Yearly Archives: 2019

/2019

Breaking news: Apple un-breaks break on jailbreak break

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Apple has issued an update to address a potentially serious security flaw it re-opened in the latest version of iOS.

Monday’s iOS 12.4.1 update contains a single fix: a patch to address CVE-2019-8605. The use-after-free vulnerability would let an application gain the […]

By |August 27th, 2019|Cyber News|

Biz forked out $115k to tout ‘Time AI’ crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it

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Crown Sterling, a Newport Beach, California-based biz that calls itself “a leading digital cryptographic firm,” is suing UBM, the UK-based owner of the Black Hat USA conference, in America for allegedly violating its sponsorship agreement.

The complaint , filed late last week […]

By |August 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

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Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates to make it seem less important – and is now telling the world it EOL’d the vulnerable monitoring software […]

By |August 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

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A hacker from Kent, England, has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.

Grant West, 27, of Ashcroft Caravan Park, Sheerness, made most of the money through phishing scams targeting companies and individuals around […]

By |August 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

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GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.

GitHub already supports two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS texts (the least secure option, given that phone numbers can be hijacked and SMS messages intercepted), one-time password authentication apps, or […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

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Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in Steam after the corporation refused to pay out bug bounties for the flaws.

On Thursday, Valve said it would patch both […]

By |August 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

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|