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Morrisons is to blame for 100k payroll theft and leak, say 9,000 workers
"Cutting to the chase, it's not a case where the office cleaner finds a thumb drive, picks it up and takes the opportunity to make some use of it," barrister Jonathan Barnes told the Supreme Court as he urged judges to dismiss Morrisons' appeal against liability for its 2014 payroll data breach.…
Surveillance kit slinger accused of slapping 'Made in America' on Chinese gear, selling it to the US government
Staff were cuffed in a police raid on Thursday at the offices of US surveillance equipment vendor Aventura Technologies. The workers are now facing criminal charges for allegedly passing off Chinese-made gear as stuff built in America, and selling it to Uncle Sam and its military.…
What do you get when you allegedly mix Wireshark, a gumshoe child molester, and a court PC? A judge facing hacking charges
A judge in the US state of Georgia is facing hacking charges after she allegedly hired private investigators to look into what she believed was a spyware infection on her office computer.…
This may shock you but Adobe is shipping insecure software. No, it's not Flash this time. Nope, not Acrobat, either
It has been revealed that Adobe's Experience Platform mobile SDKs, used to create apps that interact with the company's cloud services, until recently contained sample configuration files that created insecure default settings.…
Communication, communication – and politics: Iowa saga of cuffed infosec pros reveals pentest pitfalls
Analysis It has been six weeks since Coalfire's Gary Demercurio and Justin Wynn were arrested in Dallas County, Iowa, while performing a paid-for security penetration test at a courthouse. Despite everyone acknowledging there was no foul play, the pair still face criminal charges. They deny any wrongdoing.…
Morrisons tells top court it's not liable for staffer who nicked payroll data of 100,000 employees
Brit supermarket Morrisons is arguing in the Supreme Court that it shouldn't be held vicariously liable for the actions of a rogue employee who stole and leaked the company's payroll.…
We're almost into the third decade of the 21st century and we're still grading security bugs out of 10 like kids. Why?
Disclosure The way we rate the severity of computer security vulnerabilities and bugs needs to change if people and businesses want to be better protected from malware and cyber-crime.…
Microsoft crams Office 365 docs into Edge-style sandboxes to thwart malware infections
Ignite Amid the flood of news from Microsoft's Ignite conference in Florida this week, Redmond dropped word of several new features and additions to its cloud services aimed at protecting user data.…
Ex-Twitter staff charged with spying for Saudi royals: Duo accused of leaking account records, including those of critics
Two now-ex Twitter employees have been charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia – after they allegedly leaked internal records for accounts linked to critics of the Saudi royal family, including the assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, while working for the social network.…
Google's joins Gang of Four to guard Play Store apps from malware, and maybe not fail so much
Google, after more than a decade of dealing with Android malware, has formed an alliance with three security companies to help it defend its mobile platform.…
NSA to Congress: Our spy programs don’t work, aren’t used, or have gone wrong – now can you permanently reauthorize them?
The NSA was unable to give a single example of how one of its most controversial spying programs has been useful in the fight against terrorism in a Congressional hearing on Wednesday morning.…
Trend Micro: Our super-duper security software will keep you safe from everyone – except our staff who go rogue
Trend Micro today revealed one of its staff went rogue and illegally sold the personal information of roughly 120,000 of its customers.…
Controversies aren't Boeing away for aircraft maker amid claims of faulty oxygen systems and wobbling wings
Ailing Boeing has been hit with a double whammy of recent controversies alleging safety flaws with its 737 NG (not the fatally flawed Max) and the 787 Dreamliner.…
Leeds IT bloke pleads guilty to hacking Jet2 CEO's email account
Exclusive A man has pleaded guilty to hacking low-cost airline Jet2, including an attempt to compromise the CEO's email account.…
Before you high-five yourselves for setting up that bug bounty, you've got the staff in place to actually deal with security, right?
Disclosure Bug-bounty pioneer Katie Moussouris has urged companies to hire the necessary staff to handle vulnerability disclosures before diving headlong into handing out rewards.…
'Peregrine falcon'-style drone swarms could help defend UK against Gatwick copycat attacks
The British government has funded 18 anti-drone projects as part of its £2m push to stop a repeat of the Gatwick drone fiasco of 2018 – including a friendly drone swarm that will employ "peregrine falcon attack strategies" to down errant unmanned flying things.…
Concerns raised over privacy and security of UK Home Office's £842m biometrics programme
Updated An independent ethical advice group has raised concerns about the UK Home Office's £842m Biometrics programme, which will store millions of people's highly sensitive biometric data, due to go live next year.…
Three UK does it again: Random folk on network website are still seeing others' account data
British telco Three UK has once again let random people viewing its homepage view its customers' account details as if they were logged in, exposing personal and billing data to casual browsing.…
PSA: Turning off silent macros in Office for Mac leaves users wide open to silent macro attacks
A security hole in Office for Mac can be exploited by miscreants to potentially run malicious code on victims' shiny computers without anyone noticing.…
Ransomware freezes govt IT in Canadian territory of Nunavut, drops citizens right Inuit
A malware infection has crippled the IT operations in the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut.…
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