Monthly Archives: July 2019

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Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach

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The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has confirmed it suffered a security breach of its payroll systems, which was discovered last month, saying no staff data had been compromised.

It was previously feared that hackers could have stolen bank details for leading […]

By |July 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Russian ‘Silence’ hacking crew turns up the volume – with $3m-plus cyber-raid on bank’s cash machines

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A prominent Russian hacker crew is seemingly expanding its reach – having just pulled off a multi-million dollar cyber-heist in Bangladesh, we’re told.

Singapore-based security outfit Group-IB told The Reg it believes the crooks, dubbed Silence, stole at least $3m (£2.4m) from Bangladesh-based Dutch-Bangla […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

D-Link must suffer indignity of security audits to settle with the Federal Trade Commission

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Taiwanese networking equipment vendor D-Link will have to submit to a decade of product security audits after agreeing to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission.

It has also pledged to maintain a “comprehensive software security programme” […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

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Updated YouTube, under fire since inception for building a business on other people’s copyrights and in recent years for its vacillating policies on irredeemable content, recently decided it no longer wants to host instructional hacking videos.

The written policy first appears in the […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook: ubiquitous and useful yet dangerous, impervious and misunderstood?

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Facial recognition is having a rough time of it lately. Just six months ago, people were excited about Apple allowing you to open your phone just by looking at it. A year ago, Facebook users joyfully tagged their friends […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good – Iranians hitting email flaw

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An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.

The US Cyber Command has issued an alert that hackers have been actively going after CVE-2017-11774. The flaw is a sandbox escape bug in […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

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Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major video game companies, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison by a federal court.

Thompson, a resident of Utah, will also have […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners’ smartphones

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Authorities in a tumultuous region of China are ordering tourists and other visitors to install spyware on their smartphones, it is claimed.

The New York Times reported today that guards working the border with Krygyzstan, in China’s Xinjiang region, have insisted visitors […]

By |July 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying $460,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers

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Lake City, Florida paid out a bitcoin ransom worth $460,000 to hackers who disabled the city’s computer systems with sophisticated ransomware last month, hot on the heels of a $600,000 ransom paid out in similar circumstances by Riviera Beach, Florida just weeks later. Now, […]

By |July 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Facebook staff sarin for a bad day: Suspected chemical weapon parcel sent to Silicon Valley HQ

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Staff were evacuated today at Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters after a package believed to contain the chemical weapon sarin was delivered to the antisocial network.

Buildings were cleared out at the Menlo Park campus after the parcel triggered sarin alarms: […]

By |July 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|