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India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones despite most local phones not being smart

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India has made use of a COVID-19 contact-tracing app compulsory in some parts of the nation.

The country yesterday extended its national lockdown for two weeks from today. But the extension is not total: regions that have experienced no new cases […]

By |May 4th, 2020|Cyber News|

Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors’ national identity numbers

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Singapore will from May 12th require all businesses to adopt a system that checks visitors into and out of their premises using their smartphones, and has already made using the system compulsory before entering some venues.

Called “SafeEntry”, the system is […]

By |May 4th, 2020|Cyber News|

Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you’re suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services

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Israeli spyware maker NSO Group has rubbished Facebook’s claim it can be sued in California because it allegedly uses American IT services and has a business presence in the US.

Last October, Facebook and its WhatsApp subsidiary sued the software developer and its […]

By |May 4th, 2020|Cyber News|

US student was allegedly building a custom Gentoo Linux distro for ISIS

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US authorities have arrested and charged a 20-year-old student from Chicago with providing material support to ISIS.

According to court documents, the teen allegedly created a Python script to automate saving ISIS multimedia from official social media channels, so other members could […]

By |November 21st, 2019|Cyber News|

Malware on Official Monero Website Can Steal Crypto: Investigator

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The software available for download on Monero’s (XMR) official website was compromised to steal cryptocurrency, according to a Nov. 19 Reddit post published by the coin’s core development team.

The command-line interface (CLI) tools available at getmonero.org may have been compromised over the […]

By |November 20th, 2019|Cyber News|

Oh there it is, Facebook shrugs as Free Basics private key found to be signing unrelated apps

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Facebook has insisted that losing control of the private key used to sign its Facebook Basics app is no biggie despite totally unrelated apps from other vendors, signed with the same key, popping up in unofficial repositories.

Targeted mainly at […]

By |September 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

NATO sharpens its cyber-lances, prepares for war games with virtual jousting tournament

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Fresh from secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg’s repeated promises to hack back at cyber-attackers, NATO is now preparing to run a large-scale cyber exercise to test its infosec defences.

NATO’s Exercise Cyber Coalition 19 is intended to bring together doers of all […]

By |September 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Despite billions in spending, your ‘military grade’ network will still be leaking data

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Despite years of corporate awareness training, warning articles in The Reg and regular bollockings by frustrated IT admins, human error is still behind most personal data leaks, a newly released study says.

Security shop Egress studied 4,856 personal data breach reports collected […]

By |September 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

When you think how infamous NHS-pwning malware’s still hitting the unwary, it’ll make you WannaCry – Kaspersky

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Kaspersky Lab reckons the number one reason its customers call them for emergency help is because of ransomware – with Wannacry still playing a large part in detections picked up by the Russian company.

In its Incident Response Analytics report […]

By |September 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Dixons hits back at McAfee’s £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn’t work on Windows 10S

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Brit retailer Dixons has lashed back at McAfee’s £30m High Court broadside, saying it was entitled to promote rival antivirus (AV) tech from Symantec if McAfee’s software wouldn’t work on Windows 10S devices.

Not only was McAfee trying to punt […]

By |August 28th, 2019|Cyber News|