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Huawei website ████ ██████ security flaws ██████ customer info and biz operations at risk: ███████ patched

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Huawei has gagged infosec researchers from discussing now-patched critical vulnerabilities in the Chinese giant’s web systems that could have been exploited to steal customer information and derail the manufacturer’s operations.

A security research team at Italian outfit Swascan told The Register on […]

By |July 11th, 2019|Cyber News|

Meet the Great Duke of… DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware

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Microsoft has lifted the lid on the inner-workings of a particularly nasty piece of fileless malware that aims to pilfer user data without needing to install software on the victim’s machine.

Dubbed Astaroth – the same name as the Great […]

By |July 11th, 2019|Cyber News|

Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website!

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CVE-Numbers

DOS Vulnerability — Fixed in Client version 4.4.2 — CVE-REQUESTED
Information Disclosure (Webcam) — Unpatched — CVE-REQUESTED

Foreward

This vulnerability allows any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user’s permission.

On top […]

By |July 9th, 2019|Cyber News|

UK data regulator threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt

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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has warned BA it faces a whopping £183.39m following the theft of million customer records from its website and mobile app servers.

The record-breaking fine – more or less the lower end of the price of one […]

By |July 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Medway Council reforms eforms to stop blurting out residents’ details

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Medway council in Kent has corked a hole in its website that spat out residents’ names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses after a Reg reader got in touch to complain.

The breach appeared courtesy of some of Medway Council’s electronic […]

By |July 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cisco delivers Patch Tuesday warmup with bundle of 18 bug fixes

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Cisco has delivered a bundle of 17 security updates to address 18-CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its networking and communications gear.

Switchzilla has classified 10 of the fixed bugs as high security issues, with exploits leading to everything from command and code execution to […]

By |July 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

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|