Mozilla returns crypto-signed website packaging spec to sender – yes, it’s Google

Ad giant’s site slurping tech complicates web security model, could give more power to search engines and social networks, Firefox maker warns

Mozilla has published a series of objections to web packaging, a content distribution scheme proposed by engineers at Google that the Firefox maker considers harmful to the web in its current form.…

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Chinese software nasty enslaves stadium-load of servers, puts them to work digging up digital dosh in crypto-mines

Nanshou malware hijacked more than 50,000 MS-SQL boxes with rootkits

More than 50,000 servers around the world have been infected with malware that installs crypto-coin-mining scripts and advanced rootkits, it is claimed.…

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Infosec bloke claims: Pornhub owner shafted me after I exposed gaping holes in its cartoon smut platform

Mindgeek left him totally unsatisfied, he says

An irate infosec researcher has accused Pornhub owners Mindgeek of out-of-scoping what he described as “critical” vulns in a cartoon pornography-themed mobile games site.…

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Seize the chance to boost your IT security skills: SANS London has plenty of courses for you

Immersive training covering ethical hacking to intrusion detection, and more, comes to UK capital this June

Promo  IT security training specialist SANS Institute is bringing a major event to London this summer, offering a bumper programme of intensive courses designed to arm security professionals with the skills they need to defend against database breaches and malicious attacks.…

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Why telcos ‘handed over’ people’s GPS coords to a bounty hunter: He just had to ask nicely

Privacy slip allegations dog US cellular network giants… while FCC twiddles its thumbs

A bounty hunter was able to get the live location of a number of different individuals from American cellphone networks through a single phone call, it is claimed.…

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WikiLeaks boss Assange acted as a foreign spy, Uncle Sam exclaims in fresh rap sheet

Prosecutors try to paint a line between journos and internet dump lord in case with significant free speech implications

Julian Assange has been formally accused by the US government of breaking the Espionage Act, expanding the legal case against him and raising significant free speech issues.…

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Millions of personal files exposed by insurance biz, serial web hacker strikes again, and more from infosec land

Your two-minute guide to all the other security news this week

Roundup  It’s a bumper three-day weekend in the US and UK, so we won’t keep you long. Here’s a rapid summary of information security news from the past week beyond what El Reg has already covered.…

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Maker of US border’s license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details

Exclusive  The maker of vehicle license plate readers used extensively by the US government and cities to identify and track citizens and immigrants has been hacked. Its internal files were pilfered, and are presently being offered for free on the dark web to download.…

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Phisher folk reel in Computacenter security vetting mailbox packed with sensitive staff data

Haul included employee passports, driving licences, bank statements and more

The third-party mailbox used by Computacenter employees and contractors to deposit data for security clearance applications has been hacked and used in phishing scams.…

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Bug-hunter reveals another ‘make me admin’ Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: ‘There’s more where that came from’

Vulnerability can be exploited to turn users into system stars, no patch available yet

A bug-hunter who previously disclosed Windows security flaws has publicly revealed another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s latest operating systems.…

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Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot

Yes, the one with the critical security fixes

Brit security software slinger Sophos has advised its customers to uninstall Microsoft’s most recent Patch Tuesday run – the same patches that protect servers against the latest Intel cockups.…

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Let adware be treated as malware, Canuck boffins declare after breaking open Wajam ad injector

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then…

Analysis  The technology industry has numerous terms for sneaky software, including malware, adware, spyware, ransomware, and the ever adorable PUPs – potentially unwanted programs. But there isn’t always a clear difference between malware and less threatening descriptors.…

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Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops’ cellphone jammers

Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election

Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police claimed this week.…

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CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked…

…And more from the world of infosec this week

Roundup  Here’s a quick catch-up of all things infosec beyond what we’ve already reported this week.…

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Good heavens, is it time to patch Cisco kit again? Prime Infrastructure root privileges hole plugged

Do the thing ASAP, you know how it works by now

Among a bumper crop of 57 security issues Cisco divulged on Wednesday was a fix for a trio of vulns, one critical, in networks management tool Prime Infrastructure.…

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Breaking news: Bank-card-slurping malware sneaks into Forbes’ mag subscription website

Dead-tree devotees who recently signed up may want to check their statements

The Magecart credit-card-skimming malware that is the bane of internet shoppers has been spotted again, this time on the Forbes magazine subscription website.…

