Monthly Archives: July 2019

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Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has had another busy year trying to disrupt cybercrime.

The government agency today reported that in the past 12 months, it stopped 140,000 phishing attacks and took down more than 190,000 fraudulent sites […]

By |July 17th, 2019|Cyber News|

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

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Lenovo is emitting an emergency firmware patch for Iomega NAS devices after the network-attached storage boxes were discovered inadvertently offering millions of files to the internet via an insecure software interface.

Infosec outfits Vertical Structure, based in the Northern Ireland, […]

By |July 17th, 2019|Cyber News|

Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y’all boarding passes to spies

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A now-patched vulnerability in the Amadeus flight reservation system – used by airlines around the planet – could, or may, have been exploited by miscreants to view strangers’ boarding passes.

David Stubley, CEO at UK security consultancy 7 Elements, told […]

By |July 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

Symantec share price nose dives after rumored Broadcom biz gobble taken off the menu

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Symantec’s share price has plunged on reports that its planned merger with Broadcom has fallen through.

According to CNBC, several sources have confirmed that the deal is off after Symantec insisted on too high a price – $28 a share – to […]

By |July 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

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, […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

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 […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

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 […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

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 […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

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 […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

AMD’s SEV tech that protects cloud VMs from rogue servers may as well stand for… Still Extremely Vulnerable

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Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort.

In a paper  presented Tuesday at the ACM Asia Conference on […]

By |July 11th, 2019|Cyber News|