'Time to grow up,' says geek behind breach database Troy Hunt, inventor and operator of the popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), is putting the service up for sale.…
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Published: 2019-06-11 12:30:11
Popularity: 178
Author: Tim Anderson
'Time to grow up,' says geek behind breach database Troy Hunt, inventor and operator of the popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), is putting the service up for sale.…
...morePublished: 2019-06-10 22:57:33
Popularity: 371
Author: Shaun Nichols
That story we broke in May? It is still true – and perhaps even worse than first thought The US Customs and Border Patrol today said hackers broke into one of its bungling technology subcontractors – and made off with images of people and their vehicle license plates as they passed through America's land border.…
...morePublished: 2019-06-10 06:08:13
Popularity: 264
Author: Shaun Nichols
Kaspersky warns of fake 'dirty agent' scam circulating Fraudsters are posing as CIA investigators gone rogue in emails to marks, offering to take bribes to drop bogus investigations into the recipients and claims of online pedophilia, according to Kaspersky.…
...morePublished: 2019-06-05 22:31:21
Popularity: 91
Author: Shaun Nichols
Updates are on the way… if you have a Google device, at least Google has released its June bundle of security vulnerability patches for Android, with fixes for 22 CVE-listed flaws included.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-30 20:58:34
Popularity: 161
Author: Thomas Claburn
Ad giant's site slurping tech complicates web security model, could give more power to search engines and social networks, Firefox maker warns Mozilla has published a series of objections to web packaging, a content distribution scheme proposed by engineers at Google that the Firefox maker considers harmful to the web in its current form.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-28 19:35:19
Popularity: 519
Author: Shaun Nichols
Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations in plain text on demand.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-23 23:45:19
Popularity: 884
Author: Thomas Claburn
Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details Exclusive The maker of vehicle license plate readers used extensively by the US government and cities to identify and track citizens and immigrants has been hacked. Its internal files were pilfered, and are presently being offered for free on the dark web to download.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-14 01:18:37
Popularity: 4913
Author: Iain Thomson
Rap for snoopware chaps in chat app voice yap trap flap – now everyone patch Updated A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-13 22:50:15
Popularity: 220
Author: Iain Thomson
That's how you pronounce 😾😾😾: A means to bury spyware deep inside pwned networking gear Security weaknesses at the heart of some of Cisco's network routers, switches, and firewalls can be exploited by hackers to hide spyware deep inside compromised equipment.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-10 17:30:12
Popularity: 148
Author: Gareth Corfield
You know the drill: Patch and stop using C Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered an SQLite use-after-free() vulnerability that could allow an attacker to, in theory, remotely execute code on an affected device.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-02 20:24:33
Popularity: 475
Author: Kieren McCarthy
Maybe it should be called World Password Shaming Day this year because, apparently, you suck If there's anything worse than having to constantly come up with and enter passwords, it's the idiotic way in which we all do it.…
...morePublished: 2019-04-30 07:10:05
Popularity: 839
Author: Gareth Corfield
Hapless soul repents 'unintentionally' sharing drone makers privates in repo A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI's AES private keys onto Github in plain text.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-01 17:35:25
Popularity: 95
Author: Gareth Corfield
Denies wrongdoing, replaced by one-time junior MoD minister Penny Mordaunt Updated Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked from the British government after apparently leaking the news that Blighty isn’t completely banning Huawei from its 5G networks.…
...morePublished: 2019-05-01 21:16:46
Popularity: 56
Author: Kieren McCarthy
Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial Two men accused of running a cryptocurrency scam have asked for the entire case to be thrown out – because prosecutors may have accidentally obtained and read Slack conversations the duo had with their lawyers.…
...morePublished: 2019-04-30 14:37:49
Popularity: 2424
Author: Gareth Corfield
We all want to see hard proof of deliberate espionage. This is absolutely not it A claimed deliberate spying "backdoor" in Huawei routers used in the core of Vodafone Italy's 3G network was, in fact, a Telnet-based remote debug interface.…
...morePublished: 2019-04-26 00:31:07
Popularity: 526
Author: Iain Thomson
An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks – is set to end as it's no longer worth the hassle.…
...morePublished: 2019-04-24 21:44:33
Popularity: 1311
Author: Kieren McCarthy
Unsealed warrant in Massachusetts adds to growing privacy debate Analysis A US judge gave the cops permission to force people's fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.…
...morePublished: 2019-04-19 22:10:20
Popularity: 355
Author: Iain Thomson
'I regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes' Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher who shot to fame after successfully halting the Wannacry ransomware epidemic, has pleaded guilty to crafting online bank-account-raiding malware.…
...morePublished: 2019-04-17 01:40:05
Popularity: 71
Author: Shaun Nichols
Rogue employee takes blame, seems he ain't no Fortinet son Fortinet this week agreed to pay the US government $545,000 to settle claims it allowed employees to peddle Chinese-made gear that would eventually end up being illegally supplied to federal agencies.…
...morePublished: 2019-03-19 09:10:08
Popularity: 859
Author: Gareth Corfield
Bunch of bugs stomped with version 0.71 Venerable SSH client PuTTY has received a pile of security patches, with its lead maintainer admitting to the The Register that one fixed a "'game over' level vulnerability".…
...morePublished: 2019-03-13 06:38:05
Popularity: 227
Author: Thomas Claburn
Ride the fox, ride the fox Mozilla's Firefox Send, a free encrypted file sharing service, graduated from test to official release on Tuesday after a year and half of refinement.…
...morePublished: 2019-03-05 19:41:18
Popularity: 1438
Author: Iain Thomson
'If someone like me can't get in to give a keynote, perhaps it's time we rethink where we organize our events' RSA Adi Shamir, the S in the renowned RSA encryption system, didn't take his usual place on the Cryptographers' Panel at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco – because he couldn't get a visa from the US government. And he's not alone.…
...morePublished: 2019-03-05 23:25:55
Popularity: 270
Author: Kieren McCarthy
But really it's just the start of the latest surveillance chess game Special report The NSA may kill off a controversial mass surveillance program of Americans that was exposed by Edward Snowden, according to a Congressional staffer.…
...morePublished: 2019-03-07 09:10:07
Popularity: 137
Author: Gareth Corfield
But ISP won't nuke nuisance without proof of ID Updated TalkTalk has refused to delete a former customer's email address which was taken over by spammers – because the unfortunate person cancelled their contract eight years ago.…
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