Iran’s blame-it-on-Bitcoin ‘leccy shortage probably isn’t a US hack cover story… yet

But just imagine Stuxnet: Consumer Edition

Comment  Iran claims that recent surges in electricity demand, leading to blackouts and brownouts, were caused by too many cryptocurrency miners’ power-hungry machines being hooked up to the national grid – though all may not be as it seems.…

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Scumbags can program vulnerable MedTronic insulin pumps over the air to murder diabetics – insecure kit recalled

Not a particularly sweet ending to the week

Health implant maker MedTronic is recalling some of its insulin pumps following the discovery of security vulnerabilities in the equipment that can be exploited over the air to hijack them.…

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While we were raging about Putin’s meddling and Kremlin hackers, Five Eyes were pwning Yandex, Russia’s Google

… Are … are we the baddies?

Hackers from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies have been accused of breaking into systems at Yandex, dubbed Russia’s Google.…

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Your server remote login isn’t root:password, right? Cool. You can keep your data. Oh sh… your IoT gear, though?

Not-quite-Iranian file-wiping malware emerges as Tehran blamed for rise in cyber-attacks

Not content to be the focus of the geopolitical news cycle, Iran now also finds itself in the middle of two major developments in the security world.…

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Stop us if you’ve heard this one: US government staff wildly oblivious to basic computer, info security safeguards

Now for deep-diving Congress hearings… LMAO JK JK they will do nothing

A US Senate probe has once again outlined the woeful state of computer and information security within Uncle Sam’s civil service.…

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Please stop regulating the dumb tubes, says Internet Society boss

Even govt rules have knock-on effects, warns Andrew Sullivan

Interview  Andrew Sullivan, chief exec of the Internet Society, has condemned governments that “interfere in underlying technologies that people are allowed to build,” as regulators increasingly target net infrastructure to enforce their visions of how the online world ought to be.…

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Cisco cleans up critical flaws, Florida city forks out $600k to ransomware scumbags, and more from infosec land

Your quick guide to what else has been happening in computer security lately

Roundup  Here’s a quick Monday summary of recent infosec news, beyond what we’ve already reported.…

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Digi-dosh exchange Coinbase: Someone tried to pwn our staff via this week’s Firefox zero-day security hole

Patch released after crypto-currency biz sounded alarm

The development and release of a critical Firefox security patch this week was, in part, triggered by an attempted cyber-heist of crypto-coin exchange Coinbase.…

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Millions of Windows Dell PCs need patching: Give-me-admin security gremlin found lurking in bundled support tool

Can’t spell SupportAssist without ‘ass’ and ‘u’ – other makers may be hit, too

Updated  Dell’s troubleshooting software SupportAssist, bundled with the US tech titan’s home and business computers, has a security flaw that can be exploited by malware and rogue logged-in users to gain administrator powers.…

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Good old British ‘fair play’ is the answer to vexed Huawei question, claims security minister

He then doubled down on spies’ ‘ghost user’ backdoor plan

Solving the Huawei 5G security problem is a question of convincing the Chinese to embrace British “fair play”, security minister Ben Wallace said yesterday without the slightest hint of irony.…

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If Uncle Sam could quit using insecure .zip files to swap info across the ‘net, that would be great, says Silicon Ron Wyden

Senator urges NIST to do something about it

Influential US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is not happy about Uncle Sam’s employees using insecure .zip files and other archive formats to electronically transfer information.…

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Spin the wheel and find today’s leaky cloud DB… *clack clack… clack* A huge trove of medical malpractice complaints

150,000 personal records on people, including US veterans, upset with their healthcare

In what has become a depressingly common occurrence, the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people may have fallen into the wrong hands because yet another organization did not secure a cloud-hosted database.…

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Smash GandCrab: Free tools released to decrypt files scrambled by notorious ransomware

Bitdefender teams up with FBI, cops to rescue Windows PC documents

Victims of the latest incarnations of the GandCrab ransomware now have a way to reclaim their files without paying a penny to extortionists, thanks to the release of a decryption tool.…

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Why are fervid Googlers making ad-blocker-breaking changes to Chrome? Because they created a monster. And are fighting to secure it

We said engineers made the API too powerful. We weren’t wrong

Analysis  In a mild PR blitz, Google engineers this month insisted the ad giant’s shake up of Chrome browser extensions won’t kill advert blockers. Instead, we’re told, Googlers are making the plugins safer. Those engineers have more work to do than it may seem.…

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Yubico YubiKey lets you be me: Security blunder sparks recall of govt-friendly auth tokens

For FIPS sake!

