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Chinese debt collectors jailed for cyberbullying under ‘soft violence’ laws
August 5, 2020
Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program’s architect thinks the money could be better spent
August 4, 2020
As the world descends into madness, it’s good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches
August 4, 2020
They say the tooth will set you free… so Brit dentist trade union tells members: ‘Bad news; we’ve been hacked’
August 4, 2020
Uncle Sam blames best pal China as Taidoor crew’s dirty RAT takes aim at Western orgs, but others are less sure
August 4, 2020
GandCrab ransomware hacker arrested in Belgium
August 4, 2020
Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there’s been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail
August 4, 2020
Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they’re being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets
August 3, 2020
Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security
August 3, 2020
UK Defence Committee chair muses treating TikTok like Huawei: So eyeball its code then ban it from the country?
August 3, 2020
Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns
August 3, 2020
‘We stopped ransomware’ boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by ‘stopped’ he means ‘got insurance to pay off crooks’
August 3, 2020
Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday
August 3, 2020
Twitter hack – three suspects charged in the US
August 1, 2020
Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors
July 31, 2020
Travel company CWT avoids ransomware derailment by paying $4.5m blackmail demand
July 31, 2020
First rule of Ransomware Club is do not pay the ransom, but it looks like Carlson Wagonlit Travel didn’t get the memo
July 31, 2020
Burn baby burn, plastic inferno! Infosec researchers turn 3D printers into self-immolating suicide machines
July 31, 2020
In the market for a second-hand phone? Check it’s still supported by the vendor – almost a third sold are not
July 31, 2020
EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews
July 31, 2020
Fun fact: If you noticed a while ago Zoom’s web client going AWOL for a week, it’s because someone found a passcode-cracking hole
July 31, 2020
Twitter says spear-phishing attack hooked its staff and led to celebrity account hijack
July 31, 2020
Infosec bod: I’ve found zero-day flaws in Tor’s bridge relay defenses. Tor Project: Only the zero part is right
July 30, 2020
Servers at risk from “BootHole” bug – what you need to know
July 30, 2020
If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it: Gear maker won’t patch vulnerable gear despite live proof-of-concept code
July 30, 2020
DXC says ransomware attack disrupted customer operations at insurance services arm but barely left a scratch
July 30, 2020
YOU… SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps
July 29, 2020
GRUB2, you’re getting too bug for your boots: Config file buffer overflow is a boon for malware seeking to drill deeper into a system
July 29, 2020
US tax service says, “2FA is a must!”
July 29, 2020
Chinese ambassador to UK threatens to withdraw Huawei, £3bn investment if comms giant banned from building 5G
July 29, 2020
No wonder Brit universities report hacks so often: Half of staff have had zero infosec training, apparently
July 29, 2020
Japan starts work on global quantum crypto network
July 29, 2020
Reply-All storm flares as email announcing privacy policy puts 500 addresses in the ‘To’ field, not ‘BCC’
July 29, 2020
We’re suing Google for harvesting our personal info even though we opted out of Chrome sync – netizens
July 28, 2020
Firefox 79 is out – it’s a double-update month so patch now!
July 28, 2020
MI6 tried to intervene in independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers – but they said sorry, so it’s OK
July 28, 2020
Find out this week: How to build a cyber threat intelligence program while cutting through the noise
July 28, 2020
Tune in this week to learn all about an identity-centric approach to zero-trust security
July 27, 2020
Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections
July 27, 2020
Garmin staggers back to its feet: Aviation systems seem to be lagging, though. Here’s why
July 27, 2020
ProLock ransomware – new report reveals the evolution of a threat
July 27, 2020
Monday review – our recent stories revisited
July 27, 2020
UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court
July 27, 2020
Psst.. You may want to patch this under-attack data-leaking Cisco bug – and these Ripple20 hijack flaws
July 25, 2020
It’s a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3,000+ insecure databases – and a data-wiping bot
July 24, 2020
Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?
July 24, 2020
ASUS routers could be reflashed with malware – patch now!
