Sneaking in behind the hoopla of Tuesday’s MacBook spectacle was a set of security updates for virtually all of Apple’s supported products.…
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A newly developed class of brain implants could also become hacking targets, researchers are warning.…
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A group of Italian researchers have developed a blueprint for a massive virtualized enterprise network to allow for large-scale security tests without ruining an IT manager’s day.…
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Roundup This week’s headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…
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A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code on the box.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? First, an apology. Allow me to express my sincere regret for any offence caused by the videotape you will soon be receiving of your faithful servant buffing the old banana, courtesy of some mysterious stranger.…
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Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport numbers, has been accessed by unauthorised personnel in the latest security screw-up to hit the airline industry.…
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A malware infection at a Saudi petrochemical plant last year was likely the work of a Moscow-based research operation backed by the Russian government.…
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Morrisons has vowed to take its hack liability fight to the UK Supreme Court after failing to convince Court of Appeal judges it should not be held responsible for the actions of a rogue employee who leaked the supermarket’s entire payroll via Tor.…
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Microsoft’s former director of sports marketing has been indicted on five counts of wire fraud, based on allegations that he created fake invoices to defraud the software giant and sold its property as his own.…
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Miscreants are using a trio of NSA hacking tools, leaked last year by the Shadow Brokers, to infect and spy on computer systems used in aerospace, nuclear energy, and other industries.…
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Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…
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Analysis Transport Layer Security underpins much of the modern internet. It is the foundation of secure connections to HTTPS websites, for one thing. However, it can harbor a sting in its tail for those concerned about staying anonymous online.…
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People in the Googleplex need to talk to each other more: the Chocolate Factory has launched a third product with “Titan” in its name, and it’s only related to one of the other two bits of kit.…
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Eight D-Link router variants are vulnerable to complete pwnage via a combination of security screwups, and only two are going to get patched.…
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Sysadmins and netizens, it’s time to get serious about killing off old, buggy and insecure versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) – the encryption used to secure connections to HTTPS websites like your bank, El Reg, and so on.…
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising health professionals to keep an eye on some of the equipment they use to monitor pacemakers and other heart implants.…
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Roundup This week we caught wind of another Facebook blunder, a dodgy Patch Tuesday bundle, and more China trouble.…
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IBM has withdrawn a patch for a significant security vulnerability in its WebSphere Application Server after the code knackered some systems.…
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Infosec pros might have already noticed some familiar IP address ranges in their system logs – China has returned to the cyber-attack arena.…
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Google and Microsoft engineers have pooled their efforts to propose a protection against what are known as “replay attacks”.…
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Google has surprised Google+ users – all two of them – by vowing to shutter the service over the next ten months in the wake of a potential data leak.…
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Intel claims that “protecting our customers’ data and ensuring the security of our products is a top priority” for the semiconductor giant – however, security researcher Stefan Kanthak argues otherwise.…
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It has been a busy week for Russian military intelligence – and it’s about to get busier. A database search of car registrations appears to have outed more than 300 GRU agents.…
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roundup This week we all worried about bugged servers, North Korean APTs, and GRU hacking groups.…
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The Belgian researcher who last year gave the world the KRACK attack has returned with what he says is a refined version of the vulnerability.…
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Cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid has copped to blabbing customer and recipients’ email addresses, chalking it up to an overenthusiastic bit of indexing without explaining why pages were public-facing in the first place.…
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If you thought the monster battle between Google and Uber over alleged theft of its self-driving technology was over, you’d be wrong.…
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Privacy consultant and former Internet Architecture Board president Christian Huitema has said he reckons hotspot users should be given better privacy protection.…
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The UK’s Conservative Party has kicked off its annual conference by exposing its MPs’ phone numbers to anyone able to guess their email addresses.…
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