Leaky Martin will be livin’ la vida lockdown: Ex-NSA bod cops to taking home ‘up to 50TB’ of hush-hush dossiers

‘Hoarder’ faces up to nine years in the clink for harvesting Uncle Sam’s top secrets

Ex-NSA contractor Harold Martin has admitted he took home piles of top-secret US government reports and other materials, contrary to security rules and basic common sense.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Leaky Martin will be livin’ la vida lockdown: Ex-NSA bod cops to taking home ‘up to 50TB’ of hush-hush dossiers appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2ODijds
Secure Hunter

Brit founder of Windows leaks website BuildFeed, infosec bod spared jail over Microsoft hack

26 and 24-year-olds slapped with suspended sentences, community work orders

The Brit who ran the BuildFeed website of Windows leaks has been handed a suspended prison sentence – along with a former Malwarebytes bod who hacked into Microsoft’s internal OS development networks.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Brit founder of Windows leaks website BuildFeed, infosec bod spared jail over Microsoft hack appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2V8f3cu
Secure Hunter

Gimme, gimme, gimme a SANS after midnight: Brush up on your cybersecurity skills in Sweden this May

Immersive training courses will help you keep your networks and data safe

Promo  With cyber-attacks on the rise and constantly taking new forms, organisations rely more than ever on skilled IT security staff who can detect and deal with vulnerabilities in their systems.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Gimme, gimme, gimme a SANS after midnight: Brush up on your cybersecurity skills in Sweden this May appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2WwCmN8
Secure Hunter

Huawei bungled router security, leaving kit open to botnets, despite alert from ISP years prior

Chinese kit slinger was told of UPnP flaw in 2013, didn’t do too much about it

Exclusive  Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP’s code review team about a security vulnerability common across its home routers – patching only a subset of the devices rather than all of its products that used the flawed firmware.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Huawei bungled router security, leaving kit open to botnets, despite alert from ISP years prior appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2WuOFK4
Secure Hunter

Yeah, you better, you… you better tell us how you’re misusing people’s data, privacy, watchdog suggests to US telcos

Cellular networks asked nicely to ‘fess up or something might, maybe, happen some day

The US Federal Trade Commission has asked seven American providers of mobile broadband service to provide details about how they deal with customer and device data.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Yeah, you better, you… you better tell us how you’re misusing people’s data, privacy, watchdog suggests to US telcos appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2FBUxve
Secure Hunter

DXC security exec: Yes, I’d have thought we’d spend more on certs and laptop kit for staff, too

Boss makes staggering admission during conf-call to discuss impact of latest cost purge: $ 60m to be cut from infosec division

Exclusive  A senior exec within DXC Technology’s global security practice has acknowledged his staff’s “puzzlement” at the company’s reluctance to fund examinations for infosec certifications.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post DXC security exec: Yes, I’d have thought we’d spend more on certs and laptop kit for staff, too appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2HUDaav
Secure Hunter

Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y’know

Boffins show how to nab radioactive contraband, by looking for ‘electron avalanches’

Lasers could be used to detect radioactive material secretly transported to and from ports one day, according to a group of physicists from the University of Maryland in the US.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y’know appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2UfXeuV
Secure Hunter

Slack slings crypto-keys at big biz, union gets worked over, VPN owners probed, trolls trouble vets, and more

Plus, two crooks craft a veritable fraudocopia

Roundup  This week we got freaked out about heart implant hacks, welcomed a new Microsoft security tool, and endured yet another Facebook fsck up.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Slack slings crypto-keys at big biz, union gets worked over, VPN owners probed, trolls trouble vets, and more appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2HDuPJ9
Secure Hunter

Uncle Sam’s disaster agency FEMA creates disaster of its own: 2.3 million survivors’ personal records spilled

Org does to privacy what hurricanes did to your house

Disaster relief org FEMA has admitted, conveniently on a Friday night, to accidentally leaking banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million hurricane and wildfire survivors.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Uncle Sam’s disaster agency FEMA creates disaster of its own: 2.3 million survivors’ personal records spilled appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2JBTW0H
Secure Hunter

Hey, what’s Mandarin for ‘WTF is going on?’ Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed

Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly

An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Hey, what’s Mandarin for ‘WTF is going on?’ Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2Hzj8TU
Secure Hunter

Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP

Redmond’s anti-malware now coming to a Mac near you

Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Windows Defender ATP is dead. Long live Microsoft Defender ATP appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2TQtS6P
Secure Hunter

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4

The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’ appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2FdYBR4
Secure Hunter

PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted

Bunch of bugs stomped with version 0.71

Venerable SSH client PuTTY has received a pile of security patches, with its lead maintainer admitting to the The Register that one fixed a “‘game over’ level vulnerability”.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2ThwcyD
Secure Hunter

Karpeles walks, Google and Microsoft board up Windows hole, and Android AV still sucks

Plus, BlackBerry wants to be Uncle Sam’s go-to security firm, thousands of legal docs pill online, and more

Roundup  Last week we saw a conservative app exposed, the revelation of Beto’s hacker past, and the rise of Slub.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Karpeles walks, Google and Microsoft board up Windows hole, and Android AV still sucks appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2W7CClO
Secure Hunter

What was that P word? Ah. Privacy. Yes, we’ll think about privacy, says FCC mulling cellphone location data overhaul

Commissioners still doing their best to ignore bounty hunter stalking scandal

Analysis  America’s comms regulator has finally pinky-promised to at least consider people’s privacy when it looks into how cellphone location data can be made more accurate.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post What was that P word? Ah. Privacy. Yes, we’ll think about privacy, says FCC mulling cellphone location data overhaul appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2HqA8vy
Secure Hunter

Q&A: Crypto-guru Bruce Schneier on teaching tech to lawmakers, plus privacy failures – and a call to techies to act

‘Politicians are reluctant to disrupt the enormous wealth creation machine technology has turned out to be’

RSA  Politicians are, by and large, clueless about technology, and it’s going to be up to engineers and other techies to rectify that, even if it means turning down big pay packets for a while.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Q&A: Crypto-guru Bruce Schneier on teaching tech to lawmakers, plus privacy failures – and a call to techies to act appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2FhHtKr
Secure Hunter

Don’t be a WordPress RCE-hole and patch up this XSS vuln, pronto

Not on 5.1.1? You should be

A newly revealed vuln in the open-source CMS WordPress allows an unauthenticated website attacker to remotely execute code – potentially letting naughty folk delete or edit blog posts.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Don’t be a WordPress RCE-hole and patch up this XSS vuln, pronto appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2T4856k
Secure Hunter

What do sexy selfies, search warrants, tax files have in common? They’ve all been found on resold USB sticks

You do know just dragging stuff to the delete folder doesn’t wipe stuff, right? Apparently not

About two-thirds of USB memory sticks bought secondhand in the US and UK have recoverable and sometimes sensitive data, and in one-fifth of the devices studied, the past owner could be identified.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post What do sexy selfies, search warrants, tax files have in common? They’ve all been found on resold USB sticks appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2Uwvr6g
Secure Hunter

This is the Send, encrypted end-to-end, this is the Send, my Mozillan friend

Ride the fox, ride the fox

Mozilla’s Firefox Send, a free encrypted file sharing service, graduated from test to official release on Tuesday after a year and half of refinement.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post This is the Send, encrypted end-to-end, this is the Send, my Mozillan friend appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2F8KNbI
Secure Hunter

The Handmaid’s Tale or Man-made Fail? Exposed DB of ‘BreedReady’ women probably not as bad as it sounds

Dystopian forced pregnancy scenarios likely a figment of Western media biases

An unprotected MongoDB database of 1.8 million women in China has been taken offline after drawing media attention for the inclusion of a data field designating whether the women are “BreedReady.”…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post The Handmaid’s Tale or Man-made Fail? Exposed DB of ‘BreedReady’ women probably not as bad as it sounds appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2VYJtOp
Secure Hunter

Freelance devs: Oh, you wanted the app to be secure? The job spec didn’t mention that

Boffins find pros-for-hire no better at writing secure code than compsci beginners

Freelance developers hired to implement password-based security systems do so about as effectively as computer science students, which is to say not very well at all.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Freelance devs: Oh, you wanted the app to be secure? The job spec didn’t mention that appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2NYBjT3
Secure Hunter

That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-BILLION-plus

‘This is a gigantic amalgamation of data all in one place’ expert tells El Reg

An unprotected MongoDB database belonging to a marketing tech company exposed up to 809 million email addresses, phone numbers, business leads, and bits of personal information to the public internet, it emerged yesterday.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post That marketing email database that exposed 809 million contact records? Maybe make that two-BILLION-plus appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2C8r3D1
Secure Hunter

FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank…

Tired: Booth babes. Wired: Floof babes. Expired: Conference hall carpets

Roundup  This week we had an NSA reverse-engineering toolkit released at the RSA Conference, a buffer bashed aboard British Airways, big trouble brewing for Citrix, plus much more.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post FBI warns of SIM-swap scams, IBM finds holes in visitor software, 13-year-old girl charged over JavaScript prank… appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2H85K95
Secure Hunter

Buffer overflow flaw in British Airways in-flight entertainment systems will affect other airlines, but why try it in the air?

Researcher’s stumbling on bug was risky to say the least

A cybersecurity professor has insisted he was not hunting for a vulnerability when he found a denial-of-service bug on an in-flight entertainment screen during a long-haul flight. His findings could affect a number of airliners running Thales-made equipment.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Buffer overflow flaw in British Airways in-flight entertainment systems will affect other airlines, but why try it in the air? appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2NNIYDU
Secure Hunter

TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it’s spamming my mates

But ISP won’t nuke nuisance without proof of ID

TalkTalk has refused to delete a former customer’s email address which was taken over by spammers – because the unfortunate person cancelled their contract eight years ago.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post TalkTalk kept my email account active for 8 years after I left – now it’s spamming my mates appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2VHl1AQ
Secure Hunter

How to keep your flock of users secure: Let them know exactly who and where the wolves are

Rather than talk about generic threats, go through some examples with people

RSA  When it comes to getting your users up to speed with cyber-security, the best approach is to give it to them straight. Practicalities over jargon. Specific examples of threats are very persuasive, rather than simply insisting people enable a firewall and malware scanner, check regularly for updates, and avoid clicking on any suspicious attachments and links.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post How to keep your flock of users secure: Let them know exactly who and where the wolves are appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2TwPtjz
Secure Hunter

That’s a nice ski speaker you’ve got there. Shame if it got pwned

If you own Outdoor Tech’s CHIPS, there’s a live vuln in your winter sports headset

A set of smart speakers intended for ski helmets are a terrible data-leaking pit of badness, according to a Pen Test Partners researcher who innocently bought himself one of the devices.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post That’s a nice ski speaker you’ve got there. Shame if it got pwned appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2TfvCpQ
Secure Hunter

Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it?

Did we say break? We meant test its ‘survivability’

Who, Me?  Hello, dear readers. We see you’ve come for your weekly dose of Who, Me? to shake off this serious case of the Mondays.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Ah, this military GPS system looks shoddy but expensive. Shall we try to break it? appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2NIzR7b
Secure Hunter

WannaCry-hero Hutchins’ trial date set, Microsoft readies Google’s Spectre V2 fix for Windows 10, Coinhive axed, and more

PS: Update Adobe ColdFusion, Cisco WebEx Meetings, Nvidia drivers with security fixes

Roundup  Here’s your weekend rapid-fire roundup of infosec news, ahead of next week’s RSA Conference, beyond what we’ve already covered.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post WannaCry-hero Hutchins’ trial date set, Microsoft readies Google’s Spectre V2 fix for Windows 10, Coinhive axed, and more appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2tJpMxU
Secure Hunter

When the bits hit the FAN: US military accused of knackering Russian trolls, news org’s IT gear amid midterm elections

Despite fried RAID and deleted hard drives, Federal News Agency calls US Cyber Command attack a failure

A Russian news service is claiming that US attacks on it and an organisation accused of state-sponsored trolling has left storage systems damaged and international servers wiped after multiple malware attacks.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post When the bits hit the FAN: US military accused of knackering Russian trolls, news org’s IT gear amid midterm elections appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2Vt1Omg
Secure Hunter

Spot the cyber-crims before they spot your data: Find out more in this here webinar – free for every Reg reader

Learn attackers’ ways to keep your systems safe

Webcast  Today’s cyber-miscreants get smarter all the time, constantly learning from each other and finding new ways to hack into organisations’ IT systems.…

The Register – Security
Secure Hunter Anti -Malware

The post Spot the cyber-crims before they spot your data: Find out more in this here webinar – free for every Reg reader appeared first on Secure Hunter Anti-Malware.

https://ift.tt/2EEdNrI
Secure Hunter