Just in case you travel back in time to 1998 The GEA/1 encryption algorithm used by GPRS phones in the 1990s was seemingly designed to be weaker than it appears to allow eavesdropping, according to European researchers.... [...]
Plus: Alleged Trickbot developer cuffed by US agents In brief The outgoing head of Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad has suggested that Stuxnet wasn't the only spanner in the works his agency put into Iran's nuclear programme.... [...]
Adobe, Intel, SAP, Android emit vulnerability fixes, too Patch Tuesday Microsoft's traditional Patch Tuesday saw the software giant release fixes for 50 flaws, and a reminder to apply updates as soon as possible because six of them are being exploited in the wild by miscreants.... [...]
From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all The FBI has revealed how it managed to hoodwink the criminal underworld with its secretly backdoored AN0M encrypted chat app, leading to hundreds of arrests, the seizure of 32 tons of drugs, 250 …
All thanks to FBI that somehow had wallet's private key The US Department of Justice on Monday said it has recovered 63.7 Bitcoins, right now worth $2.1m and falling, of the 75 or so BTC the Colonial Pipeline operators paid the ransomware miscreants who infected the fuel …
Plus: FBI boss says ransomware is terrorism 2.0, and more In brief Plans by the German government to allow the police to deploy malware on any target's devices, and force the tech world to help them, has run into some opposition, funnily enough.... [...]
Gonna need a little Mo security over here US House Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL) seemingly revealed his Gmail password and a PIN in a Sunday rage tweet about a lawsuit regarding the January 6 insurrection attempt.... [...]
Plus: More Rowhammer research, Feds warn of Fortinet attacks, etc In brief The creator of the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) website, which alerts you if it turns out your credentials have been swiped and leaked from an account database, has open sourced the project's internals.... [...]
24 out of 26 tools vulnerable – with bonus JavaScript attack for Adobe A pair of techniques to surreptitiously alter the content of certified PDFs have been detailed by researchers in Germany.... [...]
Bug can also be abused to record audio and video, access files – and iOS, iPadOS updated, too Apple has patched a hole in macOS that has been exploited by malware to secretly take screenshots on victims' Macs.... [...]
Plus: Stalkerware even more scummy and ExifTool needs patching In brief CNA Finaincial, the US insurance conglomerate, has apparently paid $40m to ransomware operators to gets its files back.... [...]
Plus: Biden's order on security, US govt acquiring data on citizens, and more In brief Unlucky owners of Eufycam security cameras were horrified earlier today when they opened their app for the equipment and saw video streams from strangers' homes instead of their own.... [...]
Plus: Student cripples EU bio lab and IRS goes after cryptocurrency In brief The United States' Department of Defense has opened up all of its publicly facing systems and apps to investigation under a bug bounty program.... [...]
Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets built since 2009 and running Windows can be exploited to grant rogue users and malware system-administrator-level access to the computers. We're told this amounts of hundreds of millions of machines that …
Plus: Micro-op CPU caches abused to leak data, and more In Brief Apple on Monday patched security flaws in its software said to have been exploited in the wild by miscreants to hijack gear.... [...]
Plus: America creates task force to tackle ransomware crims In Brief The Homebrew package manager for macOS and Linux has fixed an issue that could have been exploited by miscreants to run malicious code on people's computers.... [...]
DEF CON hails 'an icon in all the positive ways' Obit Celebrated information security researcher Dan Kaminsky, known not just for his technical ability but also for his compassion and support for those in his industry, has died. He was 42.... [...]
Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait Apple's AirDrop has a couple of potentially annoying privacy weaknesses that Cupertino is so far refusing to address even though a solution has been offered.... [...]
Plus Pwn2Own faces fire and update Chrome immediately In Brief The former systems administrator for the FIN7 card-slurping gang has been sentenced to 10 years in a US prison.... [...]
Very 2021 to have AI bots fight in simulated networks for our entertainment (and science) Microsoft has open-sourced software that pits machine-learning-powered network intruders against automated defenders inside virtual networks.... [...]
Very 2021 to have AI bots fight in simulated networks for our entertainment (and science) Microsoft has open-sourced software that pits machine-learning-powered network intruders against automated defenders inside virtual networks.... [...]
Euro cops take $1.65bn of blow off the streets after poring over messages The Belgian plod says it seized 27.64 tons of cocaine worth €1.4bn (£1.2bn, $1.65bn) from shipments into Antwerp in the past six weeks after defeating the encryption in the Sky ECC …
Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools' Day, Redmond has said.... [...]
Plus: Did Google expose a Western hacking op? Who cares? You're safer In brief Apple has issued critical security patches for all supported phones, fondleslabs, and watches after being alerted to multiple possible intrusions by Google.... [...]
Plus: Exchange and SolarWinds autopatch tools and shocking news! In Brief Graham Ivan Clark, part of the crew that hijacked around 130 high-profile Twitter accounts and used them to collect cryptocurrency, has been sentenced to three years in prison for his part in the scam.... [...]