July 24, 2020
Brit unis hit in Blackbaud hack inform students that their data was nicked, which has gone as well as you might expect
July 24, 2020
UK’s NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack
July 24, 2020
Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist
July 24, 2020
Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you’ve made technology history. For all the wrong reasons
July 23, 2020
Bridgecrew: Our mission is to set cloud security free
July 23, 2020
Sports team nearly paid a $1.25m transfer fee… to cybercrooks
July 23, 2020
Twitter hack latest: Up to 36 compromised accounts had their private messages read – including a Dutch politician’s
July 23, 2020
Ubiquiti, go write on the board 100 times, ‘I must validate input data before using it’… Update silently breaks IDS/IPS
July 23, 2020
UK surveillance laws tightened up as most spying demands to be subject to warrants
July 23, 2020
Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters
July 23, 2020
Stick that in your named pipe and smoke it: Flaw in Citrix Workspace app could let remote attacker pwn host
July 22, 2020
Capita’s bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on
July 22, 2020
Pakistan bans one Chinese app and gives TikTok a final warning to clean up its act
July 22, 2020
Twilio: Someone broke into our unsecured AWS S3 silo, added ‘non-malicious’ code to our JavaScript SDK
July 21, 2020
It’s July 2020, and your PC or Mac can be pwned by a dodgy Photoshop file – Adobe emits critical patch batch
July 21, 2020
Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash
July 21, 2020
Stick that in your named pipe and smoke it: Flaw in Citrix Workspace could let remote attacker pwn host machine
July 21, 2020
UK intel committee on Russia: Social media firms should remove state disinformation. What was that, MI5? ████████?
July 21, 2020
Apple was the only Fortune 50 company to foresee COVID-19 pandemic risk and properly insure against it – Forrester
July 21, 2020
Computer misuse crimes down 9% on last year in England and Wales, says Office of National Statistics
July 20, 2020
7 VPNs that leaked their logs – the logs that “didn’t exist”
July 20, 2020
You’ve had your pandemic holiday, now Microsoft really is going to kill off TLS 1.0, 1.1
July 20, 2020
An axe age, a sword age, Privacy Shield is riven, but what might that mean for European businesses?
July 20, 2020
UK.gov admits it has not performed legally required data protection checks for COVID-19 tracing system
July 20, 2020
Is your Office 365 locked down in lockdown?
July 20, 2020
Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos
July 20, 2020
Twitter hackers busted 2FA to access accounts and then reset user passwords
July 20, 2020
Google Cloud adds security capabilities for sensitive workloads
July 19, 2020
Seven ‘no log’ VPN providers accused of leaking – yup, you guessed it – 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet
July 17, 2020
Judge green-lights Facebook, WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against spyware biz NSO, unleashing Zuck’s lawyers
July 17, 2020
Cloud biz Blackbaud caved to ransomware gang’s demands – then neglected to inform customers for two months
July 17, 2020
Ew, that’s unsanitary: SEO plugin for WordPress would run arbitrary JavaScript inputs instead of scrubbing them
July 17, 2020
Apple’s latest updates are out for iPhones and Macs – get them now!
July 17, 2020
Twitter admits 130 A-lister accounts compromised to promote Bitcoin scam after ‘social engineering’ attack
July 17, 2020
This week of never-ending security updates continue. Now Apple emits dozens of fixes for iOS, macOS, etc
July 16, 2020
FYI Russia is totally hacking the West’s labs in search of COVID-19 vaccine files, say UK, US, Canada cyber-spies
July 16, 2020
Privacy Shield binned after EU court rules transatlantic data protection arrangements ‘inadequate’
July 16, 2020
Finally done with all those Patch Tuesday updates? Think again! Here’s 33 Cisco bug fixes, with five criticals
July 16, 2020
Twitter says hack of key staff led to celebrity, politician, biz account hijack mega-spree
July 16, 2020
Report: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight after Trump gave the OK, say US government officials
July 16, 2020
Twitter limits tweeting as prominent accounts spam out cryptocoin scams
July 16, 2020
Twitter mass hacking: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Biden, Obama, more hijacked to peddle Bitcoin scam
July 15, 2020
If Microsoft 365 security is so great, why do its customers keep getting hacked?
July 15, 2020
Is it Patch Blues-day for Outlook? Microsoft’s email client breaks worldwide, leaves everyone stumped
July 15, 2020
Patch now! SIGRED – the wormable hole in your Windows servers
July 15, 2020
Cambridge student rebuilds Polish Enigma-code-breaking box that paved the way for Turing … and Victory!
July 15, 2020
Citrix denies dark web claim of network compromise and ransomware attack
July 15, 2020
Old-school security hole perfect for worms and remote hijackings found lurking in Windows Server DNS code
July 15, 2020
So kind of SAP NetWeaver to hand out admin accounts to anyone who can reach it. You’ll want to patch this
July 14, 2020
RATicate malware gang goes commercial
July 14, 2020
Burn baby burn, infosec inferno: Just 21% of security pros haven’t considered quitting their current job
July 14, 2020
Collabera hacked: IT staffing’n’services giant hit by ransomware, employee personal data stolen
July 14, 2020
Guilty: Russian miscreant who hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring, stole 200-million-plus account records
July 14, 2020