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The city of Johannesburg in South Africa is battling to get electricity to some customers left in the dark by a ransomware infection.

Utility company City Power today confirmed news reports that file-scrambling malware had invaded and knackered its systems.

That infection basically prevents […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is rather peeved that you all think the US government is trying to weaken cryptography, privacy, and online security, by demanding backdoors in encryption software.

During a session at the International Conference on Cyber Security […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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A Russian software developer, currently under American sanctions for its purported role in the Kremlin’s interference with the 2016 US elections, is now selling spyware to governments.

Researchers at security house Lookout today reported  that St Petersburg-based Special Technology Centre (STC) […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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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 […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]