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The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open

'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised'

Security12 Oct 2020 | 7

One year after server hackers left NordVPN red-faced, firm's first colocated setup is online

In brief Plus: Bunch of Cisco fixes for Patch Tuesday week, Fitbit kit hit, RAT malware written in Golang, and more

Security12 Oct 2020 | 6

Five bag $300,000 in bug bounties after finding 55 security holes in Apple's web apps, IT infrastructure

Unpatched Cisco VPN servers, access to the iOS source code, AWS secret keys – this is weapons grade 'oof'

Security09 Oct 2020 | 14

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Don't worry, says the internet giant, this doesn't happen too often

Security09 Oct 2020 | 71

EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online

Google has a word with digital rights warriors

Science09 Oct 2020 | 17

Want to set up a successful bug bounty? Make sure you write it for the flaw finders and not the lawyers

Plus: Experts talk voting machine security, 'warming' of relations with infosec community

Security08 Oct 2020 | 5

UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?

Sure, millions of profile pages slurped via dodgy Facebook API though it didn't actually affect anything, it seems

Personal Tech08 Oct 2020 | 24

Yes, it's down again: Microsoft's Office 365 takes yet another mid-week tumble, Azure also unwell

Updated Come back, Word 97, all is forgiven

SaaS07 Oct 2020 | 67

Microsoft: After we said we'll try to promote more Black people, the US govt accused us of discrimination

Dept of Labor demands proof Windows giant isn't making 'illegal race-based decisions' in diversity push

Science07 Oct 2020 | 66

Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner

Cops charge suspect with theft as audit claims this gear definitely wasn't on loan

Personal Tech06 Oct 2020 | 32

Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations

He paid more or less than $750, though?

Security06 Oct 2020 | 111

Spooked by the specter of out-of-control, virus-spreading parties, Airbnb slams coffin lid on Halloween rentals

Don't be monster-mashing that reservation button in the US and Canada, you ghouls and ghosts

Bootnotes05 Oct 2020 |

Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back?

IRC-for-the-2020s up and down as it catches a bad case of the Mondays

Software05 Oct 2020 | 6

Imagine running a dating app and being told accounts could be easily hijacked. How did that feel, Grindr?

In brief Plus: A little reminder to not pay off ransomware crooks

Security03 Oct 2020 | 24

And you thought Fuzzilli was a pasta... Google offers up $50k in cloud credits to fuzz the hell out of JavaScript engines

And don't forget the paperwork after, says Chocolate Factory

Security02 Oct 2020 | 8

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings

Big blow to big whistleblower

Security02 Oct 2020 | 55

How's this for overachieving? Man accused of running software outfit as a Ponzi scheme while on parole from previous fraud

He masterminded $7m scam from halfway house, Feds claim

Security02 Oct 2020 | 16

Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software

Brit financial watchdogs foxed by not guilty verdict

Security01 Oct 2020 | 24

Microsoft lends Windows on Arm a hand with emulation layer to finally run 64-bit x86 apps at last

News from the Department of Wait, It Didn't Already Do That?

OSes01 Oct 2020 | 69

Prepare your shocked faces: Crypto-coin exchange boss laundered millions of bucks for online auction crooks

Scumbag found guilty for his role in large-scale cyber-fraud ring

Science30 Sep 2020 | 25

It's 2020, so let's just go ahead and let Amazon have everyone's handprints so it can process payments

Read mine off my forehead, Jeffrey

Science30 Sep 2020 | 59

Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt

In Brief Also, Brazilian teen spots odd Instagram bug and nets $25K

Security28 Sep 2020 | 13

Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages

One thing to let people rent your home, quite another to let them access your private comms

Security26 Sep 2020 | 9

IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

After he was demoted and fired, idiot logged into office PC from home and wiped storage systems

Security25 Sep 2020 | 52

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Hacker had set up shop on network using stolen Office 365 accounts

Security25 Sep 2020 | 30

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Contract would have run for up to three years, bagged $500,000, it seems

Personal Tech25 Sep 2020 | 26

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

Scan servers for signs of compromise and patch if you haven't already

Security24 Sep 2020 | 8

Oracle rejoices as US government's $400m wage discrimination claim gets piped into /dev/null

Winner winner, lawsuit-binner

SaaS24 Sep 2020 | 6

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Techie teens, not IT support, tasked with helping work-from-home parents sort out vid calls, Word and Excel files, antivirus – survey report

