Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft
ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders
07 Sep 2021 | 31
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Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept
Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going?
07 Sep 2021 | 24
British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats
Why are they asking G7 to do their job for them, muses critic
07 Sep 2021 | 49
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested
Cops can read the SMTP spec too, y'know
07 Sep 2021 | 114
Guntrader breach perp: I don't think it's a crime to dump 111k people's details online in Google Earth format
Plus: Police aren't treating breaches as terror offence
07 Sep 2021 | 136
Glasgow firm fined £150k after half a million nuisance calls, spoofing phone number, using false trading names
DialADeal is no longer operating
07 Sep 2021 | 52
Jenkins struck by 'Confluenza' as US Cyber Command warns Atlassian flaw 'cannot wait'
How was your weekend? Got some patching done?
06 Sep 2021 | 1
When the bits hit the fan: What to do when ransomware strikes
Feature Don't trust the insurer's techies, take the blame and other practical tips
06 Sep 2021 | 31
Indonesian President's COVID jab cert leaks – authorities argue that's perfectly reasonable
It's not as if politicians' birthdays aren't well known, and they get jabbed on live TV
06 Sep 2021 | 2
Norwegian student tracks Bluetooth headset wearers by wardriving around Oslo on a bicycle
Address randomisation not implemented on some, it seems
04 Sep 2021 | 59
Apple stalls CSAM auto-scan on devices after 'feedback' from everyone on Earth
Critics celebrate reconsideration of 'spyPhone' regime
03 Sep 2021 | 55
Rapid7 says Computer Misuse Act should include 'good faith' infosec research exemption
Security biz publishes plans for law reforms
03 Sep 2021 | 11
New Zealand internet outage blamed on DDoS attack on nation's third largest internet provider
Here in the UK, Sky broadband users back online
03 Sep 2021 | 9
Confessions of a ransomware negotiator: Well, somebody's got to talk to the criminals holding data hostage
Interview We can't deny people are paying up left, right, and centre...
03 Sep 2021 | 58
Spring or autumn, your biggest cyber threat could be in the cloud
Sponsored Tune in to SANS Institute's seasoned security experts
02 Sep 2021 |
FTC bans 'brazen' stalkerware maker SpyFone, orders data deletion, alerts to victims
Insecure systems were compromised by miscreant, too, watchdog said
02 Sep 2021 | 19
Autodesk was one of the 18,000 firms breached in SolarWinds attack, firm admits
Door was opened but nobody stepped inside, luckily
02 Sep 2021 | 9
In space, no one can hear cyber security professionals scream
Feature Miscreants hacking vulnerable orbital hardware could set living standards back by decades in seconds
02 Sep 2021 | 22
UK VoIP telco receives 'colossal ransom demand', reveals REvil cybercrooks suspected of 'organised' DDoS attacks on UK VoIP companies
One firm hit with at least two attacks as outages continue
02 Sep 2021 | 33
Dissected: A dropper-as-a-service miscreants pay to push their malware onto potentially 1,000s of victims
Sophos gazes into the abyss
02 Sep 2021 | 16
Fired credit union employee admits: I wiped 21GB of files from company's shared drive in retaliation
Access should have been revoked ... but wasn't, court told
01 Sep 2021 | 94
NSA: We 'don't know when or even if' a quantum computer will ever be able to break today's public-key encryption
Then again, it would say that
01 Sep 2021 | 69
Indonesian authorities probe million-record leak from national COVID app
Someone didn't secure an Elasticsearch database, researchers allege
01 Sep 2021 | 2
Singapore adds a third bug bounty program – this time to fortify government digital services
HackerOne gets the gig
01 Sep 2021 |
US officials, experts fear China ransacked Exchange servers for data to train AI systems
In brief Plus: T-Mobile US apologizes, security holes found in medical pumps, and more
31 Aug 2021 | 6
Leaked Guntrader firearms data file shared. Worst case scenario? Criminals plot UK gun owners' home addresses in Google Earth
Updated Bang out of order
31 Aug 2021 | 168
Drowning in cybersecurity info? Make a dash to Security SOS Week 2021
Sponsored Dive deep into key topics – and still have time for lunch
31 Aug 2021 |
Bangkok Airways hit by LockBit ransomware attack, loses lotsa data after refusing to pay
Partial credit card numbers appear and, worse still, passengers' meal preferences
31 Aug 2021 | 16
Boffins find if you torture AMD Zen+, Zen 2 CPUs enough, they are vulnerable to Meltdown-like attack
Chip biz's fix involves performance-inhibiting LFENCE, if warranted
30 Aug 2021 | 22
Microsoft warns of widespread open redirection phishing attack – which Defender can block, coincidentally
Some tactics never change much
27 Aug 2021 | 9
Slap on wrist for NCC Group over CREST exam-cheating scandal as infosec org agrees to rewrite NDAs and more
Two 'historic' incidents nearly a decade ago, says statement
27 Aug 2021 | 4
Azure's now-fixed Cosmos DB flaw could have been exploited to read, write any database
Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months
27 Aug 2021 | 13
Surveillance tech company sues Police Digital Service over 'flawed' scoring of bids on £18m contract
Excession chief exec testifies in High Court of England and Wales
26 Aug 2021 |
Big tech proud as punch about cameos in Joe Biden's security theatre
After White House summit, AWS promises MFA tokens, Google and Microsoft spray money, IBM 'announces' snapshots against ransomware
26 Aug 2021 | 14
Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw
9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication
26 Aug 2021 | 3
Israeli firm Bright Data named as enabler of Philippines government DDOS attacks on opposition groups
Updated Bright denies all in this odd tale of a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium
26 Aug 2021 | 18
