Yearly Archives: 2019

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UK data regulator threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt

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The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has warned BA it faces a whopping £183.39m following the theft of million customer records from its website and mobile app servers.

The record-breaking fine – more or less the lower end of the price of one […]

By |July 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Medway Council reforms eforms to stop blurting out residents’ details

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Medway council in Kent has corked a hole in its website that spat out residents’ names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses after a Reg reader got in touch to complain.

The breach appeared courtesy of some of Medway Council’s electronic […]

By |July 8th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cisco delivers Patch Tuesday warmup with bundle of 18 bug fixes

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Cisco has delivered a bundle of 17 security updates to address 18-CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its networking and communications gear.

Switchzilla has classified 10 of the fixed bugs as high security issues, with exploits leading to everything from command and code execution to […]

By |July 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach

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The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has confirmed it suffered a security breach of its payroll systems, which was discovered last month, saying no staff data had been compromised.

It was previously feared that hackers could have stolen bank details for leading […]

By |July 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Russian ‘Silence’ hacking crew turns up the volume – with $3m-plus cyber-raid on bank’s cash machines

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A prominent Russian hacker crew is seemingly expanding its reach – having just pulled off a multi-million dollar cyber-heist in Bangladesh, we’re told.

Singapore-based security outfit Group-IB told The Reg it believes the crooks, dubbed Silence, stole at least $3m (£2.4m) from Bangladesh-based Dutch-Bangla […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

D-Link must suffer indignity of security audits to settle with the Federal Trade Commission

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Taiwanese networking equipment vendor D-Link will have to submit to a decade of product security audits after agreeing to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission.

It has also pledged to maintain a “comprehensive software security programme” […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

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Updated YouTube, under fire since inception for building a business on other people’s copyrights and in recent years for its vacillating policies on irredeemable content, recently decided it no longer wants to host instructional hacking videos.

The written policy first appears in the […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook: ubiquitous and useful yet dangerous, impervious and misunderstood?

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Facial recognition is having a rough time of it lately. Just six months ago, people were excited about Apple allowing you to open your phone just by looking at it. A year ago, Facebook users joyfully tagged their friends […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good – Iranians hitting email flaw

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An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.

The US Cyber Command has issued an alert that hackers have been actively going after CVE-2017-11774. The flaw is a sandbox escape bug in […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|

Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling

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Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major video game companies, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison by a federal court.

Thompson, a resident of Utah, will also have […]

By |July 5th, 2019|Cyber News|