Security23 Sep 2020 | 47

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

Domain controllers at risk of hijacking, depending on version and configuration

Security22 Sep 2020 | 6

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Scumbag sobs in court as judge orders him to cough up $1.5m

Security22 Sep 2020 | 44

Russians charged for $16.8m crypto-coin heist, but traders warned their cash is only as safe as their security is tight

In brief Plus: Lazarus Group joins the big league, ex-Aussie PM doxxed, new flaw found in Bluetooth, and more

Security21 Sep 2020 | 4

Tesla wins defamation counterclaim against Gigafactory whistleblower

Tripp's off the hook for Tesla's supposed $167.37m market cap damages, though

Security21 Sep 2020 | 7

iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail

You didn't want to run that hot Cupertino code? Too bad, loser

Personal Tech18 Sep 2020 | 26

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo... never mind

Security18 Sep 2020 | 107

Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior

It starts with a backpack of $200 of electronics and poor Wi-Fi security

Security17 Sep 2020 | 26

Safety driver at the wheel of self-driving Uber car that killed a pedestrian is charged with negligent homicide

Doesn't matter if a computer was in control, responsibility rests with the human, says prosecutor

AI + ML16 Sep 2020 | 88

Good: US boasts it collared two in Chinese hacking bust. Bad: They aren't the actual hackers, rest are safe in China

Ugly: And it's all about video game robberies at this stage

Security16 Sep 2020 | 5

Worried about bootkits, rootkits, UEFI nasties? Have you tried turning on Secure Boot, asks the No Sh*! Agency

And have you tried simply asking hackers to not hack?

Security16 Sep 2020 | 22

Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks

No way to sugarcoat this: New York AG eclairs the 2015 data theft matter settled

Security15 Sep 2020 | 8

What do F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure all have in common? China exploiting their flaws to hack govt, biz – Feds

Beijing's snoops don't even need zero-days to break into valuable networks

Security14 Sep 2020 | 1

Microsoft wants to link satellites to Azure – but it should probably fix its cloud first: Cooling outage hits UK COVID-19 portal, other sites

Updated Equipment failure shuts down servers, networking, storage

SaaS14 Sep 2020 | 11

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Anti-social network asked to stop piping Irish uncles' mutterings to America

Security10 Sep 2020 | 96

Now that's a somewhat unexpected insider threat: Zoombombings mostly blamed on rogue participants, unique solution offered

'Particularly students in high school and college classes'

Security10 Sep 2020 | 15

Apple to Epic: Sue me? No, sue you, pal!

App Store spat heats up with Cupertino counterclaim

Personal Tech09 Sep 2020 | 113

Enjoyed the US Labor Day weekend? Because it's September 2020 and Exchange Server can be pwned via email

Don't be so smug, Mac users, you're open to an InDesign project file

OSes08 Sep 2020 | 7

Darknet market's peacemaker sentenced to 11 years in prison

In Brief Sealed with an XSS: Flaw in Go lang library could cause app issues

Security07 Sep 2020 | 7

What price security? Well, for the US ban on Huawei/ZTE kit it's around $1.8bn, and you're going to pay most of it

Ripping and replacing Chinese-made gear won't be cheap

Security04 Sep 2020 | 37

Apple commits to support human rights - 'We believe in the critical importance of an open society'*

*Offer void where banned by local law

Personal Tech04 Sep 2020 | 44

Old and busted: Targeting servers and web bugs. New hotness: Pwning devs with targeted poisoned stacks

'Most developers are highly intelligent, but also highly stupid'

Security04 Sep 2020 | 28

When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons

Eight DDoS attacks targeted networks, virtual classrooms, say officials

Security04 Sep 2020 | 28

There's gall – and then there's the security director who stole and resold 41 government-owned networking switches

South Carolina crook jailed for 2 years after flogging $340k of purloined Cisco kit

Networks02 Sep 2020 | 8

Intel, Apple, Cisco, Google sue US Patent Office – Tech police, open up!

Silicon Valley heavyweights demand access to review boards that can shoot down trolls just ahead of trial

Science02 Sep 2020 | 13

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

Some kind of protest against drones taking away people's jobs of pestering aircraft mid-flight?

Bootnotes01 Sep 2020 | 76

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

That's certainly one way to get around COVID-19 travel restrictions

Security01 Sep 2020 | 53

Smash-and-grabbed: Chinese AI academic cuffed by Feds after 'binning hard drive' amid software leak probe

Uni bod accused of destroying evidence by agents investigating possible visa fraud, transfer of 'sensitive' data to Beijing

AI + ML31 Aug 2020 | 28

Cisco warns miscreants are crippling IOS XR network gear over the internet with memory black-holes. No patch yet

In brief Plus: Time to dump that old backdoored ZTE mobile hotspot

Networks31 Aug 2020 | 5

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

So sorry this keeps happening. Best out of three, er, four, er ten?

