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Microsoft: Yo dawg, we heard you liked Windows password expiry policies. So we expired your expiry policy

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Microsoft has finally decided to get rid of password expiration policies in Windows because forcing people to reset their passwords periodically harms security.

Word arrived from Redmond via Wednesday’s draft release of the security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10 version 1903. […]

By |April 26th, 2019|Cyber News|

FYI: Yeah, the cops can force your finger onto a suspect’s iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

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Analysis A US judge gave the cops permission to force people’s fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.

Specifically, Judge Judith Dein, of the federal district court of Massachusetts, gave agents […]

By |April 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Sophos antivirus tools. Working Windows box. Latest Patch Tuesday fixes. Pick two: ‘Puters knackered by bad combo

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Updated Unlucky Sophos antivirus users face a dilemma: either uninstall the software, or install April’s Windows security fixes. That’s because having both in place at the same time will bork their machines.

On April 9, Microsoft rolled out its usual Patch Tuesday vulnerability […]

By |April 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Brit spy chief: We need trust or we won’t have a ‘licence to operate in cyberspace’

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Cyber UK 2019 GCHQ’s director-general has called for more public trust in the controversial British spy agency.

Jeremy Fleming told the Cyber UK conference in Glasgow this morning that his agency “must have the legal, ethical and regulatory regimes to foster […]

By |April 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

IT engineer held for hacking into payment gateway of top bourse

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The newly set up Maharastra cyber cell made its first arrest on Tuesday. The accused is a 28-year old software engineer, who had hacked into the payment gateway of a leading bourse for day-trading causing nearly Rs 42 lakh losses […]

By |April 25th, 2019|Cyber News|

Cyber Threat: In 2018, every hour saw 1.4 lakh attempts were made to takeover accounts in India

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In 2018, India reported about 1.4 lakh account takeover (ATO) login attempts every hour from people using stolen or generated username and password, a latest cyber security report has revealed.

According to the 2018 ‘Credential Stuffing: Attacks and Economies’ report by […]

By |April 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Wannacry-slayer Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation

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Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher who shot to fame after successfully halting the Wannacry ransomware epidemic, has pleaded guilty to crafting online bank-account-raiding malware.

For nearly two years now, Hutchins, 24, has been living in the US, while out on bail […]

By |April 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

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A trio of Belgium-based boffins have created a ward that renders wearers unrecognizable to software trained to detect people.

In a research paper distributed through ArXiv in advance of its presentation at computer vision workshop CV-COPS 2019, Simen Thys, Wiebe Van Ranst and […]

By |April 24th, 2019|Cyber News|

Wipro confirms IT systems hack, hires forensic investigation firm

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Wipro confirmed its IT systems have been breached and said it has hired a forensic firm, after cybersecurity investigation website KrebsOnSecurity reported that hackers had compromised the IT company’s systems and used them launch attacks on the firm’s clients.

The site reported the […]

By |April 16th, 2019|Cyber News|

SE Asia ‘vulnerable’ to NK cyber hit

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North Korea is a “determined and sophisticated cyber actor in need of financial resources,” claims a newly published security report, that could significantly step up its efforts to target Southeast Asia’s “nascent but burgeoning cryptocurrency industry” as it continues […]

By |April 16th, 2019|Cyber News|