Monthly Archives: August 2019

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Dixons hits back at McAfee’s £30m antivirus sueball: Your AV didn’t work on Windows 10S

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Brit retailer Dixons has lashed back at McAfee’s £30m High Court broadside, saying it was entitled to promote rival antivirus (AV) tech from Symantec if McAfee’s software wouldn’t work on Windows 10S devices.

Not only was McAfee trying to punt […]

By |August 28th, 2019|Cyber News|

Android PDF app with just 100m downloads caught sneaking malware into mobes

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An Android PDF maker with more than 100 million downloads from the official Play Store has been caught silently installing malware on victims’ phones.

Kaspersky’s eggheads Igor Golovin and Anton Kivva claim CamScanner, an application that turns images into PDFs […]

By |August 28th, 2019|Cyber News|

We will hack back if you tamper with our shiz, NATO declares to world’s black hats

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NATO’s secretary-general has once again declared that members of the alliance will respond with force to cyber-attacks, in line with Article 5 of its founding treaty.

Jens Stoltenberg, the North American and western/northern Europe alliance’s main man, wrote in the latest issue […]

By |August 28th, 2019|Cyber News|

Can’t bear to part with that well-worn copy of Windows 7? Microsoft might let you keep it updated an extra year

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With Windows 7’s official retirement less than five months away, Redmond is offering some business customers a way to squeeze a bit more life out of the beloved OS.

A recently unearthed provision in the Windows 7 and Office 2010 end […]

By |August 27th, 2019|Cyber News|

Breaking news: Apple un-breaks break on jailbreak break

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Apple has issued an update to address a potentially serious security flaw it re-opened in the latest version of iOS.

Monday’s iOS 12.4.1 update contains a single fix: a patch to address CVE-2019-8605. The use-after-free vulnerability would let an application gain the […]

By |August 27th, 2019|Cyber News|

Biz forked out $115k to tout ‘Time AI’ crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it

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Crown Sterling, a Newport Beach, California-based biz that calls itself “a leading digital cryptographic firm,” is suing UBM, the UK-based owner of the Black Hat USA conference, in America for allegedly violating its sponsorship agreement.

The complaint , filed late last week […]

By |August 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

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Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates to make it seem less important – and is now telling the world it EOL’d the vulnerable monitoring software […]

By |August 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

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A hacker from Kent, England, has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.

Grant West, 27, of Ashcroft Caravan Park, Sheerness, made most of the money through phishing scams targeting companies and individuals around […]

By |August 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

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GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.

GitHub already supports two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS texts (the least secure option, given that phone numbers can be hijacked and SMS messages intercepted), one-time password authentication apps, or […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

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Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in Steam after the corporation refused to pay out bug bounties for the flaws.

On Thursday, Valve said it would patch both […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|