Daily Archives: May 30, 2019

We ain’t afraid of no ‘ghost user’: Infosec world tells GCHQ to GTFO over privacy-busting proposals

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Bruce Schneier, Richard Stallman and a host of western tech companies including Microsoft and WhatsApp are pushing back hard against GCHQ proposals that to add a “ghost user” to encrypted messaging services.

The point of that “ghost user”, as we […]

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Chinese software nasty enslaves stadium-load of servers, puts them to work digging up digital dosh in crypto-mines

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More than 50,000 servers around the world have been infected with malware that installs crypto-coin-mining scripts and advanced rootkits, it is claimed.

Known as Nanshou, the software nasty, we’re told, infects machines by brute-forcing Microsoft SQL Server account passwords and […]

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Git your patches here! GitHub offers to brew automatic pull requests loaded with vuln fixes

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GitHub can now automagically offer security patches for projects’ third-party dependencies.

The Microsoft-owned source-code management site announced on Wednesday the new beta-grade feature: when enabled, developers will receive automatically generated pull requests that, when accepted, will apply security fixes to […]

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ProtonMail filters this into its junk folder: New claim it goes out of its way to help cops spy

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Updated ProtonMail, a provider of encrypted email, has denied claims that it voluntarily provides real-time surveillance to authorities.

Earlier this month, Martin Steiger, a lawyer based in Zurich, Switzerland, attended a presentation in which public prosecutor Stephan Walder, who heads the […]

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IEEE tells contributors with links to Chinese corp: Don’t let the door hit you on Huawei out

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Compsci academics are startled by how the US-based IEEE is complying with American sanctions on Huawei. That includes halting peer review by anyone connected to the Chinese company – and banning them from buying IEEE-branded coffee mugs.

The New York-headquartered […]

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