Roundup One or two things happened this week on the security front, like the elimination of the White House cyber czar, the massive leak of code from Aeroflot , and the debut of UEFI rootkits.…
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The Australian teen who last month admitted hacking into Apple’s internal network and stealing data from the Cupertino giant has been spared jail.…
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Researchers from the University of Oslo in Norway have developed a system that tries to combat rogue employees and inside jobs – by combining cyber and real-world security knowhow.…
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Cunning malware VPNFilter remains under active development, and is acquiring ever more dangerous features.…
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Canadian Center for Cyber Security chief Scott Jones has told a parliamentary committee there’s no need for the country to cut Chinese comms giant Huawei out of its 5G rollout.…
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Interview El Reg had the honour of speaking with a war hero last Friday when the UK’s National Museum of Computing fired up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt messages sent from Poland.…
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The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…
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Analysis Nothing super-fuels a security sales pitch like the sort of threat it’s hard to ignore.…
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Roundup When we weren’t dealing with malware bricked-breweries, poorly-wiped servers or litigious vendors, we had a number of other security headaches to keep busy with.…
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The Ministry of Defence has too many bigshots and not enough grunts – or cash – to reliably keep Britain’s nuclear deterrent hiding beneath the ocean waves, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee.…
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Comment It’s exasperating how each high-profile computer security breach reveals similar patterns of failure, no matter the organization involved.…
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Dutch security firm Gemalto has said its blockchain product, slated to pilot later this year, will keep personal data off the blockchain.…
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The UK’s TV Licensing agency has admitted that 25,000 viewers were induced into sending their bank details over an insecure connection.…
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Who’s hacking into university systems? Here’s a clue from the UK higher education tech crew at Jisc: the attacks drop dramatically during summer break.…
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An infosec bod has documented a remote-code execution flaw in Alpine Linux, a distro that pops up a lot in Docker containers.…
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Roundup This was the week of ice cold exploits, re-appearing JavaScript nasties, and of course Patch Tuesday. A few other things happened too……
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Details of a locally exploitable but kernel-level flaw in Webroot’s SecureAnywhere macOS security software were revealed yesterday, months after the bug was patched.…
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Capital One is facing criticism for using policies on its banking website that prevent the use of password managers.…
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Promo Worried about today’s IT dangers and how they will affect your organisation? Cybersecurity firm Sophos is inviting IT professionals to a free “See the Future” event in London on Tuesday, 9 October.…
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Security experts are debating the cause of the British Airways mega-breach, with external scripts on its payment systems emerging as a prime suspect in the hack.…
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Apple has removed an app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the macOS App Store following claims it sent users’ browser histories to a remote server in China.…
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The upcoming 2020 US presidential election should be conducted on paper, since there is no way currently to make electronic and internet voting secure.…
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Roundup This week brought with it a Supermicro shoring up firmware security, a North Korean hacking charge, and a spying anti-adware macOS tool getting yanked by Apple from its App Store. Elsewhere, we had……
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Cisco has taken delivery of a bulk order for 29 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) IDs.…
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Researchers based in Germany have discovered how to spoof certificates they don’t own – even if the certs are protected by the PKI-based domain validation.…
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A British teenager has pleaded guilty in court to making hoax bomb threats to schools and airports while posing online as part of a hacker crew, a police agency has alleged.…
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Internet-connected 3D printers are at risk of being tampered with or even sabotaged because users fail to apply security controls, a researcher has warned.…
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A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.…
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At some point this fall, a team of researchers from MIT’s CSAIL and UC Berkeley’s EECS aim to deliver an initial version of an open source, formally verified, secure hardware enclave based on RISC-V architecture called Keystone.…
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Another week has come and gone. This one included some Fortnite flaws, a nasty Intel bug, and a voting machine maker whining about hacking contests.…
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