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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 […]

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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 […]

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|

UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped

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The Information Commissioner’s Office issued £3m worth of fines for data breaches in the year to April 2018 – a mere fraction of its recent proposed GDPR-enabled penalties on British Airways and Marriott.

The UK data watchdog’s annual report for […]

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Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist

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Mozilla on Tuesday added digital certificates belonging to security biz DarkMatter and its subsidiaries to Firefox’s OneCRL blocklist, based on concerns that the UAE-based company will misuse its power as a certificate authority (CA) to intercept online communications.

In a post to Mozilla’s […]

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‘This repository is private’ – so what’s it doing on the public internet, GE Aviation?

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GE Aviation managed to expose a pile of its private keys on a misconfigured Jenkins instance that was exposed to the public internet, according to a security researcher who found it through Shodan.

“It took me only a couple of […]

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Marriott’s got 99 million problems and the ICO’s one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over

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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office wants to fine Marriott Hotels £99m over its loss of 383 million customer booking records last year.

The almost-but-not-quite-£100m sum (£99,200,396) was disclosed in a US regulatory filing by Marriott, which said: “Marriott has the right […]

By |July 11th, 2019|Cyber News|