Also advised on how smart contracts could help DPRK in US nuke talks A US citizen has admitted to helping the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to establish cryptocurrency capabilities and faces up to 20 years jail for his actions.... [...]
Tokyo's new cyber-security policy names China, Russia, North Korea as sources of increasing threat India and Japan have each flexed their cyber-defence muscles in ways that China can't miss.... [...]
USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more The Quad group of nations – the USA, India, Australia, and Japan – has announced several joint initiatives to share technology and spur its development, among them a plan to …
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is a bit miffed its 'Don't attack the internet core' norm is misunderstood The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) is worried its guidance on preventing the internet and all it connects becoming a casualty of war is being misinterpreted …
Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too Apple has warned iPhone and Mac users that it's aware of a zero-day bug that's being actively exploited.... [...]
File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server VMware has disclosed a critical bug in its flagship vSphere and vCenter products and urged users to drop everything and patch it. The virtualization giant also offered a workaround.... [...]
And added a bug bounty program to detect any holes in its 'youth mode' Douyin, the Chinese app known as TikTok outside the Middle Kingdom, has imposed limits on usage time for kids.... [...]
Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself Microsoft Azure users running Linux VMs in the IT giant's Azure cloud need to take action to protect themselves against the four "OMIGOD" bugs in the …
Will build nuke-powered subs together and share cyber, AI, quantum and mysterious 'undersea capabilities' tech Australia, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom have signed a new defence and technology-sharing pact.... [...]
No data went awry, Cosmos DB had a similar bug just two weeks ago Microsoft today revealed it fixed a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances services that could have been exploited by a malicious user "to access other customers' information."... [...]
It's not as if politicians' birthdays aren't well known, and they get jabbed on live TV Indonesian authorities have admitted that the COVID-19 vaccination certificate of the nation's President has circulated online and tried to explain that it's an indication of admirable transparency, rather than lamentable security.... [...]
Someone didn't secure an Elasticsearch database, researchers allege Indonesia's Ministry of Communications and Informatics is investigating a leak of over a million records from the nation's COVID-19 quarantine management app.... [...]
Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months Infosec outfit Wiz has revealed that Microsoft’s flagship Azure database Cosmos DB could have been exploited to grant any Azure user full admin access – including the ability to read, write, and delete data – to any Cosmos DB …
After White House summit, AWS promises MFA tokens, Google and Microsoft spray money, IBM 'announces' snapshots against ransomware US President Joe Biden staged a cyber security summit at the White House, and it's produced quick results in the form of big tech making vague promises about stuff they think …
9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication Atlassian has warned users of its Confluence Server that they need to patch the product to remedy a Critical-rated flaw.... [...]
Bright denies all in this odd tale of a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium Updated Swedish digital rights organisation Qurium has alleged that an Israeli company called Bright Data has helped the government of the Philippines to DDOS …
Then published its successor and claimed that was its debut effort Facebook has revealed a report that shows the most-shared link on the platform in the first three months of 2021 described questionable interpretation of a death attributed to a COVID-19 vaccination – but only did so after publishing a …
Local reports suggest Microsoft Hyper-V crack was the cause, as rumours swirl of data leak Pakistan's Federal Board of Revenue – the nation's tax office – has experienced a lengthy outage after a migration project went bad, perhaps as the result of a cyber-attack.... [...]
Suggests the world to sort out a ban to preserve human rights, issues sternly worded 'Please Explain' to Israel The United Nations has called for a moratorium on the sale of "life threatening" surveillance technology and singled out the NSO Group and Israel for criticism.... [...]
Hands-off driving detectors required, over-the-air updates to be strictly regulated China has drafted new rules required of its autonomous and networked vehicle builders.... [...]
FireEye says Israeli defense agencies were alert to compromises as China works to protect Belt and Road investments Security vendor FireEye says it has spotted a Chinese espionage group that successfully compromised targets within Israel, and that trying to make its efforts look like the work of Iranian actors …
$8B deal will create smallbiz and consumer security monster The discussions between security vendors NortonLifelock and Avast that The Register reported had reached an advanced stage in July have proved fruitful, to the tune of more than $8 billion.... [...]
RDP-enabled instances attacked, perhaps via Iran and China, then use Telegram desktop client for command and control Data analysis firm Splunk says it's found a resurgence of the Crypto botnet – malware that attacks virtual servers running Windows Server inside Amazon Web Services.... [...]
Edge is getting a 'Super Duper Security Mode' to test the idea. Yes, that is the actual name Microsoft is conducting an experiment it hopes will improve browser security – by making its Edge offering worse at running JavaScript... [...]
Players in ‘Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative’ include Microsoft, AWS, and Google The United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced the "standup" of a body called the "Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative" (JCDC) that it hopes will spark ideas for new and improved national responses against electronic threats …