28 Jan

Internet Society condemns UK’s Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using ‘think of the children’ tactic

Britain’s controversial Online Safety Bill will leave Britons more exposed to internet harms than ever before, the Internet Society has said, while data from other

Author rabih
28 Jan

Help Celebrate Data Privacy Week & NIST Privacy Framework’s 2nd Birthday!

Credit: Shutterstock/Rawpixel.com Today’s blog celebrates Data Privacy Week, an international awareness initiative led by the National Cyber Security Alliance to help spread awareness about online

Author rabih
28 Jan

Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins

Silk could become a means of authentication and unbreakable encryption, according to South Korean boffins. Silk can take on this role, as explained in Nature

Author rabih
28 Jan

Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out

Intel will have to defend itself against claims that the semiconductor goliath knew its microprocessors were defective and failed to tell customers. On Wednesday, Judge

Author rabih
27 Jan

US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans

In brief A US Department of Defense staffer with top-secret clearance stole the identities of dozens of people from a work SharePoint system to apply

Author rabih
27 Jan

US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work SharePoint system to apply for $250k in loans

In brief A US Department of Defense staffer with top-secret clearance stole the identities of dozens of people from a work IT system to fraudulently

Author rabih
27 Jan

Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto

QNAP has urged NAS users to act “immediately” to install its latest updates and enable security protections after warning that product-specific ransomware called Deadbolt is

Author rabih
27 Jan

Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC’s 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers’ locations

Exclusive Britain’s tax collection agency asked a contractor to use the SS7 mobile phone signalling protocol that would make available location data of alleged tax

Author rabih
27 Jan

Indonesia bars financial institutions from offering crypto services

Another week, another big economy restricting cryptocurrency. This time Indonesia has barred financial services firms from offering bit-buck-related services to their customers. In the tweet

Author rabih
27 Jan

China orders web operators to spring clean its entire internet

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has shared its spring-cleaning plans with the world – and suggested it’s time to make the Middle Kingdom’s web

Author rabih
26 Jan

Alert: Let’s Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days

Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit organization that helps people obtain free SSL/TLS certificates for websites, plans to revoke a non-trivial number of its certs on Friday

Author rabih
26 Jan

Passwords are Like Toothbrushes – Not to Be Shared!!

Sometimes, I feel that my brain is full! We are all bombarded with information on so many fronts and quite frankly, I often feel like

Author rabih
26 Jan

Infosec big dogs break out the bubbly over UK government’s latest cyber strategy emission

Big industry players have praised the latest cybersecurity strategy emitted by the British government, rubbing their hands with glee at its promises of lucrative public

Author rabih
26 Jan

Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k

A security bod scored a $100,500 bug bounty from Apple after discovering a vulnerability in Safari on macOS that could have been exploited by a

Author rabih
26 Jan

Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user

Linux vendors on Tuesday issued patches for a memory corruption vulnerability in a component called polkit that allows an unprivileged logged-in user to gain full

Author rabih
25 Jan

Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers

Anti-malware outfit Sophos has weighed in on Log4Shell, saying that the galvanization of the IT world to avert disaster would be familiar to those who

Author rabih
25 Jan

Watering hole deploys new macOS malware, DazzleSpy, in Asia

Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station website compromised to serve a Safari exploit that installed cyberespionage malware on site visitors’ Macs On November 11th, Google TAG

Author rabih
25 Jan

UK government opens consultation on medic-style register for Brit infosec pros

Frustrated at lack of activity from the “standard setting” UK Cyber Security Council, the government wants to pass new laws making it into the statutory

Author rabih
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