08 Sep

AT&T Alien Labs warns of ‘zero or low detection’ for TeamTNT’s latest malware bundle

AT&T’s Alien Labs security division has sounded the alarm on a malware campaign from TeamTNT which, it claims, has gone almost entirely undetected by anti-virus

Author rabih
08 Sep

Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we’re still burning out

The COVID-19 pandemic was good for business, according to British infosec workers – although half of them still say they feel burnt out amid the

Author rabih
08 Sep

Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it’s 1999

Some vulnerabilities remain unreported for the longest time. The 12-year-old Dell SupportAssist remote code execution (RCE) flaw – which was finally unearthed earlier this year

Author rabih
08 Sep

Ransomware attacks are inevitable. Paying the ransom isn’t

Sponsored Ransomware attacks have accelerated at a feverish pace in the last year leaving small businesses, large enterprises, and government agencies scrambling to protect the

Author rabih
07 Sep

Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft

In an advisory issued on Tuesday, Microsoft said some of its users were targeted by poisoned Office documents that exploit an unpatched flaw to hijack

Author rabih
07 Sep

Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes … if you forward them to the abuse dept

Facebook’s WhatsApp states its messages are protected by the Signal encryption protocol. A report published today by investigative non-profit ProPublica contends that WhatsApp communication is

Author rabih
07 Sep

Remote Browser Isolation: The Next Great Security Technology is Finally Attainable

Security professionals and technologists old enough to remember renting movies at Blockbuster on Friday nights likely also remember a time when the internet was a

Author rabih
07 Sep

British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats

Cookies are on the menu today for the G7 as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) proposes to the group of leading global economies that

Author rabih
07 Sep

UK data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats

Cookies are on the menu today for the G7 as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) proposes to the group of leading global economies that

Author rabih
07 Sep

ProtonMail deletes ‘we don’t log your IP’ boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after responding to a legal request to hand over a user’s IP address and

Author rabih
07 Sep

Guntrader breach perp: I don’t think it’s a crime to dump 111k people’s details online in Google Earth format

The person who reformatted the Guntrader hack data as a Google Earth-compatible CSV has said they are prepared to go to prison – while denying

Author rabih
07 Sep

Glasgow firm fined £150k after half a million nuisance calls, spoofing phone number, using false trading names

A Glasgow-based company is facing a £150,000 penalty handed down by the UK’s data watchdog for making more than half a million nuisance calls about

Author rabih
06 Sep

Jenkins struck by ‘Confluenza’ as US Cyber Command warns Atlassian flaw ‘cannot wait’

The Jenkins team issued a reminder over the weekend that one should keep one’s systems patched as it found itself with a compromised Confluence service.

Author rabih
06 Sep

When the bits hit the fan: What to do when ransomware strikes

Feature When I first became a company chief techie, the finance director patronisingly explained the basic asymmetry of prevention vs cure. Spending money on assets

Author rabih
06 Sep

Indonesian President’s COVID jab cert leaks – authorities argue that’s perfectly reasonable

Indonesian authorities have admitted that the COVID-19 vaccination certificate of the nation’s President has circulated online and tried to explain that it’s an indication of

Author rabih
04 Sep

Norwegian student tracks Bluetooth headset wearers by wardriving around Oslo on a bicycle

A Norwegian student who went wardriving around Oslo on a pushbike has discovered that several popular models of Bluetooth headphones don’t implement MAC address randomisation

Author rabih
03 Sep

Apple stalls CSAM auto-scan on devices after ‘feedback’ from everyone on Earth

Apple on Friday said it intends to delay the introduction of its plan to commandeer customers’ own devices to scan their iCloud-bound photos for illegal

Author rabih
03 Sep

How Fraudsters Are Fooling Users With This Proof of Vaccination Phishing Scam

You open your laptop and see an email from a healthcare organization that you don’t recognize. The subject line reads “URGENT – PROOF OF VACCINATION NEEDED.” Impulsively, you

Author rabih
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