Yearly Archives: 2019

/2019

Decoding America’s spies: What does the NSA’s cryptic memo really mean? Citizens illegally spied on again

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Analysis The NSA illegally gathered a trove of American citizens’ phone and text message records just four months after it promised it had taken steps to literally not do that again.

That’s the upshot of a document  provided to the American Civil […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Epyc crypto flaw? AMD emits firmware fix for server processors after Googler smashes RAM encryption algorithms

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Updated Microchip slinger AMD has issued a firmware patch to fix the encryption in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization technology (SEV), used to defend the memory of Linux KVM virtual machines running on its Epyc processors.

“Through ongoing collaboration with industry researchers AMD became […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

Wipro wasn’t a one-off: Same hacking crew targeted scores of firms, big and small – researchers

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The criminals behind the Wipro phishing attack from earlier this year also targeted Western Union, Expedia, Rackspace and a whole host of other big companies, according to threat intel outfit RiskIQ.

In a report published this morning the firm said […]

By |June 29th, 2019|Cyber News|

What the cell…? Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn’t notice the hackers setting up VPN points

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Hackers infiltrated the networks of at least ten cellular telcos around the world, and remained hidden for years, as part of a long-running tightly targeted surveillance operation, The Register has learned. This espionage campaign is still ongoing, it is claimed.

Cyber-spy hunters […]

By |June 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Iran is doing to our networks what it did to our spy drone, claims Uncle Sam: Now they’re bombing our hard drives

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Hackers operating on behalf of the Iranian government have turned destructive, the US Department of Homeland Security has claimed.

A statement issued over the weekend by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director Christopher Krebs describes how Tehran-backed miscreants have gone from […]

By |June 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Iran denies being hit by US cyberattack

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Credits: Aljazeera

Iran says that no cyberattack against it has ever succeeded, after US media reported the US launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries.

“The media are asking about the veracity of the alleged cyberattack against Iran. No successful attack has been carried […]

By |June 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

US ‘launched cyberattacks on Iran weapons’ after drone downing

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Credits: Aljazeera

The United States military launched cyberattacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network on Thursday after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, US officials have said.

US President Donald Trump ordered a retaliatory military attack against Iran after the drone shootdown but then called it […]

By |June 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Digi-dosh exchange Coinbase: Someone tried to pwn our staff via this week’s Firefox zero-day security hole

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The development and release of a critical Firefox security patch this week was, in part, triggered by an attempted cyber-heist of crypto-coin exchange Coinbase.

Coinbase chief information security officer Philip Martin said on Wednesday night the digital-dosh trading site was […]

By |June 21st, 2019|Cyber News|

Millions of Windows Dell PCs need patching: Give-me-admin security gremlin found lurking in bundled support tool

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Dell’s troubleshooting software SupportAssist, bundled with the US tech titan’s home and business computers, has a security flaw that can be exploited by malware and rogue logged-in users to gain administrator powers.

The Texan system slinger today issued an advisory warning that […]

By |June 21st, 2019|Cyber News|

If Uncle Sam could quit using insecure .zip files to swap info across the ‘net, that would be great, says Silicon Ron Wyden

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Influential US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is not happy about Uncle Sam’s employees using insecure .zip files and other archive formats to electronically transfer information.

The Oregon Democrat today sent a letter  to Walter Copan, director of America’s National Institute of […]

By |June 20th, 2019|Cyber News|