Welcome to yet another El Reg security roundup. Off we go.…
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Promo On December 9, SANS will launch its second annual KringleCon virtual conference followed shortly thereafter by its 13th Holiday Hack Challenge.…
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Updated Twitter security celeb SwiftOnSecurity on Tuesday inadvertently disclosed a zero-day vulnerability affecting enterprise software biz Atlassian, a flaw that may be echoed in IBM’s Aspera software.…
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The Firefox extensions built by Avast have been pulled from the open-source browser’s online add-on store over privacy fears.…
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Parcel wrangler Yodel has corked up a security hole in which random user data leaked to people using its Android app.…
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Promo As more and more organisations move to new technologies, data thieves constantly try to find ingenious new ways of penetrating even the most well-protected systems.…
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Ethical hacking is a “redundant term” but to be a “hacker” is no longer a bad thing, according to proponents of the cybersecurity art form known as “penetration testing”.…
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Roundup Here’s a summary of recent infosec news beyond what we’ve already covered – earlier than usual because some of us have Thanksgiving to get through in the US. By the way, watch out for hackers taking advantage of IT teams suffering turkey comas.…
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Google has said it fired off 12,000 warnings to unlucky users of its GMail, Drive and YouTube services telling them that they’re being phished by state-backed hackers.…
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Cloud-‘n’-comms biz Datrix has suffered a phishing attack that resulted in some customers’ contact details being compromised – though the company reckons it contained the attack within 15 minutes.…
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A French hospital has suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly caused the lockdown of 6,000 computers.…
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Twitter and Facebook on Monday claimed some third-party apps quietly collected swathes of personal information from people’s accounts without permission.…
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Promo The IT security landscape changes by the second, as organisations move to new technologies and data thieves devise increasingly ingenious ways to penetrate systems. It’s no surprise that IT security leaders feel the constant need to shore up their defenses.…
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VNC remote desktop software has no shortage of potentially serious memory-corruption vulnerabilities, you’ll no doubt be shocked to hear.…
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Roundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that’s fit to print and that we haven’t covered yet.…
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Developers working on open-source ad-blocker uBlock Origin have uncovered a mechanism for tracking web browsers around the internet that defies today’s blocking techniques.…
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The UK’s tax authorities have issued an official warning to contractors to watch out for self-assessment scams – and they don’t mean IR35 for a change.…
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Multinational police agency Interpol is due to say that tech companies deploying strong encryption helps paedophiles – unless they build backdoors for police workers.…
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It’s time for another Register security roundup of the week’s smaller stories you may have missed.…
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Some 14 years after it was founded and with no external funding taken in during that time, 1Password has finally succumbed to the charms – and $ 200m in cash – of venture cap biz Accel.…
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A US court has sentenced the operator of a massive DDoS service to 13 months in prison.…
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Common behaviors shared across all families of ransomware are helping security vendors better spot and isolate attacks.…
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The UK’s Information Commissioner urged the Court of Appeal to side with Morrisons in the supermarket’s battle to avoid liability for the theft and leaking of nearly 100,000 employees’ payroll details – despite not having read the employees’ legal arguments.…
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A man will appear at Crown court in December to answer charges that he used hacking program Sentry MBA to access and take money from online UK National Lottery gambling accounts.…
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The flurry of reports in recent weeks of in-the-wild exploits for the Windows RDP ‘BlueKeep’ security flaw had little impact among those responsible for patching, it seems.…
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Roundup Time for a look at some of the other security stories making the rounds in the past week.…
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A judge in the US state of Georgia is facing hacking charges after she allegedly hired private investigators to look into what she believed was a spyware infection on her office computer.…
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“Cutting to the chase, it’s not a case where the office cleaner finds a thumb drive, picks it up and takes the opportunity to make some use of it,” barrister Jonathan Barnes told the Supreme Court as he urged judges to dismiss Morrisons’ appeal against liability for its 2014 payroll data breach.…
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Staff were cuffed in a police raid on Thursday at the offices of US surveillance equipment vendor Aventura Technologies. The workers are now facing criminal charges for allegedly passing off Chinese-made gear as stuff built in America, and selling it to Uncle Sam and its military.…
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Disclosure The way we rate the severity of computer security vulnerabilities and bugs needs to change if people and businesses want to be better protected from malware and cyber-crime.…
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Disclosure Bug-bounty pioneer Katie Moussouris has urged companies to hire the necessary staff to handle vulnerability disclosures before diving headlong into handing out rewards.…
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A security hole in Office for Mac can be exploited by miscreants to potentially run malicious code on victims’ shiny computers without anyone noticing.…
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Roundup Let’s check out some of the more recent security happenings beyond what we’ve already covered.…
