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Mystery Git ransomware appears to blank commits, demands Bitcoin to rescue code

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Credits: The Register

Programmers say they’ve been hit by ransomware that seemingly wipes their Git repositories’ commits and replaces them with a ransom note demanding Bitcoin.

An unusual high number of developers have griped online about the effects of the software nasty, with […]

By |May 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

UK taxman falls foul of GDPR, agrees to wipe 5 million voice recordings used to make biometric IDs

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Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, aka the tax collector, has agreed to delete five million voice recordings it used to create biometric IDs.

The Voice IDs were used to speed access to its phone line but were created before the implementation […]

By |May 6th, 2019|Cyber News|

Lab to tackle cyber crime on cards

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Credits: The Hindu

The city police are in the process of setting up an exclusive cyber crime lab to deal with crimes against women and children.

A senior police officer said, “We propose to implement various security measures for women and children under […]

By |May 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Europol takes down Wall Street market: No, the other cesspool of dark international financial skullduggery

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Three people have been arrested in Germany in connection with a dark net souk for drugs, dodgy documents and stolen data called the Wall Street Market.

Earlier this year Finnish customs and French police worked together to take down Silkkitie, […]

By |May 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

We dunno what’s worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess

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Back in March, remote desktop specialist Citrix admitted hackers had romped through its core systems, and had purloined internal business documents. Now we’re finding out the intrusion was much worse than first thought.

A letter  to the California Attorney General this week, required […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it’s Cisco again

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Right on cue, Cisco on Wednesday patched a security vulnerability in some of its network switches that can be exploited by miscreants to commandeer the IT equipment and spy on people.

This comes immediately after panic this week over a […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

DHS tells agencies to move faster to fix critical cyber vulnerabilities

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The Department of Homeland Security wants agencies to move even faster to repair system vulnerabilities.

The 2015 requirement to fix critical system vulnerabilities in 30 days is now cut in half, and agencies must fix “high” vulnerabilities in 30 days. DHS […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Indian corporates seek to bridge skill gap in cyber security management

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Credits: The Hindu

After a malware attack that brought much of the work at his office to a standstill for two days, Koushik Mitra enrolled for a course in cyber security.

“The drive on the cloud got infected and our work was affected […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks over Ecuador embassy bail-jumping

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Former WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has been sentenced to 11 months in prison after jumping bail and fleeing into Ecuador’s London embassy for more than seven years.

Delivering sentence at Southwark, her honour Judge Deborah Taylor said: “Your continued residency [in Ecuador’s […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

NordVPN rapped by ad watchdog over insecure public Wi-Fi claims

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NordVPN has been told to stop misleading world+dog with claims in telly ads that public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure.

Britons will be familiar with NordVPN’s recent ad spot, which featured some credulous loon in a railway carriage handing out his […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|