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Microsoft emits free remote-desktop security patches for WinXP to Server 2008 to avoid another WannaCry

Plus plenty of other fixes from Redmond and Adobe – and special guest star Citrix

Patch Tuesday  It’s that time of the month again, and Microsoft has released a bumper bundle of security fixes for Patch Tuesday, including one for out-of-support operating systems Windows XP and Server 2003.…

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Seize the chance to boost your IT security skills: Trio of training events to choose from

SANS brings three immersive training events to London

Promo  IT security training specialist SANS Institute is bringing three major training events to London this summer and autumn, each offering a bumper programme of intensive courses designed to arm security professionals with the skills they need to defend against data breaches and malicious attacks.…

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Go on, Skippy, spill yer guts: 10.5 million+ Australians’ data was breached in past 3 months

Out of 25 million? Cripes

The Office of the Australian Data Information Commissioner’s quarterly report has revealed that more than 10.5 million Ozzies – about 40 per cent of the lot of them – had their personal data slurped in one single incident in the first three months of 2019.…

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Another remote-code execution hole in top database engine SQLite: How it works, and why not to totally freak out

You know the drill: Patch and stop using C

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered an SQLite use-after-free() vulnerability that could allow an attacker to, in theory, remotely execute code on an affected device.…

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Panic as panic alarms meant to keep granny and little Timmy safe prove a privacy fiasco

Simple hack turns them into super secret spying tool

A GPS tracker used by elderly people and young kids has a security hole that could allow others to track and secretly record their wearers.…

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Double-sided printing data ballsup leaves insurance giant Chubb with egg on its face

Firm ever so sorry, takes security of info seriously, vows not to do it again etc

Insurer Chubb scored a privacy own goal recently when a double-sided printing error on bulk mailers sent to customers about a policy document change contained a stranger’s personal details on one side of the sheet.…

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Enter the minds of hackers at the SANS Pen Test Hackfest Europe

Add new skills to your security arsenal to stay one step ahead

Promo  Organisations can no longer ignore the growing problem of cybercrime, with ransomware affecting enterprises of all sizes while state-sponsored adversaries and others attempt to obtain access to their most critical data.…

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Want rootkit-level access without the hassle? Enter, LightNeuron for Exchange Server

Microsoft software-targeting malware gets commands from code hidden in attachments

A recently uncovered malware infection uses the basic functions of Microsoft’s Exchange Server to remotely monitor and control computer systems.…

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NSA foreign spying, biotech snooping, Hamas hackers bombed, airline cams, and much more from infosec land

Quick-fire summary of the past few days of news

Roundup  Welcome back, Brits, from your three-day Bank Holiday week. Allow us to catch you up on recent infosec comings and goings.…

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UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs

Yes, yes, yes, we’ve told the ICO we are doing so, says HMRC

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, aka the tax collector, has agreed to delete five million voice recordings it used to create biometric IDs.…

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Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code

Sudden flurry of forum posts leaves a few clues

Programmers say they’ve been hit by ransomware that seemingly wipes their Git repositories’ commits and replaces them with a ransom note demanding Bitcoin.…

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White House issues Executive Order on cybersecurity, including hacker Hunger Games

Lets the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition begin! And may the odds be ever in your favor

“A year after the White House eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator, President Donald Trump called for everyone else to do the opposite and push cybersecurity coordination through worker training and recruitment.”…

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Venture deep into cybersecurity at SANS Amsterdam this month: Full details inside

Learn the skills you need to fend off cybercriminals

Promo  The internet is full of hacking tools and bad guys only too eager to use them. To help organisations keep their precious data out of the criminals’ hands, IT security training specialist SANS Institute is planning an event in Amsterdam from 20-25 May, 2019, for cybersecurity professionals to develop hands-on skills to defend against determined and increasingly ingenious attackers.…

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We dunno what’s worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess

Hardly reassuring on any level

Back in March, remote desktop specialist Citrix admitted hackers had romped through its core systems, and had purloined internal business documents. Now we’re finding out the intrusion was much worse than first thought.…

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NordVPN rapped by ad watchdog over insecure public Wi-Fi claims

There’s insecure and then there’s insecure

NordVPN has been told to stop misleading world+dog with claims in telly ads that public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure.…

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