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If you’re using Oracle’s WebLogic Server, check for security fixes: Bug exploited in the wild to install ransomware

 

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IT admins overseeing Oracle’s WebLogic Server installations need to get patching immediately: miscreants are exploiting what was a zero-day vulnerability in the software to pump ransomware into networks.

The Cisco Talos security team said one its customers discovered it had […]

By |May 2nd, 2019|Cyber News|

Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop ‘backdoor’ was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone

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A claimed deliberate spying “backdoor” in Huawei routers used in the core of Vodafone Italy’s 3G network was, in fact, a Telnet-based remote debug interface.

The Bloomberg financial newswire reported this morning that Vodafone had found “vulnerabilities going back years with […]

By |May 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

India Set To Get Defence Cyber Agency to Fight Pak, Chinese Hackers

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Credits: India Times

In a bid to bolster its capabilities to tackle threats emanating from hackers, mostly from China and Pakistan, India is all set to have Defence Cyber Agency (DCA) by next month. This agency will be headquartered in the capital.

Senior […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI’s private keys on Github

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A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI’s AES private keys onto Github in plain text.

That key, as we revealed at the time in January 2018, allowed world+dog to […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Flashback: From Docker Hub hack to Facebook’s burglar-friendly API to phone fingerprint bypasses…

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Roundup Here’s your quick-fire summary of recent computer security news.

Docker: Someone broke into a database holding Docker Hub account information, and managed to siphon off non-financial records on 190,000 users before the exfiltration was, presumably, detected and stopped.

The intrusion happened on Thursday, April […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

America’s anti-hacking laws are so loose, even Donald Trump Jr broke them. So, what do we do about it?

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That’s not an opinion, incidentally, it’s a fact, at least according to the Mueller Report, finally published earlier this month. However, that dossier makes it plain that federal prosecutors ultimately decided not to press charges against Don Junior, and that […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

Powershell, the Gandcrab infection and the long-forgotten server

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CyberUK 2019 If your hair isn’t already grey enough, GCHQ staff have revealed a handful of infosec incidents that, in their words, “surprised us”.

During a talk at CyberUK 2019, the annual shindig of the spy agency’s public-facing offshoot, the National […]

By |April 30th, 2019|Cyber News|

GCHQ To Work With Banks To Thwart Fraud, Cyber Attacks

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Credits: The Silicion

The UK’s top secret eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, has joined the fight against fraud and cyber attacks experienced by British businesses and financial institutions.

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming has reportedly said that the agency will begin sharing intelligence with British banks […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

Zuck it up: Facebook hit with triple whammy of legal probes, action in Canada, US, Ireland

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Credits: The Register

Here’s a triple Thursday whammy: Facebook has been accused of breaking Canada’s privacy laws, and is being investigated in the US and Ireland for seemingly mishandling people’s private data.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) launched an […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans’ phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don’t need that no more

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The NSA’s mass-logging of people’s phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks – is set to end as it’s no longer worth the hassle.

The blanket […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|