A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI’s AES private keys onto Github in plain text.…
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Promo High-profile cases of successful attacks on critical industrial control systems show the growing importance of protecting your organization or facing a turbulent future. Malware delivered by ever more creative methods can find its way to plant floors, encrypting critical files or wiping them altogether.…
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Here’s a triple Thursday whammy: Facebook has been accused of breaking Canada’s privacy laws, and is being investigated in the US and Ireland for seemingly mishandling people’s private data.…
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Weird things are afoot with NordVPN’s app and the traffic it generates – Reg readers have spotted it contacting strange domains in the same way compromised machines talk to botnets’ command-and-control servers.…
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been propositioned at midnight at a hotel door. “What’s your room number?”…
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Analysis A US judge gave the cops permission to force people’s fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.…
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Analysis It’s 448 pages of which roughly 50 have been blacked out.…
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Roundup Welcome back, Brits, from your Easter break – assuming you weren’t working or on-call over the four-day weekend.…
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More than two years of billing records from a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center were made freely available on the internet, a security researcher has discovered.…
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A trio of Belgium-based boffins have created a ward that renders wearers unrecognizable to software trained to detect people.…
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Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher who shot to fame after successfully halting the Wannacry ransomware epidemic, has pleaded guilty to crafting online bank-account-raiding malware.…
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The last few months have seen a big increase in malware attacks using PDF email attachments, according to security firm SonicWall.…
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On Tuesday Google renovated its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) web publishing format, making it more secure with less Chocolate Factory branding – a change certain to be welcomed by publishers committed to AMP.…
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Fortinet this week agreed to pay the US government $ 545,000 to settle claims it allowed employees to peddle Chinese-made gear that would eventually end up being illegally supplied to federal agencies.…
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Indian IT outsourcing behemoth Wipro admitted this morning to falling victim to a “sophisticated” phishing attack.…
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Two Romanian nationals face the prospect of years in a US prison after being convicted for their roles in a malware-based financial fraud ring.…
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As April hits its stride, we saw a week of Wi-Fi bugs, Assange’s public eviction and King’s College warnings.…
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The US-Cert is raising alarms following the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in multiple VPN services.…
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Researchers have detailed a set of side-channel and downgrade attacks that potentially allow an attacker to compromise Wi-Fi networks equipped with WPA3 protections.…
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Intel has posted another round of firmware updates with fixes for four CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…
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Exclusive King’s College London has suffered an IT worry but this time not of its own making – yesterday it warned staff and students that some accounts have been “compromised” due to an apparent brute-force attack on password systems.…
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The US Senate is mulling a bill that would call for sanctions on any country caught trying to hack or influence American elections.…
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Newham Council has been fined £145,000 after an employee sent out a mass email containing an unredacted version of the police database that ranks people’s likelihood of gang-related violence.…
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Roundup This week had an Apple engineer fighting the government, an Apache update release, and a security scare at Mar-a-Lago.…
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A family staying at an Airbnb rental in Ireland made an unsettling discovery when they found their unit had a hidden camera livestreaming their stay.…
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Promo Organisations can no longer afford to sit back and hope their security measures will protect them from determined and inventive adversaries who know how to get around most of today’s security and monitoring tools.…
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A government survey of British businesses has praised those who read El Reg to keep up to date with security news – while claiming to have revealed that fewer firms have spotted cyber attacks against them over the past 12 months, when compared to last year.…
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Gaming PC specialist Razer has been singled out for leaving its motherboards vulnerable to a well-known and critical firmware vulnerability.…
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A British web-dev outfit has denied allegations it deliberately hid code inside its WordPress plugins that, among other things, spammed a rival’s website with junk traffic.…
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Roundup Last week we saw someone admit hoarding NSA documents, a Huawei patch bungle, and an axe looming for DXC security employees.…
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