Personal Tech29 Aug 2020 | 138

Before you head off for the weekend, you have patched your Pulse Secure VPNs, right? Wouldn't want you to be pwned via a phishing link

Perl clutching time again

Security28 Aug 2020 | 3

BeagleBoyz: 2020's hottest country-rap band, or N. Korea hackers stealing millions. Only one way to find out...

...read the article, of course

Security28 Aug 2020 | 6

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The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open

One year after server hackers left NordVPN red-faced, firm's first colocated setup is online

Five bag $300,000 in bug bounties after finding 55 security holes in Apple's web apps, IT infrastructure

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online

Want to set up a successful bug bounty? Make sure you write it for the flaw finders and not the lawyers

UK privacy watchdog wraps up probe into Cambridge Analytica and... it was all a little bit overblown, no?

Yes, it's down again: Microsoft's Office 365 takes yet another mid-week tumble, Azure also unwell

Microsoft: After we said we'll try to promote more Black people, the US govt accused us of discrimination

Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner

Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations

Spooked by the specter of out-of-control, virus-spreading parties, Airbnb slams coffin lid on Halloween rentals

Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back?

Imagine running a dating app and being told accounts could be easily hijacked. How did that feel, Grindr?

And you thought Fuzzilli was a pasta... Google offers up $50k in cloud credits to fuzz the hell out of JavaScript engines

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings

How's this for overachieving? Man accused of running software outfit as a Ponzi scheme while on parole from previous fraud

Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software

Microsoft lends Windows on Arm a hand with emulation layer to finally run 64-bit x86 apps at last

Prepare your shocked faces: Crypto-coin exchange boss laundered millions of bucks for online auction crooks

It's 2020, so let's just go ahead and let Amazon have everyone's handprints so it can process payments

Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt

Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages

IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

Oracle rejoices as US government's $400m wage discrimination claim gets piped into /dev/null

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Russians charged for $16.8m crypto-coin heist, but traders warned their cash is only as safe as their security is tight

Tesla wins defamation counterclaim against Gigafactory whistleblower

iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail

Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe

Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior

Safety driver at the wheel of self-driving Uber car that killed a pedestrian is charged with negligent homicide

Good: US boasts it collared two in Chinese hacking bust. Bad: They aren't the actual hackers, rest are safe in China

Worried about bootkits, rootkits, UEFI nasties? Have you tried turning on Secure Boot, asks the No Sh*! Agency

Dunkin' Donuts drops some dough to glaze over lawsuit accusing it of covering up customer account hacks

What do F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure all have in common? China exploiting their flaws to hack govt, biz – Feds

Microsoft wants to link satellites to Azure – but it should probably fix its cloud first: Cooling outage hits UK COVID-19 portal, other sites

Ireland unfriends Facebook: Oh Zucky Boy, the pipes, the pipes are closing…from glen to US, and through the EU-side

Now that's a somewhat unexpected insider threat: Zoombombings mostly blamed on rogue participants, unique solution offered

Apple to Epic: Sue me? No, sue you, pal!

Enjoyed the US Labor Day weekend? Because it's September 2020 and Exchange Server can be pwned via email

Darknet market's peacemaker sentenced to 11 years in prison

What price security? Well, for the US ban on Huawei/ZTE kit it's around $1.8bn, and you're going to pay most of it

Apple commits to support human rights - 'We believe in the critical importance of an open society'*

Old and busted: Targeting servers and web bugs. New hotness: Pwning devs with targeted poisoned stacks

When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons

There's gall – and then there's the security director who stole and resold 41 government-owned networking switches

Intel, Apple, Cisco, Google sue US Patent Office – Tech police, open up!

'A guy in a jetpack' seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges

Smash-and-grabbed: Chinese AI academic cuffed by Feds after 'binning hard drive' amid software leak probe

Cisco warns miscreants are crippling IOS XR network gear over the internet with memory black-holes. No patch yet

Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

Before you head off for the weekend, you have patched your Pulse Secure VPNs, right? Wouldn't want you to be pwned via a phishing link

BeagleBoyz: 2020's hottest country-rap band, or N. Korea hackers stealing millions. Only one way to find out...

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