15 May

Hackers remotely turn up the voltage on motherboards to brick servers

Presenting at Black Hat Asia 2023, an infosec researcher detailed how remote updates can be exploited to modify voltage on a Supermicro motherboard and remotely

Author rabih
15 May

Where Did I Leave My Phone?” Protecting Your Phone from Loss and Theft.

Maybe you know that sinking feeling all too well. “Where did I leave my phone?”  The minutes pass as you search around the house, then

Author rabih
15 May

Is My Child Being Cyberbullied Or Is It Just Banter?

If you were to ask me what I consider to be the most attractive attribute in a person, it would be kindness but only closely

Author rabih
15 May

No more macros? No problem, say miscreants, we’ll adapt

Microsoft’s decision to block internet-sourced macros by default last year is forcing attackers to find new and creative ways to compromise systems and deliver malware,

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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

Author rabih
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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