Monthly Archives: March 2019

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An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.

The handsets spaffed the data in clear text over the internet to a server behind the domain vnet.cn, […]

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Facebook today admitted it stored “some” of its addicts’ account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For “some”, read hundreds of millions.

The antisocial network quietly made the mea culpa in a statement that followed its breathless announcement of the Oculus Rift […]

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Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has lodged a complaint about Apple with the Russian competition authority.

It follows Apple’s rejection of Kaspersky’s Safe Kids app because of two features the latter regards as essential.

“According to Apple, the use of configuration profiles […]

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Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP.

The change is necessary, as Microsoft is unleashing its endpoint protection platform onto the hitherto virgin […]

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The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.

This is according to a report (registration required) from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation provider NexusGuard, who say that both the overall number of attacks and […]

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Norwegian power and metals giant Norsk Hydro is battling an extensive ransomware outbreak on its computers.

The biz, one of the world’s biggest makers of aluminum with sites in 50 countries, said on Tuesday that file-scrambling malware had infected its […]

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Eight out of the ten most exploited vulnerabilities tracked by threat intelligence biz Recorded Future in 2018 targeted Microsoft products – though number two on its list was, surprise surprise, a Flash flaw.

The most exploited vuln in the firm’s […]

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Vulnerable SSH client PuTTY has received a pile of security patches, with its lead maintainer admitting to the The Register that one fixed a “‘game over’ level vulnerability”.

The fixes implemented on PuTTY over the weekend include new features plugging a plethora […]

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IBM has issued a security alert over five vulnerabilities in its golden boy Watson analytics system.

Big Blue has issued an update today to clean up a series of security flaws in Watson that stem from the analytics system’s use […]

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Updated A German security researcher has revealed that one model of Fujitsu wireless keyboard will accept unauthenticated input, despite the presence of AES-128 encryption.

Matthias Deeg discovered that the LX901 would respond to unencrypted but correctly formatted keystroke commands broadcast nearby. […]