Wednesday, February 28, 2018

XM-hell strikes single-sign-on systems: Bugs allow miscreants to masquerade as others

Yeah, I’m so totally Sarah from accounts…

Various single-sign-on systems can be hoodwinked to allow miscreants to log in as strangers without their password, all thanks to bungled programming.…

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Fender’s ‘smart’ guitar amp has no Bluetooth pairing controls

Bum note: you could Rickroll an artist live on stage

Guitar amp manufacturer Fender’s recently-introduced Mustang GT 100 guitar amplifier can made to play whatever audio an attacker fancies, security researchers have discovered.…

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Monday, February 26, 2018

Private browsing isn’t: boffins say smut-mode can’t hide your tracks

MIT researchers want web devs and sites to protect you. Good luck with that, chaps

A group of boffins working at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory believe that “private” browsing modes aren’t private, so have given developers a framework to fix it.…

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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Stunning infosec tips from Uncle Sam, furries exposed, Chase bank web leak, and more

A busy and bonkers week in security

Roundup  Happy weekend, everyone. Here’s a roundup of computer security news beyond everything we’ve already reported this week.…

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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Tor pedo’s torpedo torpedoed: FBI spyware crossed the line but was in good faith, say judges

Playpen pervert fails to convince appeals court

ANalysis  US judges have shut down an appeal from a convicted pedophile who claimed the FBI hacking of his computer was an illegal and unreasonable search.…

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Friday, February 23, 2018

Intel didn’t tell CERTS, govs, about Meltdown and Spectre because they couldn’t help fix it

Letters to Congress detail the plan to keep CPU flaws secret

Letters sent to the United States Congress by Intel and the other six companies in the Meltdown/Spectre disclosure cabal have revealed how and why they didn’t inform the wider world about the dangerous chip design flaws.…

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Thursday, February 22, 2018

uTorrent file-swappers urged to upgrade after PC hijack flaws fixed

Don’t say we didn’t warn you

Users of uTorrent should grab the latest versions of the popular torrenting tools: serious security bugs, which malicious websites can exploit to commandeer PCs, were squashed this week in the software.…

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