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Hackers target Telegram accounts through voicemail backdoor
Listening in: Humans hear the private info Siri accidentally records
US chases fraudulent bitcoin exchange BTC-e for $100m
Post-Equifax settlement, NY updates data breach notification laws
Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants
Microsoft preps to purge its cloud access security broker of shonky crypto protocols TLS 1.0, 1.1
Oh sh*t’s, 11: VxWorks stars in today’s security thriller – hijack bugs discovered in countless gadgets’ network code
Android exploit code emerges, ransomware goes south, Citrix calls off hack probe, and more
NAS targeted by brute force ransomware attacks
Three quarters of gamers suffer hate and harassment online
Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it’s not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher
Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election, Senate report says
Brit infosec firms urge PM Boris to reform the Computer Misuse Act
As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall
WannaCry hero gets off lightly, avoids prison – was justice done?
He’s coming home, he’s coming home … Hutchins’ coming home: British Wannacry killer held in US on malware dev rap set free by judge
Sysadmins need to know – how DO you pronounce “sudo”?
Happy SysAdminDay 2019!
BlueKeep guides make imminent public exploit more likely
Browser plug-ins peddled personal data from over 4m browsers
Cyberlaw wonks squint at NotPetya insurance smackdown: Should ‘war exclusion’ clauses apply to network hacks?
South Africans shivering in the dark after file-scrambling nasty hits Johannesburg power biz
Backdoors won’t weaken your encryption, wails FBI boss. And he’s right. They won’t – they’ll fscking torpedo it
Facebook gets its wrist slapped $5b for fumbling our data, confirms FTC
EvilGnome – Linux malware aimed at your laptop, not your servers
New York City moves to protect citizens’ location data
You can probably be identified from your anonymized data
Sanctions-hit Russian developers fingered for crafting ‘Monokle’ Android snoopware
Man arrested over UK’s Lancaster University data breach hack allegations
Apple’s July patchfest fixes bugs in multiple products
Facebook admits to Messenger Kids security hole
With more hints dropped online on how to exploit BlueKeep, you’ve patched that Windows RDP flaw, right?
Low Barr: Don’t give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General
Dodgy vids can hijack PCs via VLC security flaw, US, Germany warn. Software’s makers not app-y with that claim
SharePoint Online scam – sadly, phishing’s not dead
Programmer from hell plants logic bombs to guarantee future work
Lancaster Uni data breach hits at least 12,500 wannabe students
Big password hole in iOS 13 beta spotted by testers
Your Android’s accelerometer could be used to eavesdrop on your calls
FSB hackers drop files online
It’s 2019 and you can still pwn an iPhone with a website: Apple patches up iOS, Mac bugs in July security hole dump
Equifax to world+dog: If we give you this $700m, can you pleeeeease stop suing us about that mega-hack thing?
Chrome 76 blocks websites from detecting incognito mode
Hacked Bulgarian database reaches online forums
Cisco ‘in talks’ to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech
Stop facial recognition trials now, warns UK committee
Marketing biz bares folks’ data in the act of asking for their GDPR comms preferences
Palo Alto gateway security alert, FSB hack, scourge of data-stealing web plugins, and more
In the cooler for the next three years: Hacker of iCloud accounts used by athletes and rappers
When Harry met celly: NSA hoarder thrown in the clink for 9 years – after taking classified work home for decades
All very MoD-ern: RAF test pilot headed into space with Virgin, £30m small sat demo project
Israel’s NSO Group: Our malware? Slurp your cloud backups plus phone data? They’ve misunderstood
Your biz won’t be hacked by a super-leet exploit. It’ll be Bob in sales opening a dodgy email
Excluding Huawei from UK’s 5G will harm security, MPs warn
Firefox to pile on more native privacy features
Shapeshifting Morpheus chip aims to baffle hackers
FaceApp privacy panic sets internet alight
2015 database hack is the terrible gift that keeps giving for Slack: Tens of thousands of passwords now reset
It’s never good when ‘Magecart’ and ‘bulletproof’ appear in the same sentence, but here we are
Bulgaria hack: 20-year-old infosec whizz cuffed after ‘adult population’s’ finance deets nicked
Those facial recognition trials in the UK? They should be banned, warns Parliamentary committee
Hacked Bluetooth hair straighteners are too hot to handle
Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool
Microsoft demos end-to-end voting verification system ElectionGuard, code will be on GitHub
Still not using HTTPS? Firefox is about to shame you
‘Member Ke3chang? They’re still at it, you know. Euro diplomats targeted by ‘China-based’ hacker crew
Dutch cops collar fella accused of crafting and flogging Office macro nasties to cyber-crooks
Fresh stalkerware crop pops up on Google’s Android Play Store, swiftly yanked offline
Don’t give it away, give it away, give it away now, bot busting biz tells reCAPTCHA data serfs
For pity’s sake, groans Mimecast, teach your workforce not to open obviously dodgy emails
Email scammers extract over $300m a month from American suits’ pockets
RDP exposed: the wolves already at your door
Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools
Facebook rolls out anti-scam reporting tool in UK
Researchers hide data in music – and human ears can’t detect it
It was totally Samsung’s fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint
Let’s open the Mystery Data Security Blunder box, and see what’s inside today… Ah! Hotel reservations and more
Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk
GandCrab ransomware revisited – is it back under a (R)evil new guise?
Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet
Bluetooth LE’s anti-tracking technology beaten
$5b privacy fine against Facebook seen as ‘chump change’
Ransomware attackers demand $1.8m from US college
Asian consortium plans blockchain-based mobile ID system
Amadeus! Amadeus! Pwn me Amadeus! Airline check-in bug may have exposed all y’all boarding passes to spies
Alan Turing chosen for the UK’s new £50 note – a cracking result!
Symantec share price nose dives after rumored Broadcom biz gobble taken off the menu
Instagram bug could have allowed anyone to take over your account
Bust the password for an air-gapped machine – with its keyboard LEDs
Apple quietly removes Zoom’s hidden web server from Macs
FCC underwhelmed by carriers’ sluggish robocall efforts
Ransomware attackers, US mayors say you should go jump in a lake
Malicious code ousted from PureScript’s npm installer – but who put it there in the first place?
New old Windows bug emerges, your ‘strong’ password is anything but, plus plenty more
In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93
Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth’s ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken
Blah blah Blaha: Slovak infosec firm ESET sues politico who called them ‘outrageous fascists’
London cop illegally used police database to monitor investigation into himself
UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops’ deeply flawed facial recognition trials
IT pros: we’re understaffed, under-resourced and under pressure