Yearly Archives: 2019

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Protip: If you’d rather cyber-scoundrels didn’t know the contents of your comp, don’t apply for a Pakistani passport

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A Pakistani government website was compromised with a keylogger and other malware that hoovered up a whole host of information about people checking on their passport application status.

Researchers from Trustwave discovered that the Scanbox JavaScript framework was running on […]

By |March 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

Thought you were done patching this week? Not if you’re using an Intel-powered PC or server

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Hot on the heels of this month’s security updates from Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP, Intel has kicked out a batch of its own bug patches.

Chipzilla’s March patch dump is highlighted by fixes for 19 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its graphics drivers for Windows. If […]

By |March 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

Microsoft changes DHCP to ‘Dammit! Hacked! Compromised! Pwned!’ Big bunch of security fixes land for Windows

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Patch Tuesday It’s the second Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: a fresh dump of security fixes from Microsoft, Adobe and others.

The March edition of Patch Tuesday includes fixes for 64 CVE-listed vulnerabilities, while Adobe addressed […]

By |March 13th, 2019|Cyber News|

Swiss electronic voting system like… wait for it, wait for it… Swiss cheese: Hole found amid public source code audit

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The Swiss Federal Chancellery (SFC) on Tuesday said security researchers have found an fascinating flaw in the Swiss Post’s e-voting system as part of an ongoing penetration test.

Said flaw, if successfully exploited by miscreants, would prevent officials from detecting unauthorized changes […]

By |March 13th, 2019|Cyber News|

ProtonMail back up in Russia after regime chokes access over ‘terrorist activity’

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ProtonMail is “back to running normally in Russia now” after the country blocked access to the encrypted email service, claiming that students at a sports competition were using it to spread anti-regime propaganda.

The Russian-language Habr news aggregator reported yesterday […]

By |March 13th, 2019|Cyber News|

This is the Send, encrypted end-to-end, this is the Send, my Mozillan friend

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Mozilla’s Firefox Send, a free encrypted file sharing service, graduated from test to official release on Tuesday after a year and half of refinement.

Available on the web at send.firefox.com and soon through an Android app, Send first appeared in August 2017 as a […]

By |March 13th, 2019|Cyber News|

Georgia Woman Arrested And Accused Of Aiding ISIS Cyber Group That Made ‘Kill Lists’

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A woman in Georgia has been arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support for ISIS.

Kim Anh Vo, 20, was arrested Tuesday morning in the town of Hephzibah.

Federal prosecutors in New York allege that Vo joined an online group called the […]

By |March 13th, 2019|Cyber News|

76% Indian businesses hit by cyber attacks: Survey

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Cybersecurity continues to be a major issue in India with 76% organizations hit by online attacks in the last year, as compared to 68% incidents across the globe, reveals a new global survey from security firm Sophos.

The survey, ‘7 Uncomfortable […]

By |March 13th, 2019|Cyber News|

To preserve its democracy, Indonesia must reconsider its current cyber-policy

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To preserve its democracy, Indonesia must reconsider its current cyber-policy and rethink its political censorship measures, Thomas Paterson writes.

Indonesia has one of the fastest growing economies in Asia with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slightly above 5 per cent per year. […]

By |March 12th, 2019|Cyber News|

Power supply resumes in Venezuela post cyber attack

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President Nicolas Maduro tweeted on March 10,”The National Electric System has been subject to multiple cyber-attacks which led to its crash and these have prevented the attempts of a national reconnection. However, we are striving to restore the power […]

By |March 12th, 2019|Cyber News|