Monthly Archives: August 2019

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There’s fraud, and then there’s backdoor routers, fenced logins, malware, and bribing AT&T staff seven figures to unlock 2m phones

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AT&T staff were bribed $1m to slip the codes to unlock two million smartphones to a gang operating out of Pakistan, US prosecutors have claimed.

When those telco workers took too long to cough up the codes, the crew bought […]

By |August 7th, 2019|Cyber News|

PIN the blame on us, says Monzo in mondo security blunder: Bank card codes stored in log files as plain text

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Trendy online-only Brit bank Monzo is telling hundreds of thousands of its customers to pick a new PIN – after it discovered it was storing their codes as plain-text in log files.

As a result, 480,000 folks, a fifth of […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

F-B-Yikes! FBI bod allegedly hid spy camera under desk to snap coworker’s upskirt pics

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An FBI contractor has pleaded not guilty to charges that he installed a camera under a coworker’s desk to satisfy his “voyeur” fetish.

Joshua Green was working as a contractor in the J Edgar Hoover building – aka the FBI […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Googlers hate it! This one weird trick lets websites dodge Chrome 76’s defenses, detect you’re in Incognito mode

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A week ago, Google released Chrome 76, which included a change intended to prevent websites from detecting when browser users have activated Incognito mode.

Unfortunately, the web giant’s fix opened another hole elsewhere. It enabled a timing attack that can […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

The sea is dangerous and no one likes robots, so why not send a drone on rescue missions?

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The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is coughing up just shy of a million quid to see how drones could help with sea rescue and surveillance operations.

Interested parties have until 19 August to put in a bid and […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Class-action sueball flung at Capital One and GitHub over theft of 106 million folks’ details

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Code repository GitHub and credit-card-flinger Capital One are facing down a potential class-action lawsuit in the US accusing them of negligence over the loss of 106 million individuals’ personal data.

Capital One is accused of failing to take appropriate action to […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

We’ve, um, changed our password policy, says CafePress amid reports of 23m pwned accounts

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wee T-shirts ‘n’ merch purveyor CafePress had 23 million user records swiped – reportedly back in February – and this morning triggered a mass password reset, calling it a change in internal policy.

Details of the security breach emerged when […]

By |August 6th, 2019|Cyber News|