Monthly Archives: June 2019

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UK’s MoD is helping itself to cops’ fingerprint database ‘unlawfully’, rules biometrics chief

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The Ministry of Defence has been searching the police national fingerprint database without a “clearly defined lawful basis,” the UK’s biometrics commissioner has said.

In his annual report (PDF) filed today, Paul Wiles warned that inter-government searching of databases should be properly […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

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Microsoft’s transformation into a fully paid-up member of the Linux love-train continued this week as the Windows giant sought to join the exclusive club that is the official linux-distros mailing list.

The purpose of the linux-distros list is used by Linux distributions to privately […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Iran’s blame-it-on-Bitcoin ‘leccy shortage probably isn’t a US hack cover story… yet

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Comment Iran claims that recent surges in electricity demand, leading to blackouts and brownouts, were caused by too many cryptocurrency miners’ power-hungry machines being hooked up to the national grid – though all may not be as it seems.

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By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Scumbags can program vulnerable MedTronic insulin pumps over the air to murder diabetics – insecure kit recalled

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Health implant maker MedTronic is recalling some of its insulin pumps following the discovery of security vulnerabilities in the equipment that can be exploited over the air to hijack them.

Specifically, the manufacturer is recalling its MiniMed 508 and Paradigm […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Hey China, while you’re in all our servers, can you fix these support tickets? IBM, HPE, Tata CS, Fujitsu, NTT and their customers pwned

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Fresh details have emerged revealing just how deeply Chinese government hackers plundered HPE, IBM, DXC, Fujitsu, Tata, and others, stealing corporate secrets and rifling through their customers’ networks.

An explosive in-depth report by Reuters today blows the lid off APT10, the infamous […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Decoding America’s spies: What does the NSA’s cryptic memo really mean? Citizens illegally spied on again

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Analysis The NSA illegally gathered a trove of American citizens’ phone and text message records just four months after it promised it had taken steps to literally not do that again.

That’s the upshot of a document  provided to the American Civil […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Epyc crypto flaw? AMD emits firmware fix for server processors after Googler smashes RAM encryption algorithms

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Updated Microchip slinger AMD has issued a firmware patch to fix the encryption in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology (SEV), used to defend the memory of Linux KVM virtual machines running on its Epyc processors.

“Through ongoing collaboration with industry researchers AMD became […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Wipro wasn’t a one-off: Same hacking crew targeted scores of firms, big and small – researchers

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The criminals behind the Wipro phishing attack from earlier this year also targeted Western Union, Expedia, Rackspace and a whole host of other big companies, according to threat intel outfit RiskIQ.

In a report published this morning the firm said […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

What the cell…? Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn’t notice the hackers setting up VPN points

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Hackers infiltrated the networks of at least ten cellular telcos around the world, and remained hidden for years, as part of a long-running tightly targeted surveillance operation, The Register has learned. This espionage campaign is still ongoing, it is claimed.

Cyber-spy hunters […]

By |June 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they’re bombing our hard drives

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Hackers operating on behalf of the Iranian government have turned destructive, the US Department of Homeland Security has claimed.

A statement issued over the weekend by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Christopher Krebs describes how Tehran-backed miscreants have gone from […]

By |June 25th, 2019|Cyber News|