Yearly Archives: 2019

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Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI’s private keys on Github

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A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI’s AES private keys onto Github in plain text.

That key, as we revealed at the time in January 2018, allowed world+dog to […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Flashback: From Docker Hub hack to Facebook’s burglar-friendly API to phone fingerprint bypasses…

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Roundup Here’s your quick-fire summary of recent computer security news.

Docker: Someone broke into a database holding Docker Hub account information, and managed to siphon off non-financial records on 190,000 users before the exfiltration was, presumably, detected and stopped.

The intrusion happened on Thursday, April […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

America’s anti-hacking laws are so loose, even Donald Trump Jr broke them. So, what do we do about it?

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That’s not an opinion, incidentally, it’s a fact, at least according to the Mueller Report, finally published earlier this month. However, that dossier makes it plain that federal prosecutors ultimately decided not to press charges against Don Junior, and that […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Powershell, the Gandcrab infection and the long-forgotten server

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CyberUK 2019 If your hair isn’t already grey enough, GCHQ staff have revealed a handful of infosec incidents that, in their words, “surprised us”.

During a talk at CyberUK 2019, the annual shindig of the spy agency’s public-facing offshoot, the National […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

GCHQ To Work With Banks To Thwart Fraud, Cyber Attacks

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The UK’s top secret eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, has joined the fight against fraud and cyber attacks experienced by British businesses and financial institutions.

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming has reportedly said that the agency will begin sharing intelligence with British banks […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland

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Here’s a triple Thursday whammy: Facebook has been accused of breaking Canada’s privacy laws, and is being investigated in the US and Ireland for seemingly mishandling people’s private data.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) launched an […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans’ phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don’t need that no more

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The NSA’s mass-logging of people’s phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks – is set to end as it’s no longer worth the hassle.

The blanket […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy

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Microsoft has finally decided to get rid of password expiration policies in Windows because forcing people to reset their passwords periodically harms security.

Word arrived from Redmond via Wednesday’s draft release of the security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10 version 1903. […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect’s iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

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Analysis A US judge gave the cops permission to force people’s fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.

Specifically, Judge Judith Dein, of the federal district court of Massachusetts, gave agents […]

By |April 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: ‘Puters knackered by bad combo

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Updated Unlucky Sophos antivirus users face a dilemma: either uninstall the software, or install April’s Windows security fixes. That’s because having both in place at the same time will bork their machines.

On April 9, Microsoft rolled out its usual Patch Tuesday vulnerability […]

By |April 25th, 2019|Cyber News|