Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations Comment In April 1943, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when the US Air Force shot down the plane carrying him to Balalae Airfield in the Solomon Islands.... [...]
As local search engines stop providing results on crypto-keywords China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies has reached a new crescendo, with the nation’s Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday proclaiming it has arrested over 1000 people and shut down 170 gangs that provided crypto-linked money-laundering services.... [...]
Company also says large and well-funded IT department sorted recovery swiftly JBS Foods, one of the world’s largest meat producers, has revealed it handed over “the equivalent of $11 million” to resolve a ransomware infection that disrupted operations in Australia, the USA, and Canada.... [...]
Malware was too loose to have come from a Western nation, according to Sentinel Labs An advanced persistent threat that Russia found inside government systems was too crude to have been the work of a Western nation, says security researcher Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade of Sentinel Labs, before suggesting the …
Hundreds of arrests already in Oz, details of European and US ops to be revealed soon The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has revealed it was able to decrypt messages sent on a supposedly secure messaging app that was seeded into the criminal underworld and promoted as providing snoop-proof comms …
Down continues to be the new up NortonLifeLock, the company that offers the consumer products Broadcom didn’t want when it bought Symantec, has started to offer Ethereum mining as a feature of its Norton 360 security suite.... [...]
Unauthenticated remote code execution possible thanks to vSphere Client bug VMware has revealed a critical bug that can be exploited to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution in the very core of a virtualised system – vCenter Server.... [...]
Also steps into future by allowing plug to be pulled on 2G networks The Republic of Korea took two bold steps into the future on Tuesday, by announcing that the last of its 2G networks will go offline in June and that it will initiate large-scale adoption of communications …
It’s all about domestic efficiency, and if that helps China to become a bigger player then so be it A former governor of the People's Bank of China has given a speech in which he suggested that China's Digital Yuan is not intended to increase China's influence over …
While my SITA gently leaks, customers were unaware their credit card numbers had flown away India’s flag carrier, Air India, has admitted it fell foul of the data breach at aviation information services provider SITA, and that its disclosure comes five weeks after it was notified of the …
Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart Indonesia’s government has admitted to leaks of personal data from the agency that runs its national health insurance scheme... [...]
Oh what a feeling, and in the same week as automaker announced new production pauses Toyota has admitted to a pair of cyber-attacks.... [...]
Former Sun boss Scott McNealy offers interesting response Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of controversial research trove Sci-Hub, has claimed that Apple informed her it has handed over information about her account to the FBI.... [...]
Also puts brakes on data collection by carmakers China has signaled that ride-sharing companies can expect the same scrutiny as its web giants, and laid out regulations that will stop cars from collecting unnecessary data.... [...]
Testing dongle-driven ‘Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood’ and WebAuthn as alternative Poll Cloudflare has called on the world to “end this madness” by consigning Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAS) to the dustbin of history.... [...]
Online lending apps and more given fifteen days to ‘rectify’ behaviour China’s Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission has named 84 apps it says breach local privacy laws and given their developers 15 days to “rectify” their code.... [...]
No prizes for guessing why, as Colonial Pipeline outage stretches patience and looks like lasting a week South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Energy and Infrastructure has ordered a review of the cybersecurity preparedness of the nation’s energy infrastructure.... [...]
But won’t reveal who it wants banned from social media over less obvious disinformation As COVID-19 continues to ravage India, the nation’s government has told it populace that 5G signals have nothing to do with the spread of the virus – if only because no 5G networks operate …
Blames spam filters for brownout, warns fix could be 'disruptive' Trend Micro’s hosted email security product is experiencing a global brownout.... [...]
Colonial Pipeline says damage contained, some smaller lines already back, but has no timetable for resumption One of the USA’s largest oil pipelines has been shut by ransomware.... [...]
Oil transport by road allowed after Colonial Pipeline goes down, operator says recovery is under way but offers no recovery date One of the USA’s largest oil pipelines has been shut by ransomware, leading the nation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to issue a regional emergency declaration permitting …
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You know the drill: shake your head in disbelief, then figure out if patching will wipe out a weekend or be merely inconvenient Cisco has revealed a pair of critical bugs in its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure product.... [...]
Developers want to do this, says Google. Ummm... guys, you do remember the thousands of malware nightmares you’ve hosted and sold? Google has decided the time has come to require app developers to disclose the data their wares collect, and their security practices, in their Play Store listings …
Trio claim database queries can lead to remote code execution Black Hat Asia A trio of researchers at Palo Alto Networks has detailed vulnerabilities in the JET database engine, and demonstrated how those flaws can be exploited to ultimately execute malicious code on systems running Microsoft’s SQL Server …
By eight they should be telling you not to upload geo-tagged photos of them in school uniform Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum.... [...]