One of the world’s most active global cyber threat intelligence firms has come out in defence of the Prime Minister’s decision to reveal secret briefings about hacking global activity widely attributed to Russian state-backed actors dating back nearly a decade.
Andrew Colley |
25 Jan |
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The looming opening of Cisco Systems’ new ANZ headquarters is the latest in a series of investments that confirm security vendors are serious about establishing themselves within the increasingly problematic cybersecurity landscape expected to dominate strategizing during 2017.
David Braue |
24 Jan |
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2016 was the year of ransomware, says non-profit spam-fighting project, Spamhaus.
Liam Tung |
24 Jan |
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The inauguration of Donald Trump as US president led some to wonder whether a DDoS attack on Whitehouse.gov can be considered as a legitimate protest like any other. There was also buzz as outgoing president Obama’s pardon of secret leaker Chelsea Manning led to [an offer by Julian Assange to face extradition to the US.
David Braue |
23 Jan |
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The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance-proof messaging.
Michael Kan |
21 Jan |
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Researchers at Binghamton State University have proposed a model that uses patients' heartbeats as an encryption key for electronic records.
Magdalena Petrova |
21 Jan |
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Spanish police have arrested a suspected Russian hacker of developing the Neverquest banking Trojan, a malware targeting financial institutions across the world.
Michael Kan |
21 Jan |
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Steven Mnuchin, a former CIO and executive vice president for Goldman Sachs, told senators on Thursday that he is “very concerned about the lack of first-rate technology at the IRS” as well as staff cuts in recent years.
Matt Hamblen |
21 Jan |
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Over the past two years, Google has convinced developers to patch security issues in over 275,000 Android apps hosted on its official app store.
Lucian Constantin |
21 Jan |
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Microsoft’s lawsuit objecting to the indiscriminate use by U.S. law enforcement of orders that demand user data without the opportunity to inform the customer may run into questions about the software giant's standing to raise the issue on behalf of its customers.
John Ribeiro |
20 Jan |
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he stands by an earlier pledge to face trial in the U.S., but he is first urging federal investigators to name the exact charges against him.
Michael Kan |
20 Jan |
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The creators of encrypted email service ProtonMail have set up a server that's only accessible over the Tor anonymity network as a way to fight possible censorship attempts in some countries.
Lucian Constantin |
20 Jan |
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Researchers are reporting data wiping attacks hitting openly accessible Hadoop and CouchDB deployments.
Lucian Constantin |
20 Jan |
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Anti-virus software is getting worse at detecting both known and new threats, says a new report. Average detection rates for known malware went down a couple of percentage points slightly from 2015 to 2016, while detection rates for zero-days dropped in a big way.
Maria Korolov |
20 Jan |
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The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday updated rules relating to the collection, retention and dissemination of information of U.S. persons, including putting a limit of five years on holding certain sensitive data and introducing restrictions for querying the data.
John Ribeiro |
19 Jan |
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Former NSA Cyber Task Force Executive Joins Fortinet Leadership to Drive Infrastructure Security, Expand Federal Program and Serve as Strategic Customer Advisor
CSO staff |
19 Jan |
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Ancient malware could have been used to spy on high-value Mac users for decades.
Liam Tung |
19 Jan |
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Facebook paid a US$40,000 reward to a researcher after he warned the company that its servers were vulnerable to an exploit that had been known for months.
Lucian Constantin |
19 Jan |
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U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden will be allowed to stay in Russia for "another couple of years," according to a spokeswoman for the government there.
Grant Gross |
19 Jan |
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Oracle released its first batch of security patches this year fixing 270 vulnerabilities, mostly in business-critical applications.
Lucian Constantin |
19 Jan |
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