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Looks like the ailing security shop priced itself out of an acquisition by chip giant

Symantec's share price has plunged on reports that its planned merger with Broadcom has fallen through.…

Account hijacking claimed by some but it may just be a developer behaving badly

Another JavaScript package in the npm registry - the installer for PureScript - has been tampered with, leading project maintainers to revise their software to purge the malicious code.…

What you need to know from infosec land lately

Roundup  Here is a brief look at some of the other security stories floating around right now.…

Scrambling addresses can't always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads

A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard's anti-tracking measures.…

He also said they're working with the CIA

Infosec company ESET is reportedly suing a member of the Slovakian Parliament for insulting it over social media.…

1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are

As if further indication was needed of Britain's slide into a surveillance state, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has backed highly flawed police trials of facial recognition cameras.…

Good luck ever finding this guy again after, dare we say, his life jumped the tracks

A software developer fled to China from America with vital train transportation system computer code, US prosecutors have alleged.…

Proposed legislation would force Homeland Security to sound alarm on voting system intrusions

Two US lawmakers are pushing a bipartisan bill that would force the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to alert the public of hacking attempts on election computer systems.…

And now he's a convicted criminal – but still in uniform

A serving Metropolitan police officer who illegally accessed a police database to monitor a criminal investigation into his own conduct has pleaded guilty to crimes under the Computer Misuse Act.…

iGiant acts to protect users

Apple has pushed a silent update to Macs, disabling the hidden web server installed by the popular Zoom web-conferencing software.…

Privacy, what privacy? You can save our lives but you'll never take our data. Oh, damn, you already have

Exclusive  NHS Inform, Scotland’s answer to the NHS 111 Online health symptom checker website, is calling user tracking elements from Google and Facebook.…

Dictators, er, er, freedom-loving leaders' spyware choice gets upgrade, claims Kaspersky

A nasty new variant of the FinSpy snoopware tool that infects and slurps data from Android and iOS phones and tablets is being peddled, we're told.…

Chance to hack Hellenic targets better than a bottle of Metaxa

Miscreants notorious for hijacking traffic to victims' servers by changing their DNS records have been accused of hacking a top domain-name registrar in Greece.…

Evil hypervisors can work out what apps are running, extract data from encrypted guests

Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort.…

Power, infrastructure, factory gear can be hijacked without any password check at all

Industrial control software vulnerabilities, which would be perfect for next-gen Stuxnet-style worms to exploit, are as prevalent as ever, apparently.…

They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways

The Information Commissioner's Office issued £3m worth of fines for data breaches in the year to April 2018 – a mere fraction of its recent proposed GDPR-enabled penalties on British Airways and Marriott.…

Maker of Firefox fires fox from hen house guard duty

Mozilla on Tuesday added digital certificates belonging to security biz DarkMatter and its subsidiaries to Firefox's OneCRL blocklist, based on concerns that the UAE-based company will misuse its power as a certificate authority (CA) to intercept online communications.…

Meanwhile, Adobe gives Flash the month off. SAP emits fixes, though

Patch Tuesday  Summer is now firmly upon us, and depending on where you are, the weather could be just about anything from stupidly hot to unbearably wet and cold right now given the state of the climate.…

Is this the Chinese giant's Winnie the Pooh moment?

Huawei has gagged infosec researchers from discussing now-patched critical vulnerabilities in the Chinese giant's web systems that could have been exploited to steal customer information and derail the manufacturer's operations.…

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office wants to fine Marriott Hotels £99m over its loss of 383 million customer booking records last year.…