15 May

An important system on project [REDACTED] was all [REDACTED] up

Welcome once again to the horrors of Monday, dear reader. But fear not – The Register is here to cushion the blow of the working

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15 May

Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up

Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often

Author rabih
15 May

Arm acknowledges side-channel attack but denies Cortex-M is crocked

Black Hat Asia Arm issued a statement last Friday declaring that a successful side attack on its TrustZone-enabled Cortex-M based systems was “not a failure

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15 May

Toyota’s bungling of customer privacy is becoming a pattern

in brief Japanese automaker Toyota has admitted yet again to mishandling customer data – this time saying it exposed information on more than two million

Author rabih
13 May

‘Top three Balkans drug kingpins’ arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

European police arrested three people in Belgrade described as “the biggest” drug lords in the Balkans in what cops are chalking up to another win

Author rabih
12 May

Why Microsoft just patched a patch that squashed an under-attack Outlook bug

Microsoft in March fixed an interesting security hole in Outlook that was exploited by miscreants to leak victims’ Windows credentials. This week the IT giant

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12 May

Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years for stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses

Nickolas Sharp has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $1.6 million to his now-former employer Ubiquiti – after stealing

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12 May

Ex-Ubiquiti dev jailed for 6 years after stealing internal corp data, extorting bosses

Nickolas Sharp has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $1.6 million to his former employer Ubiquiti – after stealing

Author rabih
12 May

Independent Lab Tests Show that McAfee Stops Malware Dead in Its Tracks

Concerned about ransomware? McAfee stops it dead in its tracks.  Newly published findings from the independent labs at AV-TEST show that McAfee’s antivirus technology performs

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12 May

Britain’s largest private pension scheme reveals scale of Capita break-in

Universities Superannuation Scheme, the UK’s largest private pension provider, says Capita has warned that details of almost half a million members were held on servers

Author rabih
12 May

How to Avoid Phishing Attacks on Your Smartphones and Computers

Ping, it’s a scammer!  The sound of an incoming email, text, or direct message has a way of getting your attention, so you take a

Author rabih
12 May

Activists gatecrash Capita’s AGM to protest GPS tracking contract

We hear Privacy International and a few other campaign groups set up camp outside Capita’s AGM in London yesterday protesting Capita’s involvement as an outsourcer

Author rabih
12 May

UK cops score legal win in EncroChat snooping op

The UK’s National Crime Agency has partially won an important legal battle in a case that challenged the warrants used to obtain messages from cyber

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12 May

India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm

India’s IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar will ask WhatsApp to explain what’s up, after the Meta-owned messaging service experienced a dramatic increase in spam calls. India

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11 May

Let white-hat hackers stick a probe in those voting machines, say senators

US voting machines would undergo deeper examination for computer security holes under proposed bipartisan legislation. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) this week

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11 May

Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

Black Hat Asia Threat groups have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices have even been shipped from their manufacturers, according

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11 May

ENISA leans into EU-based clouds with draft cybersecurity label

Cloud services providers that aren’t based in Europe — like the Big Three — may have to team up with a cloud that is operated and

Author rabih
11 May

How to Protect Your Family’s Privacy on Twitter: A Guide for Parents and Kids

It’s no secret that when it comes to social networks, teen preferences can change dramatically from year to year. That holds with Twitter. Even though

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