A bored trainee secretary at a GP practice has been fined for snooping on the health records of colleagues, friends and strangers.…
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Symantec says the biz that accused it of conspiring with others to avoid independent security audits is “less than honest” and driven by a “thirst for profits.”…
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A group of university researchers from around the globe have teamed up to develop what they say is a powerful new tool to root out security flaws.…
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An NCC Group graduate trainee who emailed 300 coworkers to ask for help with what she deemed to be “unusual” behaviour from her Kali Linux VM; contacted the firm’s incident response team to complain about a faulty laptop; and said the machine had been “deliberately sabotaged”, has had her victimisation claim thrown out by an employment tribunal.…
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Promo Defending organisations against security attacks is an ongoing challenge, with new threats constantly emerging to test the beleaguered security professional.…
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The “Zip Slip” vulnerability that first emerged in June has claimed another victim – the Apache Hadoop YARN NodeManager daemon.…
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German chat platform Knuddels.de (“Cuddles”) has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people, it’s 2018).…
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After faking one’s own death to defraud a life insurance company, it’s best to avoid being photographed alive and well, particularly when border agents may be reviewing those photos.…
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Diligent hackers have decided routers and cameras aren’t enough, and have reportedly crafted Mirai variants targeting Linux servers.…
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but Microsoft has pulled a couple of buggy patches in Office, but left a crash-worthy security fix in place.…
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Two miscreants were sent down by the Old Bailey yesterday for their role in the 2015 hacking of UK ISP TalkTalk.…
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Promo No matter how sophisticated your security precautions are, you can never assume your computer systems are impenetrable. Only the most alert and highly skilled defenders can fight off determined cybercriminals who know how to circumvent today’s advanced security and monitoring tools.…
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Roundup What a week it has been: we had the creation of a new government agency, a meltdown flashback, and of course, Patch Tuesday.…
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BlackBerry has made its biggest acquisition ever, spending over half of its cash pile to bolster its threat detection unit.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Work out loud,” my prospective new employer tells me, adding that “we are a team, not a family”. Sister Sledge need not apply.…
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Webcast If you like true crime stories, you already know that at the end the criminal is usually revealed to be someone the victim knew well.…
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One of three people charged over the December 2017 “swatting” death of 28-year-old Andrew Finch in the US has pleaded guilty.…
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Arriving at a recent conference organised by one of the government’s many regulatory bodies, I received my obligatory lanyard – and something else, credit-card-shaped, emblazoned with the branding for event. “What’s this?” I asked.…
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Google has claimed to have cut Android malware by half.…
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A bloke has told how he discovered a bug in Valve’s Steam marketplace that could have been exploited by thieves to steal game license keys and play pirated titles.…
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Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…
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Three years after the governments of America and China agreed not to hack corporations in each other’s countries, experts say Beijing is now back to its old ways.…
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The man accused over DDoS-bombing several online games hosts in 2013 and 2014 has entered a guilty plea under a deal with US authorities.…
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Backgrounder Recent headlines have been full of IT security breaches at major corporations, such as the theft of customer data from British Airways in September 2018. Yet, smaller companies should not believe that they fly beneath the radar of attackers.…
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Google today pushed out the November edition of its monthly Android security updates, giving carriers and device makers a fresh set of patches to install. Fingers cross the patches are rolled out to you ASAP.…
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Promo Information security training specialist SANS promises that its fourth European Security Awareness Summit will be its biggest yet.…
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Roundup This week there were Hacked Home Hubs, buggered BBC Bits, and PortSmash privilege punch-ups.…
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Iran apparently infiltrated the communications network of CIA agents who allowed their secret websites, used to exchange messages with informants, to be crawled by Google.…
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Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways’ website.…
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Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways’ website.…
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The UK’s data watchdog has slapped a £220,000 fine on two firms that collectively made hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls to flog home security services.…
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