Roundup Let’s look at some of the latest security news you may have missed this week.…
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Online merchant fragrancedirect.co.uk has confirmed a miscreant broke into its systems and made off with a raft of customers’ personal data, including payment card details.…
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A programmer claims to have found a way to execute arbitrary code on recent-ish iPhones and iPads, paving the way for full-blown tethered jailbreaks.…
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Exclusive A British firm whose mobile apps monitor the mental state of 35,000 British schoolchildren is having to rewrite them after researchers found hardcoded login credentials within.…
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Months after The Register first wrote about TalkTalk failing to close a former customer’s email address, the firm is still using the General Data Protection Regulation as an excuse for dragging its heels.…
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Adobe has released an update to clean up a trio of vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, its long-running web application platform.…
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Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the browser that’s being exploited right now in the wild.…
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Security roundup Here are a handful of security happenings in the past week that are worth noting – aside from what The Reg has already covered.…
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A Bulgarian phishing criminal who created fake versions of legitimate companies’ websites as part of a £40m fraud has been jailed.…
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An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky’s former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.…
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Two Americans used bogus virus-infection alerts to bilk $ 10m out of PC owners, it is alleged.…
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Analysis WannaCry – the file-scrambling ransomware that infamously locked up Britain’s NHS and a bunch of other organisations worldwide in May 2017 – is still a live-ish threat to this day, infosec researchers reckon.…
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A pair of newly disclosed security flaws could allow malicious virtual machine guests to break out of their hypervisor’s walled gardens and execute malicious code on the host box.…
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LastPass has fixed a security bug that potentially allowed malicious websites to obtain the username and passphrase inserted by the password manager on the previously visited site.…
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Promo You know it makes sense to go to the cloud, and you know it makes sense to encrypt your data. But just what should you be encrypting – and where? And what’s the most efficient way of carrying it out, and managing your encryption strategy in the future?…
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Fire, theft, flood – and now cyber attack. Customers of a Californian biz offering payouts of up to $ 50,000 in case your cat videos get Wannacry’d but experts worry it could make the problem worse.…
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Infosec techies should prepare to both fend off AI attacks and welcome the technology into their armoury of tools, reckons Trend Micro’s director of cybercrime research.…
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Promo The internet is full of powerful, fast-changing hacking tools and malicious actors who know how to use them. That makes the regular training events held by IT security specialist SANS Institute an essential destination for technology professionals keen to sharpen their defensive skills and protect their organisation against today’s ever-more ingenious attackers.…
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We have a new twist on the “researchers find unprotected public-facing cloud-hosted database” story, as one recently uncovered archive turned out to be at the heart of a years-long fraud operation.…
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DSL modems and Wi-Fi routers from D-Link and Comba have been found to be leaving owners’ passwords out in the open.…
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On Friday, Mozilla said it plans to implement the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol by default in its Firefox browser, with a slow rollout starting in late September.…
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Roundup Here’s a look back at some of the latest security bits and bobbles besides the stuff we already covered over the past week.…
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Google this week emitted the September edition of its monthly Android security updates – and has left at least one known vulnerability unpatched. Also, in case you missed it, the web giant started rolling out Android 10 a few days ago.…
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The City of New Bedford, in Massachusetts, has found a way to deal with ransomware without paying: shoring up defenses, restoring from backups, and rebuilding systems.…
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The widely used Exim email server software is due to be patched today to close a critical security flaw that can be exploited to potentially gain root-level access to the machine.…
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The script kiddie at the center of the Satori botnet case has pleaded guilty.…
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A hacker collective has said that it found the private keys for a Manchester bus company’s QR code ticketing app embedded in the app itself – and has now released its own ride-buses-for-free code.…
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Tens of thousands of servers around the world are believed to be hosting a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to remotely commandeer them.…
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Updated Google’s Project Zero says more than a dozen iOS flaws that Apple patched back in February had been under attack for years.…
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Exclusive A coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel systems.…
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