Yearly Archives: 2019

/2019

Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub

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Microsoft has demonstrated its ElectionGuard electronic vote system at the Aspen Security Forum under way in Colorado and warned that nearly 10,000 of its customers have been targeted by nation-state attacks.

ElectionGuard aims to enable end-to-end verification of voting. Voters […]

By |July 22nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Viral App FaceApp Now Owns Access To More Than 150 Million People’s Faces And Names

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Everyone’s seen them: friends posting pictures of themselves now, and years in the future.

Viral app FaceApp has been giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and now age for several years. But at the same time, people […]

By |July 18th, 2019|Cyber News|

It was totally Samsung’s fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint

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Sprint has told some of its subscribers that a piss-poor Samsung website exposed their personal details to the internet.

The North American mobile carrier is right now sending out letters (PDF) to unlucky customers whose account and device details were leaked onto […]

By |July 17th, 2019|Cyber News|

Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has had another busy year trying to disrupt cybercrime.

The government agency today reported that in the past 12 months, it stopped 140,000 phishing attacks and took down more than 190,000 fraudulent sites […]

By |July 17th, 2019|Cyber News|

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

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Lenovo is emitting an emergency firmware patch for Iomega NAS devices after the network-attached storage boxes were discovered inadvertently offering millions of files to the internet via an insecure software interface.

Infosec outfits Vertical Structure, based in the Northern Ireland, […]

By |July 17th, 2019|Cyber News|

Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y’all boarding passes to spies

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A now-patched vulnerability in the Amadeus flight reservation system – used by airlines around the planet – could, or may, have been exploited by miscreants to view strangers’ boarding passes.

David Stubley, CEO at UK security consultancy 7 Elements, told […]

By |July 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

Symantec share price nose dives after rumored Broadcom biz gobble taken off the menu

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Symantec’s share price has plunged on reports that its planned merger with Broadcom has fallen through.

According to CNBC, several sources have confirmed that the deal is off after Symantec insisted on too high a price – $28 a share – to […]

By |July 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth’s ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken

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A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard’s anti-tracking measures.

David Strobinski, David Li, and Johannes Becker at Boston University told The Register how they found that the MAC randomization system of Bluetooth LE, […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

Blah blah Blaha: Slovak infosec firm ESET sues politico who called them ‘outrageous fascists’

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Infosec company ESET is reportedly suing a member of the Slovakian Parliament for insulting it over social media.

According to Slovakian news outlet SME, ESET became fed up with the antics of local Marxist politician Ľuboš Blaha, who was allegedly describing […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|

London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself

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A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has pleaded guilty to crimes under the UK’s Computer Misuse Act.

Sergeant Okechukwu Efobi, of Byron Road, Wealdstone, Harrow, was ordered […]

By |July 14th, 2019|Cyber News|