Monthly Archives: April 2019

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Just a little FYI: Filtering doodad in Adblock Plus opens door to third-party malware injection

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A feature introduced last year in Adblock Plus and a few other related content blocking browser extensions allows providers of filtering lists, under certain conditions, to execute arbitrary code on web pages.

Adblock Plus v3.2 for Chrome, Firefox and Opera, […]

By |April 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

What’s long, hard, and full of seamen? The US Navy’s latest cybersecurity war gaming classes

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The US Navy is looking to hire someone to teach the basics of cybersecurity to its sailors.

Companies have until May 6 to make their pitch to the Navy Postgraduate School on exercises it can use with its course on Cyber Operations […]

By |April 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out

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A British Army Watchkeeper drone stalled itself and crashed into the sea on a bad weather flight test, military investigators have said – though most of the wreckage was never found.

The unmanned aircraft, tail number WK042, fell from the […]

By |April 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts

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On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January, Microsoft has faced another breach affecting its web-based email services.

Microsoft  has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain […]

By |April 15th, 2019|Cyber News|

IE under fire, Triton goes under the microscope, and Norsk Hydro reeling from ransomware attack

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Need another reason to quit using Internet Explorer? How about this XXE zero-day?
Microsoft has all but killed off Internet Explorer, but more than a few PC owners continue to hold out. Hopefully a bug unveiled this week will help […]

By |April 15th, 2019|Cyber News|

US-Cert alert! Thanks to a massive bug, VPN now stands for “Vigorously Pwned Nodes”

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The US-Cert is raising alarms following the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in multiple VPN services.

A warning from the DHS cyber security team references the CMU Cert Coordination Center’s bulletin on the failure of some VPN providers to encrypt the cookie […]

By |April 15th, 2019|Cyber News|

Bug-hunters punch huge holes in WPA3 standard for Wi-Fi security

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Researchers have detailed a set of side-channel and downgrade attacks that potentially allow an attacker to compromise Wi-Fi networks equipped with WPA3 protections.

Mathy Vanhoef, of New York University Abu Dhabi, and Eyal Ronen, of Tel Aviv University, have disclosed five different […]

By |April 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

As Alexa’s secret human army is revealed, we ask: Who else has been listening in on you?

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Sneezes and homophones – words that sound like other words – are tripping smart speakers into allowing strangers to hear recordings of your private conversations.

These strangers live an eerie existence, a little like the Stasi agent in the movie The […]

By |April 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion

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One-time Aussie cupboard-dweller Julian Assange has been charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion by the US government.

Shortly after his arrest in London today – which followed the Ecuadorian embassy handing him over to British police – a US indictment dated […]

By |April 11th, 2019|Cyber News|

Lazarus Group rises again from the digital grave with Hoplight malware for all

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The Lazarus Group hacking operation, thought to be controlled by the North Korean government, has a new malware toy to pitch at potential targets and the US is getting worried about it.

This according to a report from US-Cert, which say that […]

By |April 11th, 2019|Cyber News|