The New York Times has published what it says are excerpts from hacked EU diplomatic cables that a cybersecurity company apparently made available to reporters.…
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The US has been told once again to appoint a permanent ombudsperson to oversee the deal governing transatlantic data flows, but this time has been given a deadline.…
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The 2018 calendar year saw an interesting mix of both technical and strategic questions, as engineers were met with new problems and execs were forced to cope with stark new realities.…
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Microsoft today emitted an emergency security patch for a flaw in Internet Explorer that hackers are exploiting in the wild to hijack computers.…
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Uber has been slapped with a €400,000 fine by the French data protection agency for the hack that exposed the data of 57 million users.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? I want to be your backdoor man. Or so asserted Robert Plant at the end of Whole Lotta Love. Hey ho.…
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Two men, linked to the Chinese government, stand accused of hacking cloud giants, aerospace and defense companies, chip designers, US government agencies – including the Navy – and other organizations globally.…
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A German man was very confused when he received, at his request, all the information that Amazon possessed on him.…
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Roundup If you’re reading this while on-call for IT support, network security, or what have you, then we salute you. If you’re reading this to avoid Christmas present wrapping or hobnobbing with awkward relatives, or similar, then, well, let us shake your hand.…
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No flights have arrived at or left London’s Gatwick Airport since just before 21:00 UTC last night after drones were apparently spotted over the airspace.…
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Promo Back in 2008, San Francisco’s IT infrastructure ground to a halt. An engineer called Terry Childs who managed the network had consolidated all the sysadmin credentials giving access to the system’s privileged accounts, but after a dispute with the city government he refused to divulge these vital details.…
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Roundup We are now firmly into the holiday season, the Christmas parties are kicking off, and folks are swapping their Excel files for eggnog, or something cliched like that.…
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A group of criminal asswipes have managed to steal $ 1m from the Save the Children Foundation.…
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It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy fail.…
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Yesterday’s ‘bomb scare’ spam campaign may have been a follow-up to another infamous email extortion effort.…
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UK security training company Hacker House briefly had its site blocked after being mistaken for malware by Cisco’s security wing Talos’ smart “threat intelligence” software.…
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An ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits has experienced such sustained hack attacks that officials have had to shift the data to a Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility in Wiltshire.…
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The National Republican Congressional Committee, the Republican Party’s campaigning arm, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a major compromise of its email system.…
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Someone’s taken a wander through the systems of question-and-answer website Quora, pilfering account details of 100 million users.…
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Did your work printer produce a strange call to action this week, urging you to follow a tasteless twerp on YouTube, and then offer you a “bro fist” made up of punctuation marks?…
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Roundup November ended with a week of medical mishaps, near disaster at Dell, and the introduction of Pesky Pepper.…
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Crypto boffins have found a way to exploit side-channel information to downgrade most of the current TLS implementations, thanks to ongoing support for outmoded RSA key exchanges.…
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