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Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they've cracked it
A group of academics reckon they've found a way to uniquely fingerprint aeroplanes’ Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) tracking transmitters – though an aviation infosec boffin says more research is needed to verify the new technique.…
One more reason for Apple to dump Intel processors: Another SGX, kernel data-leak flaw unearthed by experts
Updated Boffins based in Austria, Germany, and the UK have identified yet another data-leaking side-channel flaw affecting Intel processors, and potentially other chips, that exposes cryptographic secrets in memory.…
EA Games' Origin client contained privilege escalation vuln that anyone with user-grade access could exploit
A British infosec outfit spotted a privilege escalation vulnerability in EA Games’ Origin client after discovering the software was hunting for an absent DLL file when users opened it.…
Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web's privacy
Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, is having another crack at fixing the internet’s biggest problems with the launch of a new enterprise server.…
Laptop mega-manufacturer Compal hit by DoppelPaymer ransomware – same one that hit German hospital
Compal, the world’s second-largest white-label laptop manufacturer, has been hit by the file-scrambling DoppelPaymer ransomware gang – and the hackers want $17m in cryptocurrency before they'll hand over the decryption key.…
Zoom strong-armed by US watchdog to beef up security after boasting of nonexistent end-to-end encryption
Zoom has been forced to agree to a range of security improvements in a settlement with America's consumer watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, as a result of earlier wrongly claiming it offered true 256-bit end-to-end encryption.…
RansomEXX trojan variant is being deployed against Linux systems, warns Kaspersky
A trojan targeting Linux and deployed by a known ransomware gang has been discovered by Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky.…
Somebody's Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won't take it lying down
British eavesdropping agency GCHQ is actively hacking Russian attempts to undermine coronavirus vaccine efforts, according to The Times.…
Sanctioned Chinese hacking competition cracks Chrome, ESXi, Windows 10, iOS 14, Galaxy 20, Qemu and more
VMware has taken the unusual step of warning about an imminent security advisory after a Chinese team successfully popped its flagship product.…
Hackers work 24 hours a day – when will you schedule your security training?
Promo We might all be living under various degrees of lockdown, but that doesn’t mean you can’t sharpen up your security skills with some of the best instructors around – and all at early bird prices, if you’re quick.…
Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs
Let's Encrypt, a Certificate Authority (CA) that puts the "S" in "HTTPS" for about 220m domains, has issued a warning to users of older Android devices that their web surfing may get choppy next year.…
Ransomware crims read our bank balance and demanded the lot, reveals Scotland's Dundee and Angus College
The criminals who took out Scotland's Dundee and Angus College made a ransom demand that precisely added up to the contents of its bank account – and that was no accident, its principal has said.…
Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware gang pwns British housing biz via suspected phishing attack
A social housing provider in Norwich, England, has said it was hit with the Sodinokibi ransomware following what it assumes was a successful phishing attack.…
Snap-crappy: 183 Brit local authorities operate 80,000 CCTV cams between them, says surveillance watchdog
"There are over 6,000 systems and 80,000 cameras in operation across 183 LAs!" So exclaimed the UK's outgoing Surveillance Camera Commissioner as he detailed just how many council CCTV cameras there are across the nation.…
Ransomware attack shutters Brazilian courts. But did attackers breach the virtual machine divide?
Brazil’s Superior Tribunal de Justiça has temporarily shut down after a suspected ransomware attack.…
Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered
A tech support scammer making random phone calls in the hope of finding a victim called the cybercrime squad of an Australian police force, which used the happy accident to document the scam and inform the public what to watch out for.…
Apple emits iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS patches to fix three hijack-my-device flaws exploited in the wild
Apple on Thursday issued security updates for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS that address three holes reported by Google's Project Zero among exploitable bugs found by others. Installing the latest software for your iPhone, iPad and so on will address these programming blunders.…
After Cummings' Barnard Castle trip, cheeky Britons started using the word 'vision' in their passwords
Britons began using the word "vision" in their passwords after prime ministerial advisor Dominic Cummings was caught travelling across the country from his parents' farm in Durham to Barnard Castle "to test" his eyesight, according to research from Pen Test Partners (PTP).…
Data protection scofflaws failed to pay £2m in fines from UK watchdog – and 68% of penalties are still outstanding
Scofflaws have failed to pay nearly £2m in fines handed out by the UK Information Commissioner's Office over the past 18 months, according to new research.…
Deloitte's 'Test your Hacker IQ' site fails itself after exposing database user name, password in config file
A website created for global consultancy Deloitte to quiz people on knowledge of hacking tactics has proven itself vulnerable to hacking.…
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