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A £100,000 government grant to Jennifer Arcuri’s infosec training business, Hacker House, has been flagged as “appropriate” following an investigation.…
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Scandi furniture emporium Ikea is seeking privacy specialists to join its office in Malmö, Sweden.…
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The US Air Force (USAF) has declared it is awarding a contract to Raytheon thanks to its pressing need for “full ARSE compatibility”, including Windows 10 support, with equipment designed for maintaining fighter jet missiles.…
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Two men have confessed they siphoned confidential information from databases hosted in the Amazon cloud, and then demanded payment to delete their copies of the data.…
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Security flaws have been found in the European Union’s electronic identity system that could have been exploited by miscreants to impersonate member states’ citizens online.…
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The Russian hacking crew known as Fancy Bear is thought to be actively targeting anti-doping sports agencies.…
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A competition to produce stock pictures of infosec that does not involve hoodies or waterfalls of 0s and 1s has yielded a mixed bag of images to illustrate the industry’s digital doings for the world’s consumption.…
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The US government has gone back to court in a bid to get a summary judgement against whistleblower Edward Snowden and Macmillan – the publisher of his memoir, Permanent Record.…
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Adobe has pulled offline a public-facing poorly secured Elasticsearch database containing information on 7.5 million Creative Cloud customers.…
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The iOS App Store is 18 applications lighter today after the software was caught harboring malware that secretly clicked on ads, signed up punters for premium services, or deliberately overloaded websites.…
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GP online services app Evergreen Life has been the target of a cyber-attack attempting to access the firm’s corporate email accounts.…
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Vid The US House Committee on Homeland Security grilled a panel of experts to understand how foreign adversaries could weaponise emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing in cybersecurity.…
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Security researchers at ESET have published details of a backdoor into Microsoft’s SQL Server via hooks and the splendidly named “magic passwords”.…
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British and US spies have blamed Russian hacker group Turla for masquerading as Iranian hackers to launch recent attacks mostly on government systems in the Middle East.…
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University of Cambridge researchers and UK industry bods have been tossed £36m from the UK government to support their work with Arm to strengthen security by improving memory protection.…
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Exclusive The technology behind the Catholic Church’s latest innovation, an electronic rosary, is so insecure, it can be trivially hacked to siphon off worshipers’ personal information.…
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Last year, Google deployed Site Isolation in desktop versions of its Chrome browser as a defense against CPU side-channel attacks like Spectre. The technique renders websites in separate processes to prevent one from interfering with or snooping on another, augmenting browser sandboxing defenses.…
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US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.…
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Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it’s roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.…
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It’s only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.…
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Roundup It’s time for another security news catch-up.…
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A Dutch vBulletin forum for sex workers and their clients has reportedly been hacked using that infamous RCE vuln, baring the privates (and data) of a quarter of a million people.…
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Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that reported them to criminal prosecutors over allegedly illegal malware exports.…
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A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived by analyzing geographic details in an eye reflection captured in one of her social media photos.…
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A former BAE Systems defence contractor has appeared in court accused of leaking “highly sensitive” secrets to foreign governments.…
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Twitter says it was just an accident that caused the microblogging giant to let advertisers use private information to better target their marketing materials at users.…
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US defence firm Raytheon is punting a security suite that apparently promises to harden military aircraft against “cyber anomalies”.…
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Joseph Amato’s attempt to surveil his girlfriend by attaching a hidden GPS device to her car led authorities to surveil the alleged mobster, and ultimately to his indictment by a grand jury.…
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Roundup Here’s the latest security news in handy digest form of stories you may have missed over the last week.…
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Google is warning owners of some popular Android devices to keep a close eye on their gear following the release of an exploit for an unpatched flaw.…
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The Egyptian government has been targeting and tracking citizens in a sophisticated spying program that allows it to read emails, log contacts and record their location, according to a new report by Check Point.…
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Dutch police said in a translated news release that they have busted a local ‘bulletproof’ server hosting operation in a major takedown that also nabbed a pair of Mirai botnet operators.…
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MacOS network admins are being advised to update their copies of the Jamf Pro management software following the disclosure of a critical security flaw.…
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A man who hacked women’s Facebook accounts to steal their intimate images has been ordered to carry out 200 hours’ unpaid work after admitting three criminal charges under the Computer Misuse Act.…
