Two men have confessed they siphoned confidential information from databases hosted in the Amazon cloud, and then demanded payment to delete their copies of the data.…
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Security flaws have been found in the European Union’s electronic identity system that could have been exploited by miscreants to impersonate member states’ citizens online.…
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The Russian hacking crew known as Fancy Bear is thought to be actively targeting anti-doping sports agencies.…
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A competition to produce stock pictures of infosec that does not involve hoodies or waterfalls of 0s and 1s has yielded a mixed bag of images to illustrate the industry’s digital doings for the world’s consumption.…
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The US government has gone back to court in a bid to get a summary judgement against whistleblower Edward Snowden and Macmillan – the publisher of his memoir, Permanent Record.…
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Adobe has pulled offline a public-facing poorly secured Elasticsearch database containing information on 7.5 million Creative Cloud customers.…
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The iOS App Store is 18 applications lighter today after the software was caught harboring malware that secretly clicked on ads, signed up punters for premium services, or deliberately overloaded websites.…
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GP online services app Evergreen Life has been the target of a cyber-attack attempting to access the firm’s corporate email accounts.…
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Vid The US House Committee on Homeland Security grilled a panel of experts to understand how foreign adversaries could weaponise emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing in cybersecurity.…
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Security researchers at ESET have published details of a backdoor into Microsoft’s SQL Server via hooks and the splendidly named “magic passwords”.…
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British and US spies have blamed Russian hacker group Turla for masquerading as Iranian hackers to launch recent attacks mostly on government systems in the Middle East.…
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University of Cambridge researchers and UK industry bods have been tossed £36m from the UK government to support their work with Arm to strengthen security by improving memory protection.…
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Exclusive The technology behind the Catholic Church’s latest innovation, an electronic rosary, is so insecure, it can be trivially hacked to siphon off worshipers’ personal information.…
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Last year, Google deployed Site Isolation in desktop versions of its Chrome browser as a defense against CPU side-channel attacks like Spectre. The technique renders websites in separate processes to prevent one from interfering with or snooping on another, augmenting browser sandboxing defenses.…
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US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.…
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Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it’s roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.…
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It’s only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.…
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Roundup It’s time for another security news catch-up.…
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A Dutch vBulletin forum for sex workers and their clients has reportedly been hacked using that infamous RCE vuln, baring the privates (and data) of a quarter of a million people.…
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Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that reported them to criminal prosecutors over allegedly illegal malware exports.…
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A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived by analyzing geographic details in an eye reflection captured in one of her social media photos.…
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A former BAE Systems defence contractor has appeared in court accused of leaking “highly sensitive” secrets to foreign governments.…
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Twitter says it was just an accident that caused the microblogging giant to let advertisers use private information to better target their marketing materials at users.…
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US defence firm Raytheon is punting a security suite that apparently promises to harden military aircraft against “cyber anomalies”.…
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Joseph Amato’s attempt to surveil his girlfriend by attaching a hidden GPS device to her car led authorities to surveil the alleged mobster, and ultimately to his indictment by a grand jury.…
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Roundup Here’s the latest security news in handy digest form of stories you may have missed over the last week.…
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Google is warning owners of some popular Android devices to keep a close eye on their gear following the release of an exploit for an unpatched flaw.…
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The Egyptian government has been targeting and tracking citizens in a sophisticated spying program that allows it to read emails, log contacts and record their location, according to a new report by Check Point.…
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Dutch police said in a translated news release that they have busted a local ‘bulletproof’ server hosting operation in a major takedown that also nabbed a pair of Mirai botnet operators.…
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MacOS network admins are being advised to update their copies of the Jamf Pro management software following the disclosure of a critical security flaw.…
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A man who hacked women’s Facebook accounts to steal their intimate images has been ordered to carry out 200 hours’ unpaid work after admitting three criminal charges under the Computer Misuse Act.…
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