Web hacker ‘Alfabeto Virtual’ thrown in the clink for 3 months by US judge who wanted to ‘send a message’

By contrast, Russian hack-treason trial ends with 22-year sentence and accusations of foul play

A US judge this week sentenced website hacker Billy Anderson to three months behind bars, refusing his lawyer’s request not to put him in jail, in order to “send a message” to others.…

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Jeez, what a Huawei to go: Now US senators want Chinese kit ripped out of national leccy grid

Red scare reaches new heights as intel committee urges further crackdown on network-connected gear

Equipment made by Chinese electronics giant Huawei could be torn out of America’s electrical grid, if US senators get their way.…

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Black-hat sextortionists required: Competitive salary and dental plan

Cybercrims aren’t just raking it in – they’re dishing it out too

Extortionists are promising salaries of more than a quarter of a million pounds to skilled infosec folk willing to put on a black hat, according to research outfit Digital Shadows.…

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Infosec in spaaace! NCC and Surrey Uni to pore over satellite security

There’s a PhD position in it too, if you want to get involved

NCC Group and the University of Surrey have set up a “Space Cyber Security Research Partnership” to investigate the security issues faced by satellites.…

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Entrust Datacard lined up to unburden Thales of nCipher biz as price for Gemalto buyout

Profitable secure SIM firm in the bag by March, Thales hopes

French defence tech conglomerate Thales has flogged off its hardware security module biz nCipher Security, a sale demanded by competition regulators over Thales’ buyout of Gemalto.…

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WTF PDF: If at first you don’t succeed, you may be Adobe re-patching its Acrobat, Reader patches

Plus: How Microsoft Edge helps Facebook Flash files dodge click-to-play rules in Edge

Adobe is taking a second crack at patching security bugs in its Acrobat and Reader PDF apps.…

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Bored bloke takes control of British Army ‘psyops’ unit’s Twitter

Great recruiting tool there, folks

A crafty joker seized control of the British Army’s “influence and outreach” Twitter account – and labelled the military unit “fun sponges” when they tried to get it back.…

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Password managers may leave your online crown jewels ‘exposed in RAM’ to malware – but hey, they’re still better than the alternative

The alternative being memorizing a bunch of really long unique passphrases

A bunch of infosec bods are taking some of the most popular password managers to task after an audit revealed some mildly annoying, non-world-ending security shortcomings.…

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Australian prime minister blames ‘state level’ baddies for Oz parliament breach

China, Russia, Israel and the US floated as potential culprits

Australia’s prime minister has blamed a “sophisticated state actor” for a hack on the country’s parliament and some of its prominent political parties.…

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Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can’t be killed by software alone, Google boffins conclude

While browsers have got their act together, any other apps interpreting user-supplied code need to be aware of this

Google security researchers have analyzed the impact of the data-leaking Spectre vulnerabilities afflicting today’s processor cores, and concluded software alone cannot prevent exploitation.…

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‘This collaboration is absolutely critical going forward’… One positive thing about Meltdown CPU hole? At least it put aside tech rivalries…

Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug

A panel of eggheads from Intel, the US government, and academia held court this week to figure how they can keep the likes of El Reg from spoiling their next major bug reveal.…

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Well Holby damned! We’ve caught a virus: Brit medical soap operas team up for ‘cyber’ episode

WannaCry? You will do

BBC “sister” medical drama shows Holby City and the venerable Casualty from which it sprang have announced that they are teaming up for a two-part “cyberattack special”. NHS techies, stop sniggering at the back!…

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Want to know what 2020 holds? Microsoft has a little something for you

Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now

Microsoft fired up the speculation machine last night by issuing a fresh build of Windows 10 to lucky skip-ahead testers: and it contains code from 2020s Windows.…

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Cover your NASes: QNAP acknowledges mystery malware but there’s no patch yet

Anti-antivirus root-rooting weirdness just gets deeper

Taiwanese NAS maker QNAP has admitted its devices are affected by mysterious malware that alters hosts files on infected boxen following The Register‘s report.…

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Ever used VFEmail? No? Well, chances are you never will now: Hackers wipe servers, backups in ‘catastrophic’ attack

The ‘VF’ now stands for ‘virtually f*cked’

A hacker wiped every server and backup of VFEmail this week in a “catastrophic” attack, according to the webmail service.…

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Intel SGX ‘safe’ room easily trashed by white-hat hacking marauders: Enclave malware demo’d

Handy for smuggling expensive zero-days onto targets and executing them

Updated  Security researchers have found that Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) don’t live up to their name. In fact, we’re told, they can be used to hide pieces of nasty malware that can silently masquerade as normal applications.…

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QNAP NAS user? You’d better check your hosts file for mystery anti-antivirus entries

NAS-ty: Strange activity sinkholes antivirus update checks

Network attached storage maker QNAP’s customers have reported being hit by a mystery issue that disables software updates by hijacking entries in host machines’ hosts file.…

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Big trouble Down Under as Australian MPs told to reset their passwords amid hack attack fears

‘No evidence that any data has been accessed time’ say Australian officials as fingers pointed at foreign spies

The Australian Parliament has reset all passwords on the parliamentary computing network following an unspecified security incident.…

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Alleged SIM swapping crypto-crooks cuffed, iOS app snooping, ad-fraud botnets, and more

All your extra bits and bytes of this week’s infosec news in less than 5 minutes

Roundup  Here’s a summary of more infosec news beyond what we’ve already reported this week – enjoy.…

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OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn’t what it was, but Play nice, will ya?

Bug appears to hate tunes released this year

A bug has music lovers with a Google Play subscription stumped – devices won’t cast music from 2019 to connected speakers.…

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Trakt app users’ personal data exposed: We were hit by a ‘PHP exploit’… back in 2014

No payment info, but users’ names, locations, email addies etc all ‘lost’

Trakt, the makers of an app that monitors users’ TV programme and movie viewing habits, has ‘fessed up to falling victim to a PHP exploit more than four years ago that resulted in data leakage.…

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I won’t bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I’d get is a lousy t-shirt

It’s 2019. Should billion-dollar corps do better than offer swag for vulns?

Analysis  Hunting for exploitable security bugs in software is not an easy way to make a living, and vulnerability researchers say vendors who don’t pay out for reports are making life even harder while putting their own products at risk.…

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Fake fuse: Bloke admits selling counterfeit chips for use in B-1 bomber, other US military gear

E-waste partly to blame for proliferation of deceptively marketed silicon

Rogelio Vasquez, the owner of California-based PRB Logics Corporation, has pleaded guilty to selling fake branded semiconductor chips from China, some of which made their way into US military systems.…

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Mobile network Three UK’s customer details exposed in homepage blunder

World+dog could view security answers and more

Exclusive  Mobile operator Three UK’s website was showing visitors other customers’ names, postal addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more – all without asking for a login.…

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Bug-hunter faces jail for vulnerability reports, DuckDuckPwn (almost), family spied on via Nest gizmo, and more

Your rapid-fire guide to all the other infosec news of the week

Roundup  This was the week we saw GPS grumbles, shady speakers, and Yahoo! Losing! Again!…

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Year after being blasted for dodgy security, GPS kid tracker biz takes heat again for leaving families’ private info lying around for crims

If you’re going to lo-jack your offspring, at least be secure

A manufacturer of child-tracking smartwatches was under fire this week following the discovery of a second major security lapse in its technology in as many years.…

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Bringing the Houzz down: Home design website tells users to reset passwords after copping to breach

Logins, IP address, personal data and the kitchen sink at risk

Home improvement website Houzz has urged users to reset their passwords after an “unauthorised third party” made off with a file containing customer data.…

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