Monthly Archives: July 2019

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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|

South Africans shivering in the dark after file-scrambling nasty hits Johannesburg power biz

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The city of Johannesburg in South Africa is battling to get electricity to some customers left in the dark by a ransomware infection.

Utility company City Power today confirmed news reports that file-scrambling malware had invaded and knackered its systems.

That infection basically prevents […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Backdoors won’t weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he’s right. They won’t – they’ll fscking torpedo it

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FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is rather peeved that you all think the US government is trying to weaken cryptography, privacy, and online security, by demanding backdoors in encryption software.

During a session at the International Conference on Cyber Security […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Sanctions-hit Russian developers fingered for crafting ‘Monokle’ Android snoopware

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A Russian software developer, currently under American sanctions for its purported role in the Kremlin’s interference with the 2016 US elections, is now selling spyware to governments.

Researchers at security house Lookout today reported  that St Petersburg-based Special Technology Centre (STC) […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Man arrested over UK’s Lancaster University data breach hack allegations

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Cops have cuffed a 25-year-old man from Bradford on suspicion of committing Computer Misuse Act crimes after Lancaster University suffered a data breach affecting more than 12,000 students and applicants.

In a statement the National Crime Agency said: “Officers from […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

With more hints dropped online on how to exploit BlueKeep, you’ve patched that Windows RDP flaw, right?

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Vital clues on how to exploit the notorious Windows RDP bug, aka CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, and hijack vulnerable boxes, emerged online this week.

The growing number of hints can be used by folks to develop working code that attacks Microsoft’s […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Low Barr: Don’t give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General

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Analysis If the cops and Feds can’t read people’s encrypted messages, you will install backdoors for us, regardless of the security hit, US Attorney General William Barr has told the technology world.

While speaking today in New York, Barr demanded eavesdropping […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|