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DDoS and dingoes: Australia to bolster cyber-defences with 500 hackers amid China spat
Australia will hire 500 hackers as part of a AU$1.35bn (£754m, $925m) boost to protect the nation's networks from a wave of cyber attacks.…
Remember when we warned in February Apple will crack down on long-life HTTPS certs? It's happening: Chrome, Firefox ready to join in, too
From September 1, Apple software, from Safari to macOS to iOS, will reject new HTTPS and other SSL/TLS certificates that are valid for more than 398 days, plus or minus some caveats.…
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14m as BBC publishes 'dark web negotiations'
A California university which is dedicated solely to public health research has paid a $1.14m ransom to a criminal gang in the hopes of regaining access to its data.…
Yes, Prime Minister, rewrite the Computer Misuse Act: Brit infosec outfits urge reform
British infosec businesses are celebrating the 30th birthday of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 by writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging reform of the elderly cybercrime law.…
CyberX, CyberX, does whatever a CyberX does. Locks IoT, machines too, Microsoft got it so you will to
In Brief Redmond is bulking up the security around its AzureStack hardware-to-cloud bundle by acquiring infosec firm CyberX.…
Macs, iPhones, iPads to get encrypted DNS – how'd you like them Apples?
WWDC Apple this year will boldly go where its peers have gone before by implementing support for encrypted DNS in iOS and macOS.…
Let's roll the 3d6 dice on today's security drama: Ah, 15, that's LG allegedly hacked, source code stolen by Maze ransomware gang
Maze ransomware masterminds claim to have stolen source code from LG after hacking into the electronics giant.…
Tune in and watch live: Email encryption doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing deal
Webcast Leaked emails are the IT security mishap that just keeps on giving. From salacious tabloid headlines to lost elections to international security crises, a hacked or misfired email is the ultimate piece of first-hand evidence to light up a scandal, or ruin a reputation.…
UK police use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops' lawyer tells Court of Appeal
South Wales Police and the UK Home Office "fundamentally disagree" that automated facial recognition (AFR) software is as intrusive as collecting fingerprints or DNA, a barrister for the force told the Court of Appeal yesterday.…
When one open-source package riddled with vulns pulls in dozens of others, what's a dev to do?
Open-source security specialist Snyk has released a new survey combining data on vulnerabilities in available packages with responses from developers and DevOps teams about how they handle the challenge this poses.…
Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Comcast to handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-using subscribers
Comcast has agreed to be the first home broadband internet provider to handle secure DNS-over-HTTPS queries for Firefox browser users in the US, Mozilla has announced.…
US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant
Prosecutors in the US have upgraded their case against Julian Assange with a second superseding indictment claiming he sought out the services of a notorious hacker who, unbeknownst to the WikiLeaks boss, was secretly working with the Feds.…
Honeypot behind sold-off IP subnet shows Cyberbunker biz hosted all kinds of filth, says SANS Institute
Web traffic to the servers of the notorious Dutch-German Cyberbunker hosting biz was filled with all kinds of badness, including apparent botnet command-and-control and denial-of-service traffic, says SANS Institute.…
There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught
Akamai reckons it blocked what may be the largest distributed denial-of-service attack ever, in terms of packets per second.…
After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
A trio of Republican senators on Tuesday proposed legislation that requires service providers and device makers in America to help the Feds bypass encryption when presented with a court-issued warrant.…
Ransomware crims to sell off 'scandalous' files swiped from Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Puff Daddy's legal eagles
Ransomware criminals claiming to have siphoned confidential docs on Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, and Lebron James from an American law firm are threatening to auction off the info.…
Laws on police facial recognition aren't tough enough, UK data watchdog barrister tells Court of Appeal
A top judge told a barrister for the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) today that his legal arguments against police facial-recognition technology face "a great difficulty" as he wondered whether they were even relevant to the case.…
Former UK Labour deputy leader wants to know how the NHS's contact-tracing app will ensure user privacy
Harriet Harman MP, chair of Britain's Commons Human Rights Committee, has written to UK health secretary Matt Hancock seeking clarity on privacy aspects of the government's latest coronavirus contact-tracing app.…
Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay
The Maze ransomware gang has threatened to publish information stolen from an American firm that overhauls airliners and installs flight control software upgrades – because its victim refused to pay a demanded ransom.…
Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans
Puny humans still think they're superior to AI when it comes to infosec – and a significant number still don't venture into meatspace or get enough sunlight.…
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