Monthly Archives: August 2019

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As browser rivals block third-party tracking, Google pitches ‘Privacy Sandbox’ peace plan

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On Thursday, Google reminded everyone who might have forgotten that “privacy is paramount to us” and announced an initiative called “Privacy Sandbox” that proposes paving over a few privacy pitfalls without suffocating its ad business.

It takes a certain chutzpah […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Contacts-slurping Android malware sneaked onto Google Play store – twice

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Android spyware – open-source spyware, no less – has found its way onto the Google Play store, according to researchers from ESET.

The nefarious software masqueraded as a fully functional internet radio app targeted at the Balouch people of Pakistan, […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Shhh! Microsoft, Intel, Google and more sign up to the Confidential Computing Consortium

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The Linux Foundation has signed up the likes of Microsoft and Google for its Confidential Computing Consortium, a group with the laudable goal of securing sensitive data.

The group – which also includes Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Swisscom […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty

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A security bod angry at Valve’s handling of bug reports has released a zero-day vulnerability affecting the games giant’s flagship Steam app.

Russia-based bug hunter Vasily Kravets said that he was releasing details of the flaw, an elevation of privilege […]

By |August 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

The Joy of Six… critical security patches: Cisco small biz switches open to hijacking via web UI

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Cisco has emitted a fresh round of software updates to address security holes in its network switches and controllers.

Switchzilla’s latest patch bundle includes six alerts for what it rates as critical issues, including flaws in its Small Business 220 Series switches […]

By |August 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Finally. Thanks so much, nerds. Google, Apple, Mozilla end government* internet spying for good

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On Wednesday, Google, Apple, and Mozilla said their web browsers will block the Kazakhstan root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate – following reports that ISPs in the country have required customers to install a government-issued certificate that enables online spying.

According […]

By |August 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Here’s a top tip: Don’t trust the new guy – block web domains less than a month old. They are bound to be dodgy

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IT admins could go a long way towards protecting their users from malware and other dodgy stuff on the internet if they ban access to any web domain less than a month old.

This advice comes from Unit 42, the […]

By |August 22nd, 2019|Exploits|

Sorry script kiddies, hacktivism isn’t cool anymore: No one cares about stuff that’s easy-peasy to defend against

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The youthful doings of US presidential wannabe Beto O’Rourke are in sharp decline, according to threat intel biz Recorded Future, which reckons folk have fallen out of love with hacktivism.

The company’s Insikt Group division said that over the past […]

By |August 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don’t forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLC

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VideoLAN has issued an update to address a baker’s dozen of CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its widely used VLC player software.

The VLC update includes patches to clear up flaws that range in impact from denial of service (read: application crashes) to […]

By |August 21st, 2019|Cyber News|

30+ countries, 160,000 emails, $4.2m in cyber-heists… maybe it’s time for the Silence hacker crew to change its name

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The rapidly growing hacking crew dubbed Silence, has – in less than three years – gone from ransacking small regional banks in Eastern Europe to stealing millions from some of the largest international banks.

A report issued this morning by […]

By |August 21st, 2019|Cyber News|