Security
Microsoft responds to PrintNightmare by making life that little bit harder for admins
Have they forgotten SysAdmin Appreciation Day so soon?
11 Aug 11:54 | 19
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Chinese espionage group targets Israel while suggesting the source could be Iran
FireEye says Israeli defense agencies were alert to compromises as China works to protect Belt and Road investments
11 Aug 07:32 | 12
Security
Avast, ye takeover lawyers! Norton LifeLock to acquire security rival
$8B deal will create smallbiz and consumer security monster
11 Aug 05:15 | 9
Security
Boffins propose Pretty Good Phone Privacy to end pretty invasive location data harvesting by telcos
Ready to go for telcos, but what's their incentive to lose all that lovely money?
11 Aug 00:06 | 18
Security
$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network servers after security snafu
Here's the addresses you need to block
10 Aug 20:51 | 40
Security
Microsoft Patch Tuesday bug drought: No, it's not climate change or unexpected code quality improvements
It's just temporary relief from the typical monthly repair routine
10 Aug 19:53 | 4
Security
We'll drop SBOMs on UK.gov to solve Telecoms Security Bill's technical demands, beams Cisco
Doc reveals more of what's causing industry to tear its hair out
10 Aug 09:26 | 10
Security
Splunk spots malware targeting Windows Server on AWS to mine Monero
RDP-enabled instances attacked, perhaps via Iran and China, then use Telegram desktop client for command and control
10 Aug 07:04 | 8
Security
Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system
Offer may not apply in China or anywhere else, experts warn
09 Aug 21:37 | 132
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Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell
And a very scary story of a job that went from white hat to murky shades of gray in the United Arab Emirates
09 Aug 04:02 | 8
Security
All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability
Security researchers found they could snoop on dynamic DNS traffic
06 Aug 19:34 | 33
Security
South Korea to test grenade-launching drones
Back on terra firma, ransomware rampage sees elevated security threat levels and giveaways to SMBs
06 Aug 06:30 | 31
Security
Microsoft wonders if disabling just-in-time compilation of JavaScript improves browser security
Edge is getting a 'Super Duper Security Mode' to test the idea. Yes, that is the actual name
06 Aug 05:30 | 41
Security
America enlists Big Tech to help it develop and execute cyber security plans
Players in ‘Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative’ include Microsoft, AWS, and Google
06 Aug 03:15 | 14
Security
US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO
Where there's a will, there's Huawei
06 Aug 00:13 | 30
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Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, warns professor
For now it's child abuse material but the tech has mission creep written in
05 Aug 22:00 | 363
Security
Got a cheap Cisco router in your home office? If it's one of these, there's an exposed RCE hole you need to plug
Patches issued for two CVE-rated vulns
05 Aug 13:28 | 10
Security
Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws
Party denies naming activist to police but apologises anyway
05 Aug 10:31 | 33
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Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search
Someone must have broken in and taken docs, said Leathermarket Community Benefit Society
Science
Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount
Is that the sound of hammering we can hear?
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Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon
Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?
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GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink
When it comes to ownership then details count
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Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop
Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in
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Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system
Offer may not apply in China or anywhere else, experts warn
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Russian Arm SoC now shipping in Russian PCs running Russian Linux
How much work can you do with eight Arm Cortex-A57 cores? Russia's government and military may be about to find out
Security
Splunk spots malware targeting Windows Server on AWS to mine Monero
RDP-enabled instances attacked, perhaps via Iran and China, then use Telegram desktop client for command and control
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$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network servers after security snafu
Here's the addresses you need to block
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Chair of Perl's Community Affairs Team quits as language overlords force org into hiatus
Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized'
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SolarWinds urges US judge to toss out crap infosec sueball: We got pwned by actual Russia, give us a break
Company says it didn't skimp on security before everything went wrong
04 Aug 15:34 | 20
Security
Google: Linux kernel and its toolchains are underinvested by at least 100 engineers
Security not good enough, claims Chocolate Factory engineer
04 Aug 12:29 | 85
Security
UK data watchdog sees its approach to government health tech during COVID-19 outbreak as 'pragmatic'
Pandemic also behind fall in breaches, according to ICO annual reaport
04 Aug 08:28 | 14
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Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship
And said entirely with a straight face, too
03 Aug 20:15 | 38
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UK's Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting
Small steps could lead to bigger strides
03 Aug 14:20 | 11
Security
Shopping for execs: ID management biz Okta poaches Google's veep of engineering to run product dev activities
Head techie for Chocolate Factory's search ad biz departs Mountain View
03 Aug 11:19 | 6
Security
Research finds cyber-snoops working for 'Chinese state interests' lurking in SE Asian telco networks since 2017
Handy way to keep tabs on 'activists, politicians, business leaders, and more'
03 Aug 04:01 | 8
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Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more
02 Aug 18:58 | 25
Security
Nuisance call-blocking firm fined £170,000 for making almost 200,000 nuisance calls
Irony, thy name is Yes Consumer Solutions Ltd
02 Aug 15:12 | 42
Security
PwnedPiper vulns have potential to turn Swisslog's PTS hospital products into Swiss cheese, says Armis
Hardcoded passwords, unencrypted connections and unauthenticated firmware updates... patches released
02 Aug 11:36 | 8
Security
Huawei to America: You're not taking cyber-security seriously until you let China vouch for us
Slams Biden's Executive Order on improving infosec, calls for multilateral trust framework
02 Aug 06:15 | 25
Security
Zoom agrees to pay subscribers $25 to put its security SNAFUs behind it
Zoombombing class action offers US$85m in payments, meaning even free accounts get a few bucks
02 Aug 05:29 | 5
Security
Sysadmins: Why not simply verify there's no backdoor in every program you install, and thus avoid any cyber-drama?
Just 'validate third-party code before using it', says Euro body
31 Jul 07:14 | 69
Security
Here's 30 servers Russian intelligence uses to fling malware at the West, beams RiskIQ
Biden-Putin summit went well, then
30 Jul 16:24 | 21
