Brit spymaster calls for renewed attention to UK tech capabilities – and expanded role for his agency The director of the UK's signals intelligence agency has delivered a speech in which he contemplated power in the digital age, observing that "China's size and technological weight means that it has the …
Dot-org has been offline for a month, says ‘people who have ill intentions’ behind crack A “scanlation” website for Manga has admitted that its members credentials have been stolen and are now being shared online.... [...]
China already growing even faster than 13% regional acceleration Asian businesses are set for a security spending spree, according to analyst firm IDC.... [...]
Threatens to release designs and data if not paid. But dangles 2005-vintage ThinkPad as proof it's serious An entity claiming to represent ransomware gang REvil says it has accessed "large quantities of confidential drawings and gigabytes of personal data" from Quanta Computer Incorporated, a Taiwanese manufacturer that builds laptops …
200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost Japan has accused a member of the Chinese Communist Party of conducting cyber-attacks on its space agency and 200 other local entities.... [...]
Taskforce and two forums to consider Central Bank Digital Currency The Bank of England and HM Treasury have formed a Taskforce to "coordinate the exploration of a potential UK Central Bank Digital Currency" (CBDC).... [...]
To stop protests by far-right party that wants France’s ambassador expelled Pakistan shut down several social networks within its borders on Friday but lifted the ban after around four hours.... [...]
Evidence is thin, but Natanz enrichment facility is offline Iran has admitted that one of its nuclear facilities went offline over the weekend, and a single report claiming Israeli cyber-weapons were the cause has been widely accepted as a credible explanation for the incident.... [...]
'Strategic Competition Act' calls for appointment of a new ambassador-at-large for tech America's plan to compete with China includes a call for the land of the free to dominate tech standards bodies, especially for 5G, and to appoint an ambassador level official to lead a new “Technology Partnership Office …
Working to improve 'cyberwalls', but for now swift recovery is main strategy Video The highest-ranked officer in India’s armed forces has admitted that China has cyber-war capabilities that can overwhelm his nation’s defenses and suggested that only cross-forces collaboration will get India to parity with its giant …
Membership data row ascends to desk of California attorney-general The Atheist Alliance International, an organisation that works to demystify atheism and advocate for secular governance, has taken legal action it hopes will prove that members’ personal data does not remain in the possession of the rival International Association of …
Says customer data wasn't touched, doesn't say much about being rooted Wi-Fi kit-slinger Ubiquiti has suggested the attacker that accessed some of its cloud-hosted systems in January 2021 may have made off with source code and employee logins, not the customer data it initially warned could be in peril …
Talk about living in hope Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that.... [...]
Pirate papers site is best blocked on grounds it threatens university security The City of London Police, which has responsibility for intellectual property crime across the UK, has warned universities and scientists not to use “open science” site Sci-Hub and called for it to be blocked by universities.... [...]
Till Kottmann may also have helped with Verkada vid-cam exploit and other cracks, now accused of fraud on top of merry pranking The US Department of Justice says a grand jury has indicted Swiss security provocateur Till Kottmann over multiple exploits and attempts at fraud, and authorities have quickly …
Fake Huawei and Flash sites helped steal info about 5G tech Security vendor McAfee has detected an attack it believes was likely aimed at telecoms companies in the hope of stealing information related to 5G networks.... [...]
Security precautions held up, but Putin himself signed off on efforts to scare the public with claims of voting system compromise The USA’s Office of National Intelligence today released its previously classified assessment of “Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections” and found “some successful compromises of …
'Quad' group wants alternatives to China. Also freedom and governance that reflects shared values The first “Quad summit” of leaders from Australia, India, Japan, and the USA has announced the group will create a “Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group”.... [...]
Remote code execution, denial of service, API abuse possible. Meanwhile, FBI pegs China for Exchange hacks Security and automation vendor F5 has warned of seven patch-ASAP-grade vulnerabilities in its Big-IP network security and traffic-grooming products, plus another 14 vulns worth fixing.... [...]
Tardiness by stakeholders, rather than over-optimistic blockheads, blamed India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority has paused the rollout of a national SMS “scrubbing” service and blamed business for the delay.... [...]
Don’t panic: Fewer than 0.001% of sessions compromised through flaw that couldn’t be maliciously triggered If you visit GitHub today you’ll be asked to authenticate anew because the code collaboration locker has squished a bug that sometimes “misrouted a user’s session to the browser …
Take that, rootkits and other low-level nasties - if they take a crack at fresh VMs, on certain instance types under a handful of OSes Microsoft has revealed that its Azure IaaS platform now offers free a virtual trusted platform module.... [...]
Tech visa reform pledged, alongside diplomacy to write new rules for tech The Biden administration has named China as the most threatening nation the United States faces, on grounds that it can combine its technological and other capabilities like no other.... [...]
And so can you, because its vote-for-code tools are now on GitHub POLL Google has revealed that its internal anti-malware tools include a “social voting” scheme that lets staff vouch for code they want to install won’t do any damage.... [...]
Patch ASAP: Holes used to raid top-tier targets and stash info in Kim Dotcom's old cloud file locker Microsoft says Beijing-backed hackers are exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server to steal data from US-based defense contractors, law firms, and infectious disease researchers.... [...]