Yubico is recalling one of its YubiKey lines after the authentication dongles were found to have a security weakness.…

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Black Hat USA axes anti-abortion congressman as keynote speaker after outcry – and more news from infosec land

Your quick guide to hacks, patches and scandal

Roundup  Here’s a quick roundup of recent infosec news beyond what we’ve already reported.…

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When virtual mittens sell for thousands, of course gamers are ripe targets for cyber shenanigans

Guys, your security hygiene stinks

Akamai Edge World  Players of games like Fortnite and Minecraft have emerged as juicy targets for cybercriminals.…

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This is grim, Vim and Neovim: Opening this crafty file in your editor may pwn your box. Patch now if not already

Welcome to Vim Sh*tty 2000

Proof-of-concept text files are now available that, when opened in a vulnerable installation of the Vim and Neovim, will execute commands on the underlying machine, or even open a backdoor.…

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Wondering where that upcoming meeting with ‘Cheap Viagra’ came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics…

Kaspersky fingers pro-G filters for letting cyber-muck through

Spammers are abusing the preferential treatment Google affords its own apps to score free passes through Gmail’s spam filters, it was claimed this week.…

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JavaScript tells all, which turns out not to be so great for privacy: Side-channel leaks can be exploited to follow you around the interweb

And using browser privacy extensions may just make matters worse

Boffins from Graz University of Technology in Austria have devised an automated system for browser profiling using two new side channel attacks that can help expose information about software and hardware to fingerprint browsers and improve the effectiveness of exploits.…

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Firefox fires blocks at trackers, Exim tackles 7-day remote flaw, and RDP pops up yet again

Plus, Citrix catches sueball after employee data hacked

Roundup  It wasn’t just fake CIA agents, database mega-hacks and Bing flings in the security world last week. Here are a few tidbits beyond what you’ve read in El Reg, among them a seven-day vuln and the scummy BlackSquid.…

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Someone slipped a vuln into crypto-wallets via an NPM package. Then someone else siphoned off $13m in coins to protect it from thieves

What a wild ride, eh Komodo?

Blockchain biz Komodo this week said it had used a vulnerability discovered by JavaScript package biz NPM to take control of some older Agama cryptocurrency wallets to prevent hackers from doing the same.…

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Praise the lard! Police hook up with Microsoft to school us on National Phish and Chip Day

Scam warning slipped into Blighty’s favourite greasefest

Today is National Fish and Chip* Day, and tech giant Microsoft has wasted no time wading in with the police to school the UK about phishing scams.…

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There’s a reason why my cat doesn’t need two-factor authentication

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Worried ransomware will screw your network? You could consider swallowing your pride, opening your wallet

We know it’s controversial – but don’t rule out paying the ransom to unscramble your biz files, experts suggest

As ransomware infections continue, conventional wisdom on how to respond to threats is going out the window.…

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Labs are for nerds, it’s simply Kaspersky now – just hold still while we cyber-immunise you

Inoffensive, nondescript logo just screams ‘building a safer world’

Logowatch  The strategy boutique opened a pop-up shop on the wild steppe of Kaspersky Lab yesterday as the Russian antivirus developer revealed a daring redesign that involves dropping the word “Lab”.…

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Supra smart TVs aren’t so super smart: Hole lets hackers go all Max Headroom on e-tellies

Video streams can be hijacked by anyone on your Wi-Fi

Owners of Supra Smart Cloud TVs are in danger of getting some unwanted programming: it’s possible for miscreants or malware on your Wi-Fi network to switch whatever you’re watching for video of their or its choosing.…

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Nginx nJS will need patches, hotels exposed via security systems, Docker containers dinged, and more

Another week of security mishaps is in the books

Roundup  Here’s a quick summary of news in the world of information security beyond everything we’ve already covered.…

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Own goal for Leicester City FC after fan credit card details snatched in merch store hack

If you’ve bought a Foxes shirt lately, check your statements

Leicester City Football Club has quietly told people who bought stuff from its website that their financial details have been stolen by hackers – and those details include credit card numbers and CVVs.…

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You go that way, we’ll go Huawei: China Computer Federation kicks back at IEEE in tit-for-tat spat

Now they’re withdrawing co-operation too

Following disquiet over the IEEE’s decision to block Huawei-linked researchers from doing various academic tasks, a Chinese computer research body has reportedly severed ties with the IEEE in retaliation.…

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