Roundup This week ended with a bang, thanks to some Twitter hackers.…
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Despite years of corporate awareness training, warning articles in The Reg and regular bollockings by frustrated IT admins, human error is still behind most personal data leaks, a newly released study says.…
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Ransomware criminals have taken a particular shine to US city and state governments, infecting them with file-scrambling extorionware in hope of quick payouts.…
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Brit retailer Dixons has lashed back at McAfee’s £30m High Court broadside, saying it was entitled to promote rival antivirus (AV) tech from Symantec if McAfee’s software wouldn’t work on Windows 10S devices.…
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Transport for London is looking at ways to improve its processes after a Register reader queried why he was being asked to write down his password on a paper form for railway staff to read.…
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Roundup Summer is winding down, although there are plenty of computer security news bits and bytes to go around.…
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A hacker from Kent, England, has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.…
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Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates to make it seem less important – and is now telling the world it EOL’d the vulnerable monitoring software before its final version was released.…
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GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.…
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A security bod angry at Valve’s handling of bug reports has released a zero-day vulnerability affecting the games giant’s flagship Steam app.…
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VideoLAN has issued an update to address a baker’s dozen of CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its widely used VLC player software.…
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iPhone hackers have discovered Apple’s most recent iOS update, 12.4, released in July, accidentally reopened a code-execution vulnerability that was previously patched – a vulnerability that can be abused to jail-break iThings.…
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Roundup Let’s run through all the bits and bytes of security news beyond what we’ve already covered. Also, don’t forget our articles from this year’s Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides Las Vegas conferences in the American desert.…
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Analysis In the clearest possible sign that the US intelligence services live within their own political bubble, the director of national intelligence has asked Congress to reauthorize a spying program that the NSA itself decided to shut down after it repeatedly – and illegally – gathered the call records of millions of innocent Americans.…
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Between February and March this year, after Google released a Chrome extension called Password Checkup to check whether people’s username and password combinations had been stolen and leaked from website databases, computer scientists at the biz and Stanford University gathered anonymous telemetry from 670,000 people who installed the add-on.…
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Sussex Police’s probe of the infamous London Gatwick airport drone fiasco of Christmas 2018 has doubled in cost to nearly £900,000 – and the bungling force still hasn’t arrested the person or persons responsible.…
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Analysis Clickjacking, which came to the attention of security types more than a decade ago, continues to thrive, despite defenses deployed since then by browser makers.…
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On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series of vulnerabilities that enable denial of service attacks against servers running HTTP/2 services.…
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The HTTP Alternative Services header can be abused to conduct network reconnaissance and attacks, to bypass malware protection services, and to foil tracking defenses and privacy assumptions, according to a paper scheduled to be presented at the WOOT ’19 security conference on Tuesday.…
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The US Navy is ditching touchscreens and going back to physical throttles after an investigation into the USS John S McCain collision partly blamed poor design of control systems for the incident.…
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DEF CON At the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, infosec gurus from Check Point are scheduled to describe a technique for exploiting SQLite, a database used in applications across every major desktop and mobile operating system, to gain arbitrary code execution.…
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Coinbase chief information security officer Philip Martin this week published an incident report covering the recent attack on the cryptocurrency exchange, revealing a phishing campaign of surprising sophistication.…
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Black Hat When Europe introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) it was supposed to be a major step forward in data safety, but sloppy implementation and a little social engineering can make it heaven for identity thieves.…
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Black Hat A Black Hat presentation on how to potentially hijack a 787 – by exploiting bugs found in internal code left lying around on a public-facing server – was last night slammed as “irresponsible and misleading” by Boeing.…
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Roundup Before letting the IT staff clock out early this week, make sure they read up on the following security notices out this week.…
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Brandon Philips, a member of the technical staff at Red Hat, has created a software tool called rget for Linux, macOS, and Windows, to make it easier to determine whether downloaded files can be trusted.…
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Black Hat If you’re heading off the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences in Las Vegas, USA, this week, be prepared to have your hotel room searched if – for any reason – you shoo maid service away and stop staff from cleaning your room.…
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An email phisher found hiding in Kenya is facing up to two decades behind bars in America for scamming thousands of dollars from US universities.…
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Uncle Sam is testing a system that uses high-altitude balloons to conduct surveillance over American soil.…
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On Call Welcome back to On Call, a special corner of The Register where readers can share tales of their cries for help and the deaf ears on which they fall.…
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Uninspired by the stock imagery used by the media to depict cybersecurity, a graphic design group is offering cash prizes to anyone who comes up with something more original than dodgy hoodie-wearing laptop users with waterfalls of cascading 1s and 0s behind them.…
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