Monthly Archives: July 2019

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Lancaster Uni data breach hits at least 12,500 wannabe students

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Lancaster University – which offers a GCHQ-accredited degree in security – has been struck by a “sophisticated and malicious phishing attack” that resulted in the leak of around 12,500 wannabe students’ personal data.

In a statement published yesterday evening, the […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Dodgy vids can hijack PCs via VLC security flaw, US, Germany warn. Software’s makers not app-y with that claim

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VLC is said to be once again vulnerable to remote-code execution – meaning a malicious video opened by the software could potentially crash the media player, or joyride it to run malware on the host machine.

However, the developers of […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

It’s 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

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On Monday Apple released a fresh round of security fixes for a load of its operating systems and applications.

The July patch batch addresses vulnerabilities in iOS, MacOS, Safari, watchOS, and tvOS, though many of the updates are for common […]

By |July 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Israel’s NSO Group: Our malware? Slurp your cloud backups plus phone data? They’ve misunderstood

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Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has denied it developed malware that can steal user data from cloud services run by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

The Financial Times reported this morning that NSO’s Pegasus malware, which was previously known to be capable […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Excluding Huawei from UK’s 5G will harm security, MPs warn

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Excluding Huawei from the UK’s 5G network infrastructure would harm resilience and “lower security standards”, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) warned today.

It also called for Britain’s next prime minister, which most think will be uncombable hair syndrome sufferer Boris Johnson, […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Bulgaria hack: 20-year-old infosec whizz cuffed after ‘adult population’s’ finance deets nicked

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A 20-year-old infosec bod has been arrested in Bulgaria after most of the country’s population had their personal and financial details stolen.

Local media reported (in Bulgarian, so get your translation hat on) that “more than 5 million” people’s data – almost […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee

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Updated The UK government should slap a “moratorium on the current use of facial recognition technology, with “no further trials” until there is legal framework in place, a Parliamentary committee has warned today.

In an excoriating report (PDF), the Science and Technology […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub

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Microsoft has demonstrated its ElectionGuard electronic vote system at the Aspen Security Forum under way in Colorado and warned that nearly 10,000 of its customers have been targeted by nation-state attacks.

ElectionGuard aims to enable end-to-end verification of voting. Voters […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People’s Faces And Names

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Everyone’s seen them: friends posting pictures of themselves now, and years in the future.

Viral app FaceApp has been giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and now age for several years. But at the same time, people […]

By |July 18th, 2019|Cyber News|

It was totally Samsung’s fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint

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Sprint has told some of its subscribers that a piss-poor Samsung website exposed their personal details to the internet.

The North American mobile carrier is right now sending out letters (PDF) to unlucky customers whose account and device details were leaked onto […]

By |July 17th, 2019|Cyber News|