out the Brits, and will now spell color any way we like” Day, on July 4, is traditionally one of the slowest periods in the annual business tech news cycle.…

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Japanese Coinhive JS injector slapped with suspended sentence

Said to have netted only £34…

A Japanese man has received a suspended sentence for using the Coinhive cryptominer in a failed attempt to turn an illicit profit.…

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NSO Group bloke charged with $50m theft of government malware

Alleged unethical behavior from a grey hat? Who’d a thunk it?

A former worker at NSO Group – the Israeli biz infamous for selling zero-day exploits to governments nice and nasty – has been charged with stealing his employer’s spyware, and trying to sell it for $ 50m on the black market.…

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UK.gov: New London courthouse will focus on crimes of a cyber nature

Not just another generic court building. Oh no

London is to get a new court building, billed as a legal centre for tackling cyber and online economic crimes.…

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‘Plane Hacker’ Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap!

FBI botherer picks apart state of transport security

Interview  “Plane Hacker” Chris Roberts has called for countries to pressure manufacturers into improving the lamentable state of transportation security.…

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‘Coding’ cockup blamed for NHS cough-up of confidential info against patients’ wishes

Another day, another UK public health data breach

Confidential information on 150,000 NHS patients has been distributed against their wishes for years due to a “coding error” by healthcare software supplier TPP.…

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Boffins want to stop Network Time Protocol’s time-travelling exploits

Ancient protocol’s key vulnerability is fixable

Among the many problems that exist in the venerable Network Time Protocol is its vulnerability to timing attacks: turning servers into time-travellers can play all kinds of havoc with important systems.…

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And that’s now all three LTE protocol layers with annoying security flaws

Infosec wizards show how spies can snoop on website traffic, redirect browsers over 4G

Boffins have demonstrated how intelligence agencies and well-resourced hackers can potentially spy on people – by studying and meddling with mobile data flying over the airwaves.…

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