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'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation
Linus Torvalds has removed a patch in the next release of the Linux kernel intended to provide additional opt-in mitigation of attacks against the L1 data (L1D) CPU cache.…
Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do
British people will soon begin receiving random phone calls from so-called "contact tracers" warning them about having been in close proximity with potential coronavirus carriers. One of many problems with this scheme is it's dangerously easy to pose as a government contact tracer.…
Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues
On Saturday, at 10:48 UTC, Sectigo's AddTrust legacy root certificate expired, causing a bit of weekend havoc for thousands of websites and services that rely on it for making a secure TLS/SSL connection.…
Get rich quick! Work from home! Earn $100,000 easy – just find a critical flaw in Apple's sign-in system
Security researcher Bhavuk Jain has landed a $100,000 payday after he reported a critical flaw in Apple’s sign-in system that could be exploited to access countless accounts on sites from Dropbox and Spotify to Airbnb.…
REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack
The REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware gang has just published what it claimed were files stolen from UK power grid middleman Elexon.…
UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme
British companies have been offered access to a £400k pot of cash to design a UK-specific "kitemark" assurance scheme for Internet of Things products.…
The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?
Webcast You’ve probably had the COVID-19 coronavirus social-engineering scams quietly filtering into, hopefully, your junk folder by now. Featuring anything from bogus medical research with malware-laden URLs to one-to-one approaches offering fake vaccines, it’s not taken very long.…
Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack
Roundup Six Cisco-operated servers were hacked via SaltStack security vulnerabilities, the networking giant revealed this week.…
Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks
On November 4th, 2018, now-Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced an investigation into his rival Democratic party, accusing the organization of trying to hack the US state's voter registration system.…
Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks
On November 4th, 2018, now-Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced an investigation into his rival Democratic party, accusing the organization of trying to hack the US state's voter registration system.…
Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?
Over the first quarter of 2020, the number of security bugs disclosed by software makers fell 20 per cent though not for any of the right reasons, it seems.…
Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?
Over the first quarter of 2020, the number of security bugs disclosed by software makers fell 20 per cent though not for any of the right reasons, it seems.…
It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists.…
It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists.…
NTT warns its Singapore cloud was hacked, Japanese customer data compromised
Global system integrator NTT has said someone hacked their way into its hosting and cloud services and may have accessed 600-odd customers’ data.…
NTT warns its Singapore cloud was hacked, Japanese customer data compromised
Global system integrator NTT has said someone hacked their way into its hosting and cloud services and may have accessed 600-odd customers’ data.…
Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'
Updated The maintainers of OpenSSH, the widely used toolkit for connecting securely to servers and devices over networks, have warned that the SHA-1 algorithm will be disabled in a "near-future release".…
Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'
The maintainers of OpenSSH, widely used for connecting securely to servers and devices over networks, have warned that the SHA-1 algorithm will be disabled in a "near-future release".…
Cybercrooks tend to prefer Google-branded phishing to Microsoft-flavoured lures
Digital rogues are shunning Microsoft in favour of Google when it comes to launching branded spear-phishing attacks, according to threat intel firm Barracuda Networks.…
Cybercrooks tend to prefer Google-branded phishing to Microsoft-flavoured lures
Digital rogues are shunning Microsoft in favour of Google when it comes to launching branded spear-phishing attacks, according to threat intel firm Barracuda Networks.…
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