13 Jan

Euro-cops shut down crypto scam that bilked millions from unwitting punters

European cops arrested 15 suspected scammers and shut down a multi-country network of call centers selling fake cryptocurrency that law enforcement said stole upwards of

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13 Jan

Microsoft fumbles zero trust upgrade for some Asian customers

Microsoft has messed up a zero trust upgrade its service provider partners have been asked to implement for customers. The software giant has long given

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12 Jan

Lawyers slam SEC for ‘blatant fishing expedition’ after Exchange mega-attack

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued international law firm Covington & Burling for details about 298 of the biz’s clients whose information

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12 Jan

Law firm slams SEC for ‘blatant fishing expedition’ stemming from Hafnium attack

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued international law firm Covington & Burling for details about 298 of the firm’s clients whose information

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12 Jan

VALL-E AI can mimic a person’s voice from a three-second snippet

Microsoft researchers are working on a text-to-speech (TTS) model that can mimic a person’s voice – complete with emotion and intonation – after a mere

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12 Jan

US think tank says China would probably lose if it tries to invade Taiwan

Three years from now, hypothetically, China launches an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. It does not go well, according to a top Washington think tank report.

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11 Jan

Royal Mail, cops probe ‘cyber incident’ that’s knackered international mail

Royal Mail confirmed a “cyber incident” has disrupted its ability to send letters and packages abroad, and also caused some delays on post coming into

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11 Jan

AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing

GPT-3 language models are being abused to do much more than write college essays, according to WithSecure researchers. The security shop’s latest report [PDF] details

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11 Jan

Microsoft fixes Windows database connections it broke in November

Included in the usual tsunami of fixes Microsoft issued this week as part of Patch Tuesday was one that took care of a connectivity problem

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11 Jan

German cartel watchdog objects to the way Google processes user data

Google users don’t have enough choice over whether – and to what extent – they agree to “far-reaching processing of their data across services,” Germany’s

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11 Jan

Now you can legally repair your tech – sort of

A new law portends a future where (we hope) it will be easier for us all to repair, fix, upgrade, and just tinker with things

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11 Jan

Swiss Army’s Threema messaging app was full of holes – at least seven

A supposedly secure messaging app preferred by the Swiss government and army was infested with bugs – possibly for a long time – before an

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11 Jan

Health insurer Aflac blames US partner for leak of Japanese cancer policy info

Global insurer Aflac’s Japanese branch has revealed that personal data describing more than three million customers of its cancer insurance product has been leaked online.

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11 Jan

Privacy on the line: Boffins break VoLTE phone security

Boffins based in China and the UK have devised a telecom network attack that can expose call metadata during VoLTE/VoNR conversations. Voice over LTE (VoLTE)

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11 Jan

First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix

Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 98 security flaws in its first Patch Tuesday of 2023 including one that’s already been exploited and another listed as publicly

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10 Jan

Russian meddling in 2016 US presidential election was weak sauce

Russian disinformation didn’t materially affect the way people voted in the 2016 US presidential election, according to a research study published on Monday, though that

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10 Jan

How to track equipped cars via exploitable e-ink platemaker

California’s street-legal ink license plates only received a nod from the US government in October, but reverse engineers have already discovered vulnerabilities in the system

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10 Jan

California e-ink platemaker exploited to track equipped cars

California’s street-legal ink license plates only received a nod from the US government in October, but reverse engineers have already discovered vulnerabilities in the system

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