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iAdmins steaming over handling of 'critical' patch rollout

MacOS network admins are being advised to update their copies of the Jamf Pro management software following the disclosure of a critical security flaw.…

Yahooligan accessed about 6,000 accounts to hunt for revealing photos and videos

Former Yahoo! software engineer Reyes Daniel Ruiz has pleaded guilty in a California federal court to one count of computer intrusion after breaking into customers' Yahoo! emails and accounts at other service providers to obtain private data, mainly sexual images and videos of account holders.…

We told you! We told you to patch! Did you listen?

Security plaftorm vendor Comodo has 'fessed up to a digital break-in affecting 245,000 users – after it ignored line one in the first chapter of the "How to do Basic Security" book about timely patching of software.…

C-suite bods quietly 'fess up to oopsies in survey

Nearly seven in eight CTOs and CIOs have admitted to their businesses suffering a data breach, according to a survey.…

Email, social media and telecomms kit abused at the tax collector

Almost 100 staff at UK tax collector HMRC faced disciplinary action for computer misuse in the previous two full financial years.…

Guilty plea to Computer Misuse Act crimes

A man who hacked women's Facebook accounts to steal their intimate images has been ordered to carry out 200 hours' unpaid work after admitting three criminal charges under the Computer Misuse Act.…

Find everything you need to know to stay one step ahead with SANS next month

Promo  Hosted by the UK government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and training specialist SANS Institute, the two-day CyberThreat Summit 2019 in London this autumn is a highly informative technical event bringing together security practitioners from the UK and Europe.…

Remote code flaw sparks calls for major updates

Amins of Linux and Unix boxes running Exim would be well-advised to update the software following the disclosure of another critical security flaw.…

Let's hope that 'take this job and shove it' moment was worth it

A former system admin for a US Army contractor has been sentenced to two years behind bars for trashing his employer's network on his way out the door.…

Look, it's CB3ROB – remember them?

Cops have seized the physical premises and servers of the Dutch-German ISP that once hosted The Pirate Bay – after storming the hosting biz's ex-NATO bunker hideout with 600 gunmen.…

Cryptocoin from selling hacking services, ppldeets online helps fund crimefighters

British cops have raised £240,000 in their first ever UK-based auction of cryptocurrencies understood to have been seized from former TalkTalk hacker Elliot Gunton , who'd "earned" it selling hacking services and flogging people's stolen personal details online.…

Plus, Baltimore's disastrous ransomware infection and worse IT practices

Roundup  Let's look at some of the latest security news you may have missed this week.…

Coder claims iThings older than two years can be unlocked from Apple's clutches

A programmer claims to have found a way to execute arbitrary code on recent-ish iPhones and iPads, paving the way for full-blown tethered jailbreaks.…

Fragrance Direct discovers 'malicious code' that led to leakage of customer data

Online merchant fragrancedirect.co.uk has confirmed a miscreant broke into its systems and made off with a raft of customers’ personal data, including payment card details.…

You Steer-ed into some potential trouble there

Exclusive  A British firm whose mobile apps monitor the mental state of 35,000 British schoolchildren is having to rewrite them after researchers found hardcoded login credentials within.…

Profile info on 5 million users, including ordering history, hashed passwords, plus driver records, exposed to miscreants

Gig-economy delivery app maker DoorDash is so, so sorry this Thursday after hackers gained access to nearly five million of its customer accounts.…

DEF CON dossier reveals: You are not as secure as you imagine

The Unites States' electronic ballot boxes are as vulnerable as ever to physical tampering by hackers. So says this year's DEF CON Voting Village Report, which summarizes the findings of infosec experts who picked apart the various vote-casting computer systems in use today by cities and counties around the country.…

And, crucially, how you can thwart these next-gen miscreants and protect your org

Webcast  We all know there are miscreants out there looking to break into our computer systems and steal our data – we even know how it's done.…

President facing impeachment probe, Brexit off the rails... but more importantly, your Dunkies account was potentially pwned

The US state of New York is suing food chain Dunkin Donuts for what is says is an illegal lapse in computer security.…

Now is a very good time to patch your estate

Cisco has doled out yet more security updates for its IOS and IOS XE network operating systems, which, we are obliged to remind you, is its scheduled six-monthly patch run and not the usual "oh bugger" state of affairs.…