Hack a small airplane? Yes, we CAN (bus) – once we physically break into one, get at its wiring, plug in evil kit…

PASSENGERS IN PERIL? CRISIS IN THE SKIES? No – but neat ways to frig with your own aircraft

An investigation into the computer security of small airplanes, the results of which were made public this week, will be sure to generate some flashy headlines. However, there are important caveats.…

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Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants

More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer

A hacker raided Capital One’s cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada.…

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As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

Let’s be careful out there

Scanning of random ports and the use of encrypted malware by online criminals is on the rise, according to a threat report by Sonicwall.…

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South Africans shivering in the dark after file-scrambling nasty hits Johannesburg power biz

City says no data stolen in ransomware outbreak, some prepaid punters without ‘leccy

The city of Johannesburg in South Africa is battling to get electricity to some customers left in the dark by a ransomware infection.…

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He’s coming home, he’s coming home … Hutchins’ coming home: British Wannacry killer held in US on malware dev rap set free by judge

Joy as infosec researcher spared jail time in America

Marcus Hutchins is on his way home to England after a judge spared him a stretch behind bars in America for developing the Kronos banking trojan.…

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Cyberlaw wonks squint at NotPetya insurance smackdown: Should ‘war exclusion’ clauses apply to network hacks?

When UK and US govts said it was Russia, they weren’t thinking of the litigators!

Analysis  The defining feature of cyberwarfare is the fact that both the weapon and the target is the network itself. In June 2017, the notorious file-scrambling software nasty NotPetya caused global havoc that affected government agencies, power suppliers, healthcare providers and big biz.…

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Sanctions-hit Russian developers fingered for crafting ‘Monokle’ Android snoopware

Group connected to election meddling now selling spy tools

A Russian software developer, currently under American sanctions for its purported role in the Kremlin’s interference with the 2016 US elections, is now selling spyware to governments.…

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With more hints dropped online on how to exploit BlueKeep, you’ve patched that Windows RDP flaw, right?

Someone just revealed the tricky kernel heap spray part

Vital clues on how to exploit the notorious Windows RDP bug, aka CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, and hijack vulnerable boxes, emerged online this week.…

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It’s 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

20 WebKit flaws among latest batch of bug fixes

On Monday Apple released a fresh round of security fixes for a load of its operating systems and applications.…

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Marketing biz bares folks’ data in the act of asking for their GDPR comms preferences

Sprint Education plugged digit-diddling URL snafu quickly

An education sector marketing firm has committed a data breach – ironically, because it mass-mailed people asking them to update their GDPR communications preferences.…

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Palo Alto gateway security alert, FSB hack, scourge of data-stealing web plugins, and more

A summary of computer security news for you, delivered rapid-fire-style

Roundup  Let’s catch up with all the recent infosec news beyond what we’ve already covered.…

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In the cooler for the next three years: Hacker of iCloud accounts used by athletes and rappers

Phishing led to shopping spree with victims’ credit cards

A man from the US state of Georgia who pleaded guilty in March to breaking into the Apple iCloud accounts of sports and entertainment figures was sentenced on Thursday to three years and one month in federal prison – and ordered to pay almost $ 700,000 in restitution.…

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2015 database hack is the terrible gift that keeps giving for Slack: Tens of thousands of passwords now reset

Yak app still cleaning up after four-year-old cyber-break-in

Slack says a 2015 database theft is to blame for a large-scale reset of stolen passwords.…

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‘Member Ke3chang? They’re still at it, you know. Euro diplomats targeted by ‘China-based’ hacker crew

Click your mouse three times… there’s no place like a back door to your machine – ESET

An old-school shadowy malware group believed to operate out of China has been targeting diplomats with what infosec researchers say is a previously undocumented backdoor.…

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Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

There’s a bit more to it than leaning down and fumbling for reset switch, though

Icarus – the ambitious project to track hundreds of thousands of animals from space – has hit an unexpected delay after a specialised computer installed on board the International Space Station (ISS) refused to work as intended.…

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Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y’all boarding passes to spies

Patched IDOR hole would have been child’s play to exploit

A now-patched vulnerability in the Amadeus flight reservation system – used by airlines around the planet – could, or may, have been exploited by miscreants to view strangers’ boarding passes.…

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Malicious code ousted from PureScript’s npm installer – but who put it there in the first place?

