A notorious hacking group suspected in attacks across dozens of countries has launched a campaign against banks in eastern Europe and Russia.…
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Inhouse email filters still miss millions of attacks – including malware attachments, impersonation and malicious links – the latest quarterly stats from cloud provider Mimecast have found.…
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A newfound way to hack Android using a technique dubbed “Man-in-the-Disk” is central to the recent security flap about Fortnite on the mobile platform.…
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Schools across the UK may have thought results fever was over for another year – but, thanks to the nation’s privacy watchdog, they might not get to relax just yet.…
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Roundup Summer rolls on, Reg vultures are making the most of their hols before the September rush hits, and in the past week, we saw Lazarus malware targeting Macs, Adobe scrambling to get an emergency patch out, and Democrats losing their minds over a simple training exercise.…
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McAfee has pulled a version of its Endpoint Security software after folks reported the antivirus software was crashing their Windows machines.…
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Facebook has patched a remote-code execution flaw discovered in one of its servers.…
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T-Mobile US has fallen victim to a data breach, the company confirmed in a brief note on its website.…
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BSides Manchester A children’s nurse prescribed hospitals ways to improve their computer security at the BSides conference in Manchester, England, earlier this month.…
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While law enforcement continues its worldwide crusade against chat apps with end-to-end encryption, the Internet Engineering Task Force has proposed standards designed to let everybody have message security.…
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More than five years after cracks started showing in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) network crypto protocol, the author of the “Lucky 13” attack has poked holes in the fixes that were subsequently deployed.…
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Most people’s DNS queries – by which browsers and other software resolve domain names into IP addresses – remain unprotected while flowing over the internet.…
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Updated If you were at BSides Manchester in England this week, you hopefully caught James Williams’ presentation on the shortcomings of some commercial antivirus tools.…
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Roundup It’s time for another rapid roundup of computer security news beyond what we’ve already reported.…
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BSides Manchester What happens to the numerous user logins you’ve accumulated after you die or become too infirm to manipulate a keyboard?…
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A security plug-in for the Firefox browser is under fire after users discovered it was collecting and uploading their online activity.…
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Interview In the wake of yet another collection of Intel bugs, The Register had the chance to speak to Foreshadow co-discoverer and University of Adelaide and Data61 researcher Dr Yuval Yarom about its impact.…
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If you missed the OpenSSL update released in May, go back and get it: a Georgia Tech team recovered a 2048-bit RSA key from OpenSSL using smartphone processor radio emissions, in a single pass.…
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DEF CON American police and the judiciary are increasingly relying on software to catch, prosecute and sentence criminal suspects, but the code is untested, unavailable to suspects’ defense teams, and in some cases provably biased.…
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Black Hat A forgotten family of x86-compatible processors still used in specialist hardware, and touted for “military-grade security features,” has a backdoor that malware and rogue users can exploit to completely hijack systems.…
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Roundup This week, the infosec world descended on Las Vegas for BlackHat and DEF CON to share stories of bug hunting, malware neural nets, hefty payout offers, and more.…
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Black Hat Four years ago, IOActive security researcher Ruben Santamarta came to Black Hat USA to warn about insecurities in aircraft satellite-communication (SATCOM) systems. Now he’s back with more doom and gloom.…
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Researchers have uncovered security shortcomings in WhatsApp that create a means for hackers to intercept and manipulate messages sent in both private and group conversations.…
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