Daily Archives: July 14, 2019

Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth’s ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken

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A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard’s anti-tracking measures.

David Strobinski, David Li, and Johannes Becker at Boston University told The Register how they found that the MAC randomization system of Bluetooth LE, […]

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Blah blah Blaha: Slovak infosec firm ESET sues politico who called them ‘outrageous fascists’

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Infosec company ESET is reportedly suing a member of the Slovakian Parliament for insulting it over social media.

According to Slovakian news outlet SME, ESET became fed up with the antics of local Marxist politician Ľuboš Blaha, who was allegedly describing […]

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London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself

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A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has pleaded guilty to crimes under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act.

Sergeant Okechukwu Efobi, of Byron Road, Wealdstone, Harrow, was ordered […]

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Wondering how to whack Zoom’s dodgy hidden web server on your Mac? No worries, Apple’s done it for you

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Apple has pushed a silent update to Macs, disabling the hidden web server installed by the popular Zoom web-conferencing software.

A security researcher this week went public with his finding that the mechanism used to bypass a Safari prompt before entering a […]

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Dodgy-govt fave FinSpy snoopware is back and badder than ever for Android and iOS kit

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A nasty new variant of the FinSpy snoopware tool that infects and slurps data from Android and iOS phones and tablets is being peddled, we’re told.

Kaspersky said this week the notorious commercial spyware, developed by Gamma Group and sold by its […]

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