Account hijacking claimed by some but it may just be a developer behaving badly

Another JavaScript package in the npm registry – the installer for PureScript – has been tampered with, leading project maintainers to revise their software to purge the malicious code.…

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Blah blah Blaha: Slovak infosec firm ESET sues politico who called them ‘outrageous fascists’

He also said they’re working with the CIA

Infosec company ESET is reportedly suing a member of the Slovakian Parliament for insulting it over social media.…

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Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth’s ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken

Scrambling addresses can’t always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads

A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard’s anti-tracking measures.…

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Train maker’s coder goes loco, choo-choo-chooses to flee to China with top-secret code – allegedly

Good luck ever finding this guy again after, dare we say, his life jumped the tracks

A software developer fled to China from America with vital train transportation system computer code, US prosecutors have alleged.…

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Scots NHS symptom checker pings Facebook, Google and other ad peddlers

Privacy, what privacy? You can save our lives but you’ll never take our data. Oh, damn, you already have

Exclusive  NHS Inform, Scotland’s answer to the NHS 111 Online health symptom checker website, is calling user tracking elements from Google and Facebook.…

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Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist

Maker of Firefox fires fox from hen house guard duty

Mozilla on Tuesday added digital certificates belonging to security biz DarkMatter and its subsidiaries to Firefox’s OneCRL blocklist, based on concerns that the UAE-based company will misuse its power as a certificate authority (CA) to intercept online communications.…

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Meet the Great Duke of… DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware

DLL or no DLL?

Microsoft has lifted the lid on the inner-workings of a particularly nasty piece of fileless malware that aims to pilfer user data without needing to install software on the victim’s machine.…

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Medway Council reforms eforms to stop blurting out residents’ details

Digital project had gaping holes. On the bright side, here’s Craig David all over your *boink*

Medway council in Kent has corked a hole in its website that spat out residents’ names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses after a Reg reader got in touch to complain.…

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Fibaro flummoxed, Georgia courts held for ransom, and more

Plus, Florida Man out of a job for paying off hackers

Between the plentiful beverages and copious amounts of meat, pretty much everyone in the US is hung over from Independence Day in one form or another, so let’s jump right into the security news.…

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Cisco delivers Patch Tuesday warmup with bundle of 18 bug fixes

Unified Comms, Jabber among targets for clean-up

Cisco has delivered a bundle of 17 security updates to address 18-CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its networking and communications gear.…

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Worried about hackers? Catch a lifeline with this month’s Sophos SOS cybersecurity podcasts

Experts offer their advice on staying safe and secure online

Promo  If worries about cybersecrity threats to your business and private data are keeping you awake at night, soothe your nerves by tuning into the Sophos SOS Security Week series of podcasts from 8-12 July, and find out what you need to know to be better prepared.…

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US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good – Iranians hitting email flaw

Government-backed campaign going after bug that was patched in 2017

An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.…

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Here’s a great idea: Why don’t we hardcode the same private key into all our smart home hubs?

Another day, another appalling Internet of S**t security flaw

Smart home company Zipato hardcoded the same private SSH key into every one of its hubs, leaving its system open to hacking, researchers revealed this week.…

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July is here – and so are the latest Android security fixes. Plenty of critical updates for all

Patch, punch, it’s the first of the month

Google today posted a fresh round of Android security fixes.…

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Yuge and tremendous U-turn: Trump walks back on Huawei ban… at least sector seems to think so

Can we get a translator in here?

US president Donald Trump said he plans to revoke the ban, or, er, grant some licences to American companies supplying components and services to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.…

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