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PIN the blame on us, says Monzo in mondo security blunder: Bank card codes stored in log files as plain text

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Trendy online-only Brit bank Monzo is telling hundreds of thousands of its customers to pick a new PIN – after it discovered it was storing their codes as plain-text in log files.

As a result, 480,000 folks, a fifth of […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

F-B-Yikes! FBI bod allegedly hid spy camera under desk to snap coworker’s upskirt pics

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An FBI contractor has pleaded not guilty to charges that he installed a camera under a coworker’s desk to satisfy his “voyeur” fetish.

Joshua Green was working as a contractor in the J Edgar Hoover building – aka the FBI […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Googlers hate it! This one weird trick lets websites dodge Chrome 76’s defenses, detect you’re in Incognito mode

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A week ago, Google released Chrome 76, which included a change intended to prevent websites from detecting when browser users have activated Incognito mode.

Unfortunately, the web giant’s fix opened another hole elsewhere. It enabled a timing attack that can […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

The sea is dangerous and no one likes robots, so why not send a drone on rescue missions?

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The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is coughing up just shy of a million quid to see how drones could help with sea rescue and surveillance operations.

Interested parties have until 19 August to put in a bid and […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Class-action sueball flung at Capital One and GitHub over theft of 106 million folks’ details

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Code repository GitHub and credit-card-flinger Capital One are facing down a potential class-action lawsuit in the US accusing them of negligence over the loss of 106 million individuals’ personal data.

Capital One is accused of failing to take appropriate action to […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

We’ve, um, changed our password policy, says CafePress amid reports of 23m pwned accounts

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wee T-shirts ‘n’ merch purveyor CafePress had 23 million user records swiped – reportedly back in February – and this morning triggered a mass password reset, calling it a change in internal policy.

Details of the security breach emerged when […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Oh sh*t’s, 11: VxWorks stars in today’s security thriller – hijack bugs discovered in countless gadgets’ network code

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Wind River has patched 11 security vulnerabilities in VxWorks that can be potentially exploited over networks or the internet to commandeer all sorts of equipment dotted around the planet.

This real-time operating system powers car electronics, factory robots and controllers, […]

By |July 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it’s not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher

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Exclusive Think you have bad luck? Imagine being the script kiddie who inadvertently tried and failed to pwn an Akamai security pro.

Larry Cashdollar, a senior security response engineer at the US-based global web giant, told us late last week he […]

By |July 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Brit infosec firms urge PM Boris to reform the Computer Misuse Act

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A group of British infosec companies has written to UK prime minister Boris Johnson asking him to reform the Computer Misuse Act 1990, saying the act “has failed to keep pace with technological and market developments, inadvertently prohibiting a large […]

By |July 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

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Scanning of random ports and the use of encrypted malware by online criminals is on the rise, according to a threat report by Sonicwall.

By the end of 2018, around 20 per cent of all malware attacks (based on Sonicwall’s sampling of […]

By |July 30th, 2019|Cyber News|