Yearly Archives: 2019

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Man arrested over UK’s Lancaster University data breach hack allegations

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Cops have cuffed a 25-year-old man from Bradford on suspicion of committing Computer Misuse Act crimes after Lancaster University suffered a data breach affecting more than 12,000 students and applicants.

In a statement the National Crime Agency said: “Officers from […]

By |July 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

With more hints dropped online on how to exploit BlueKeep, you’ve patched that Windows RDP flaw, right?

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Vital clues on how to exploit the notorious Windows RDP bug, aka CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, and hijack vulnerable boxes, emerged online this week.

The growing number of hints can be used by folks to develop working code that attacks Microsoft’s […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Low Barr: Don’t give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General

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Analysis If the cops and Feds can’t read people’s encrypted messages, you will install backdoors for us, regardless of the security hit, US Attorney General William Barr has told the technology world.

While speaking today in New York, Barr demanded eavesdropping […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Lancaster Uni data breach hits at least 12,500 wannabe students

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Lancaster University – which offers a GCHQ-accredited degree in security – has been struck by a “sophisticated and malicious phishing attack” that resulted in the leak of around 12,500 wannabe students’ personal data.

In a statement published yesterday evening, the […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Dodgy vids can hijack PCs via VLC security flaw, US, Germany warn. Software’s makers not app-y with that claim

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VLC is said to be once again vulnerable to remote-code execution – meaning a malicious video opened by the software could potentially crash the media player, or joyride it to run malware on the host machine.

However, the developers of […]

By |July 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

It’s 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump

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On Monday Apple released a fresh round of security fixes for a load of its operating systems and applications.

The July patch batch addresses vulnerabilities in iOS, MacOS, Safari, watchOS, and tvOS, though many of the updates are for common […]

By |July 23rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Israel’s NSO Group: Our malware? Slurp your cloud backups plus phone data? They’ve misunderstood

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Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has denied it developed malware that can steal user data from cloud services run by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

The Financial Times reported this morning that NSO’s Pegasus malware, which was previously known to be capable […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Excluding Huawei from UK’s 5G will harm security, MPs warn

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Excluding Huawei from the UK’s 5G network infrastructure would harm resilience and “lower security standards”, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) warned today.

It also called for Britain’s next prime minister, which most think will be uncombable hair syndrome sufferer Boris Johnson, […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Bulgaria hack: 20-year-old infosec whizz cuffed after ‘adult population’s’ finance deets nicked

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A 20-year-old infosec bod has been arrested in Bulgaria after most of the country’s population had their personal and financial details stolen.

Local media reported (in Bulgarian, so get your translation hat on) that “more than 5 million” people’s data – almost […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee

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Updated The UK government should slap a “moratorium on the current use of facial recognition technology, with “no further trials” until there is legal framework in place, a Parliamentary committee has warned today.

In an excoriating report (PDF), the Science and Technology […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|