How about right now? Right now is good The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says it's time to retire Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1), a 27-year-old weak algorithm used in security applications.... [...]
Not Amazon's fault buckets are exposed, but the loaded shotgun and your foot are all there ready and waiting Amazon wants you to know that it's not to blame for the data you've exposed though its cloud storage service. AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) is, after all, simple.... [...]
And remember CSAM scanning plan? Forget that was ever a thing Apple says it will provide end-to-end encryption for most iCloud services, having abandoned its previously announced – and then quietly shelved – plan to check the legality of on-device photos prior to cloud synchronization.... [...]
You don't have to be a coder to cut off the juice when blunt tools are around Officials in Moore County, North Carolina, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after gunfire damaged an electrical substation and left 45,000 homes and businesses without power in near freezing temperatures …
'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence' In Palmdale, California on Friday, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden revealed a US Air Force warplane that had only been shown in artist renderings and is supposed to be seldom seen, the B-21 Raider.... [...]
Meanwhile NSO faces new lawsuit over Pegasus flying onto journalists' phones Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Wednesday that its researchers discovered commercial spyware called Heliconia that's designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox browsers as well as Microsoft Defender security software.... [...]
Meanwhile NSO faces new lawsuit over Pegasus flying onto journalists' phones Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said on Wednesday that its researchers discovered commercial spyware called Heliconia that's designed to exploit vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox browsers as well as Microsoft Defender security software.... [...]
Employee management tech raises eyebrows in the Big Apple Private security firms in New York City have co-opted public resources – specifically trees – to track their guards as they make their rounds.... [...]
Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out Somewhere between 73 and 81 percent of retail Bitcoin buyers are likely to be into the negative on their investment, according to research published Monday by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).... [...]
Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, is being held in the Netherlands while he awaits extradition to America on cybercrime charges, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.... [...]
Beijing also sought to recruit academics and officials in America, and more claimed American prosecutors on Monday accused 13 people of committing espionage-linked crimes in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.... [...]
SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software SafeBreach Labs says it has detected a novel fully undetectable (FUD) PowerShell backdoor, which calls into question the accuracy of threat naming.... [...]
RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Cyber-researchers suggest ways to potentially defeat it An internet security mechanism called Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), intended to safeguard the routing of data traffic, can be broken.... [...]
RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Here's how it could be subverted – in theory An internet security mechanism called Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), intended to safeguard the routing of data traffic, can be broken.... [...]
RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Instead, here's how it could be subverted An internet security mechanism called Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), intended to safeguard the routing of data traffic, is broken, according to security experts from Germany's ATHENE, the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity.... [...]
How's your day going? Cryptocurrency exchange Binance temporarily halted its blockchain network on Thursday in response to a cyberattack that led to the theft of two million BNB tokens, notionally exchangeable for $566 million in fiat currency.... [...]
Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief security officer, has been found guilty of illegally covering up the theft of Uber drivers and customers' personal information.... [...]
Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief security officer, has been found guilty of illegally covering up the theft of Uber drivers and customers' personal information.... [...]
Cops and Feds get easier info sharing, Britain benefits most The Data Access Agreement (DAA), by which the US and UK have agreed how one country can respond to lawful data demands from police and investigators in the other, took effect on Monday.... [...]
Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password' For almost a decade, the US Central Intelligence Agency communicated with informants abroad using a network of websites with hidden communications capabilities.... [...]
You take the green pill, you'll spend six hours in a 'don't roll your own crypto' debate Four security researchers have identified five cryptographic vulnerabilities in code libraries that can be exploited to undermine Matrix encrypted chat clients. This includes impersonating users and sending messages as them.... [...]
Oh cool, a 5,500-day security hole At least 350,000 open source projects are believed to be potentially vulnerable to exploitation via a Python module flaw that has remained unfixed for 15 years.... [...]
'Indiscriminate' preemptive harvesting of personal info a big no-no. What a novel concept On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued rulings that limit indiscriminate data retention in France and Germany.... [...]
So is that three or four stars? Take-Two Interactive confirmed on Monday that its Rockstar Games subsidiary has been compromised and confidential data for Grand Theft Auto 6 has been stolen.... [...]
About time someone shined some light onto this Boffins at the University of Michigan in the US and Zhejiang University in China want to highlight how bespectacled video conferencing participants are inadvertently revealing sensitive on-screen information via reflections in their eyeglasses.... [...]