Monthly Archives: May 2019

We dunno what’s worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess

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Back in March, remote desktop specialist Citrix admitted hackers had romped through its core systems, and had purloined internal business documents. Now we’re finding out the intrusion was much worse than first thought.

A letter  to the California Attorney General this week, required […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it’s Cisco again

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Right on cue, Cisco on Wednesday patched a security vulnerability in some of its network switches that can be exploited by miscreants to commandeer the IT equipment and spy on people.

This comes immediately after panic this week over a […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

DHS tells agencies to move faster to fix critical cyber vulnerabilities

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The Department of Homeland Security wants agencies to move even faster to repair system vulnerabilities.

The 2015 requirement to fix critical system vulnerabilities in 30 days is now cut in half, and agencies must fix “high” vulnerabilities in 30 days. DHS […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Indian corporates seek to bridge skill gap in cyber security management

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After a malware attack that brought much of the work at his office to a standstill for two days, Koushik Mitra enrolled for a course in cyber security.

“The drive on the cloud got infected and our work was affected […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks over Ecuador embassy bail-jumping

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Former WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has been sentenced to 11 months in prison after jumping bail and fleeing into Ecuador’s London embassy for more than seven years.

Delivering sentence at Southwark, her honour Judge Deborah Taylor said: “Your continued residency [in Ecuador’s […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

NordVPN rapped by ad watchdog over insecure public Wi-Fi claims

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NordVPN has been told to stop misleading world+dog with claims in telly ads that public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure.

Britons will be familiar with NordVPN’s recent ad spot, which featured some credulous loon in a railway carriage handing out his […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

If you’re using Oracle’s WebLogic Server, check for security fixes: Bug exploited in the wild to install ransomware

 

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IT admins overseeing Oracle’s WebLogic Server installations need to get patching immediately: miscreants are exploiting what was a zero-day vulnerability in the software to pump ransomware into networks.

The Cisco Talos security team said one its customers discovered it had […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop ‘backdoor’ was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone

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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.

The Bloomberg financial newswire reported this morning that Vodafone had found “vulnerabilities going back years with […]

By |May 1st, 2019|Cyber News|