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Roundup Let’s look at some of the latest security news you may have missed this week.…
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Online merchant fragrancedirect.co.uk has confirmed a miscreant broke into its systems and made off with a raft of customers’ personal data, including payment card details.…
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A programmer claims to have found a way to execute arbitrary code on recent-ish iPhones and iPads, paving the way for full-blown tethered jailbreaks.…
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Exclusive A British firm whose mobile apps monitor the mental state of 35,000 British schoolchildren is having to rewrite them after researchers found hardcoded login credentials within.…
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Months after The Register first wrote about TalkTalk failing to close a former customer’s email address, the firm is still using the General Data Protection Regulation as an excuse for dragging its heels.…
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Adobe has released an update to clean up a trio of vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, its long-running web application platform.…
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Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the browser that’s being exploited right now in the wild.…
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Security roundup Here are a handful of security happenings in the past week that are worth noting – aside from what The Reg has already covered.…
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A Bulgarian phishing criminal who created fake versions of legitimate companies’ websites as part of a £40m fraud has been jailed.…
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An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky’s former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.…
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Two Americans used bogus virus-infection alerts to bilk $ 10m out of PC owners, it is alleged.…
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Analysis WannaCry – the file-scrambling ransomware that infamously locked up Britain’s NHS and a bunch of other organisations worldwide in May 2017 – is still a live-ish threat to this day, infosec researchers reckon.…
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A pair of newly disclosed security flaws could allow malicious virtual machine guests to break out of their hypervisor’s walled gardens and execute malicious code on the host box.…
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LastPass has fixed a security bug that potentially allowed malicious websites to obtain the username and passphrase inserted by the password manager on the previously visited site.…
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Promo You know it makes sense to go to the cloud, and you know it makes sense to encrypt your data. But just what should you be encrypting – and where? And what’s the most efficient way of carrying it out, and managing your encryption strategy in the future?…
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Fire, theft, flood – and now cyber attack. Customers of a Californian biz offering payouts of up to $ 50,000 in case your cat videos get Wannacry’d but experts worry it could make the problem worse.…
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Infosec techies should prepare to both fend off AI attacks and welcome the technology into their armoury of tools, reckons Trend Micro’s director of cybercrime research.…
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Promo The internet is full of powerful, fast-changing hacking tools and malicious actors who know how to use them. That makes the regular training events held by IT security specialist SANS Institute an essential destination for technology professionals keen to sharpen their defensive skills and protect their organisation against today’s ever-more ingenious attackers.…
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We have a new twist on the “researchers find unprotected public-facing cloud-hosted database” story, as one recently uncovered archive turned out to be at the heart of a years-long fraud operation.…
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DSL modems and Wi-Fi routers from D-Link and Comba have been found to be leaving owners’ passwords out in the open.…
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On Friday, Mozilla said it plans to implement the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol by default in its Firefox browser, with a slow rollout starting in late September.…
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Roundup Here’s a look back at some of the latest security bits and bobbles besides the stuff we already covered over the past week.…
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Google this week emitted the September edition of its monthly Android security updates – and has left at least one known vulnerability unpatched. Also, in case you missed it, the web giant started rolling out Android 10 a few days ago.…
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The City of New Bedford, in Massachusetts, has found a way to deal with ransomware without paying: shoring up defenses, restoring from backups, and rebuilding systems.…
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The widely used Exim email server software is due to be patched today to close a critical security flaw that can be exploited to potentially gain root-level access to the machine.…
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The script kiddie at the center of the Satori botnet case has pleaded guilty.…
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A hacker collective has said that it found the private keys for a Manchester bus company’s QR code ticketing app embedded in the app itself – and has now released its own ride-buses-for-free code.…
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Tens of thousands of servers around the world are believed to be hosting a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to remotely commandeer them.…
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Updated Google’s Project Zero says more than a dozen iOS flaws that Apple patched back in February had been under attack for years.…
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Exclusive A coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel systems.…
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Roundup This week ended with a bang, thanks to some Twitter hackers.…
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Despite years of corporate awareness training, warning articles in The Reg and regular bollockings by frustrated IT admins, human error is still behind most personal data leaks, a newly released study says.…
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