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Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:54:36 GMT
Murgio gets off easy in money laundering case
A kingpin of the ill-fated Coin.mx Bitcoin exchange has today been given a 66-month prison sentence for charges of conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:25:09 GMT
Vid game biz failed to carry out pen-testing
A small UK company that suffered a cyber attack has been fined £60,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:56:11 GMT
What's the future of cash?
Analysis Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Automated Teller Machine (ATM), the first of which was installed outside Barclays Bank, Enfield Town in north London.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 14:48:33 GMT
Petya or cattle?
Updated A huge ransomware outbreak has hit major banks, utilities and telcos in Ukraine as well as victims in other countries.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:00:10 GMT
EMETs? I've had a few
The next big update to Windows 10 Creators Edition is out in the Fall – and Redmond is hyping up its security chops.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:26:06 GMT
Nothing to see here, says Microsoft, just more crappy code
Infosec researchers have discovered a nasty and exploitable security vulnerability in older versions of Skype on Windows.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:01:10 GMT
Funding for French privacy browser – and why not
Privacy-focused French browser developer UR* has scored a grant from the European Union it hopes will help turbo charge its nascent technology.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 05:26:09 GMT
Mozilla engineer spots a gap in Web security, reaches for the patch kit
In spite of the rise of HTTPS, there are still spots where content originating on the Web can remain unencrypted, so a Mozilla engineer wants to close one of those gaps.…
Tue, 27 Jun 2017 02:58:07 GMT
So they've welded Advanced Threat Defense to Email Security Appliances
Cisco's adding McAfee's Advanced Threat Defense to platforms supported by its Email Security Appliance platform.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 23:42:38 GMT
Why does anyone do anything? I don't know, I was really drunk at the time
Fueled by beer and bitterness, a US techie logged into his ex-employer's radio towers to sabotage them – and is now behind bars as a result.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:53:40 GMT
Oh no, not Ohio's Dept of Rehabilitation and Corrections
A crew of useful idiots called Team System Dz defaced US government and business websites over the weekend in the name of medieval terror bastards Daesh (aka the Islamic State).…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:14:36 GMT
Motoring monolith stalls as punters slam into website
UK car insurance giant the AA caused all sorts of confusion on Monday after accidentally sending out a "password update" email to people.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:25:05 GMT
Two words: Sweet 2FA
Comment Just under 90 Parliamentary email accounts were compromised by a brute force attack on the parliamentary network over the weekend. And there is a long-established technology which can normally see off this kind of attack.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 11:27:09 GMT
2-day meeting will focus on getting firms to open back doors
The Australian government looks set to take a hard line on encryption at this week’s Five Eyes meeting, and encourage the other nations in the network to jump on the back-door band wagon.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:56:34 GMT
HMS Queen Elizabeth prepares to sail for the first time
Britain’s largest ever warship, aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, is due to sail from her Rosyth dockyard on her maiden voyage today.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 06:08:21 GMT
Brute force attack on weak passwords, cracked <90 email accounts
The Parliament of the United Kingdom has admitted it experienced a “sustained and determined cyber attack” over the weekend and says <90 email accounts have been compromised as a result.…
Mon, 26 Jun 2017 04:02:09 GMT
Microsoft to Tavis: Here's the fix. Any chance we could have a day off?
Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy has alerted the world to yet another way Microsoft's anti-virus tool Windows Defender could be attacked.…
Sun, 25 Jun 2017 22:47:57 GMT
No ransom demands recorded and it's hit Linux, but Police say it's ransomware
A contractor in the Australian State of Victoria has managed to infect an unknown number of speed cameras with a virus, over sneakernet.…
Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:09:25 GMT
Good day to be an attorney, or a Maserati salesman
Health insurer Anthem has today agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by its 2015 cyber-theft of 78.8 million records.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:58:08 GMT
Van Eck phreaking getting surprisingly cheap
Side-channel attacks that monitor a computer's electromagnetic output to snaffle passwords are nothing new. They usually require direct access to the target system and a lot of expensive machinery – but no longer.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:08:11 GMT
Pish, hackers, smackers, says Rex Tillerson
Analysis US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed a willingness to work directly with Russia on cybersecurity and other issues.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 20:09:09 GMT
Unreleased 64-bit ARM versions, Server editions among dumped data
Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:53:52 GMT
Given the amount of data it already has on you, why bother?
Google has said it will no longer scan the content of Gmail messages to sell targeted adverts to users of the free service.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:34:08 GMT
You're not using the password from the sticker, are you?
Virgin Media has urged 800,000 customers to change their passwords to guard against possible hacking attack.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:31:10 GMT
They're oldies but could still spill the goodies, say experts
Russians hackers are trading the email addresses and passwords of top UK politicians and diplomats.…
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:02:07 GMT
Let’s invent a dustbin that throws itself away
Something for the Weekend, Sir? What the world needs now is an intelligent dustbin. It would be the pinnacle of achievement for the Internet of Things sector.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:21:05 GMT
Redmond adds UI tweaks, more emojis and Edge enticements
Microsoft has released the newest build of Windows 10 Insider, version 16226, to developers on its fast-track release list.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:12:30 GMT
Brutal Kangaroo jumps network breaks, according to leaked classified info
WikiLeaks has published online more top-secret documents it has obtained from the CIA describing the agency's hacking tools. This time the dossier details software codenamed Brutal Kangaroo that agents can use to infect targets' air-gapped computers with malware.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:02:08 GMT
Redmond shrugs, says PC would already need to be thoroughly pwned
Flaws in Microsoft PatchGuard create a means for hackers to plant rootkits on Windows 10, 64-bit OS devices.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:19:19 GMT
Organised crime coppers cuff young men
Updated Detectives have arrested two men in the UK this morning in connection with an international "conspiracy" to break into the Microsoft network.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:27:10 GMT
Researchers finger trojan-slinging AdGholas group
Security researchers have suggested that the ransomware attack on University College London last week was spread through a "malvertising" campaign.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:04:10 GMT
We've already got one tried and tested system, huffs MoD
The Ministry of Defence has insisted it has made “no decision” to install the US Navy’s JPALS aircraft carrier landing system aboard HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy’s two new 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:56:09 GMT
Patches for servers and clients already out there – get updating just in case
OpenVPN has patched a bunch of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash the service or, at a pinch, potentially gain remote-code execution.…
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:16:13 GMT
Senate Intelligence Committee frustrated by lack of details
Russian attempts to hack key American election systems are more advanced than first thought, according to Homeland Security officials on Wednesday.…
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:59:50 GMT
'This deal is the coming of age of the offensive security model'
Cybersecurity startup Cybereason is looking to go to the next level after securing $100m in funding from SoftBank.…
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:41:11 GMT
How does that rank on the Morissette Scale?
Updated The operation behind the UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered a breach exposing the email addresses of registered consultancies, it told them today.…
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:57:57 GMT
No minivans or sedans rolled out of plant for 24 hours
Honda said today that it had briefly halted operations at a car plant in Sayama, Japan earlier this week because of the infamous WannaCrypt ransomware.…
Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:27:04 GMT
People Per Hours alert does not specify which government
An intriguing, and slightly concerning, job ad has appeared on freelancing website People Per Hour, entitled: "URGENT!!! Delivery of a National e-ID System".…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:40:40 GMT
Redmond readies the ground for Kaspersky's EU antitrust suit
Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:15:55 GMT
Fraudsters love America's easy-to-hack card slurpers
Hacking attacks against sales terminals have risen by nearly a third last year, and the US is still leading the way in being insecure.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:59:18 GMT
♪ I'm gonna wait... til the midnight hour, when there's no one else around
A UK hacker who stole £100,000 from his bank after spotting a loophole in its systems has been jailed for 16 months.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:02:06 GMT
Unlocked racks. No 2FA. No access control lists. No wonder Snowden got away with it
Second-rate opsec remained pervasive at the United States' National Security Agency, according to an August 2016 review now released under Freedom of Information laws.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 03:02:08 GMT
Talked scum down from $4.4m after they waltzed through unpatched legacy mess
A South Korean web hosting company is forking out just over US$1 million to ransomware scum after suffering more than eight days of nightmare.…
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 01:03:06 GMT
We knew about this in 2005. And 2010. And people are still building without -fstack-check
Powerful programs run daily by users of Linux and other flavors of Unix are riddled with holes that can be exploited by logged-in miscreants to gain root privileges, researchers at Qualys have warned.…
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:32:25 GMT
Investigation reveals targeting of journalists and activists
An investigation by Mexican NGOs and a Canadian tech lab has revealed how the Mexican government is illegally targeting the mobile phones of journalists, lawyers and activists to spy on them.…
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:00:29 GMT
OMG, GOP! WTF?
A massive cloud-hosted database containing personal information on nearly 200 million people in America was left wide open by consultants hired by the US Republican National Committee, it is claimed.…
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:11:06 GMT
System might only be fitted to HMS Prince of Wales – reports
American defence firm Raytheon has said it is in talks with the Ministry of Defence to put the US Navy’s “satnav for F-35s” system onto new British carrier HMS Prince of Wales.…
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 05:00:11 GMT
Pinkslipbot malware copies Conficker for C&C channel
Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it's using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet.…
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 23:28:09 GMT
End-to-end encrypted, verifiable voting already in action
Election hacking is much in the news of late and there are fears that the Russians/rogue lefties/Bavarian illuminati et al are capable of falsifying results.…
Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:58:55 GMT
♪ Tech biz fought the spying law and the spying law won
A mystery technology biz tried to fight off demands from the US government that it hand over people's communications flowing through its systems.…
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