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No, the cops can't get a search warrant to just seize all devices in sight – US appeals court
It's a ruling sending shockwaves through the worlds of privacy, device security, and law enforcement in America.…
Berkeley boffins build better spear-phishing black-box brusier
Security researchers from UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have come up with a way to mitigate the risk of spear-phishing in corporate environments.…
So long and thanks for all the phish: Red teams need to be smarter now
BSides The opening talk at BSides Manchester on Thursday examined how red team tactics are evolving beyond phishing to include a wider variety of methods.…
Q: How many drones are we bombing ISIS with? A: That's secret, mmkay
The Information Tribunal has rejected an appeal by campaigners trying to find out how many British Reaper drones are being used for warlike missions in the Middle East.…
What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit
BSides Weighing in at 800kg secondhand, freestanding ATMs - a “safe with a computer on top” - are a logistical nightmare to own and research, security boffin Leigh-Anne Galloway warned delegates at the BSides Manchester infosec conference yesterday.…
New NIST draft embeds privacy into US govt security for the first time
A draft of new IT security measures by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has for the first time pulled privacy into its core text as well as expanded its scope to include the internet of things and smart home technology.…
US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that's touched that mast
US telecoms giant Verizon says police are increasingly asking it to cough up massive dumps of cellphone data rather than individual records.…
What code is running on Apple's Secure Enclave security chip? Now we have a decryption key...
Apple's Secure Enclave, an ARM-based coprocessor used to enhance iOS security, became a bit less secure on Thursday with the publication of a firmware decryption key.…
Don't panic, Chicago, but 1.8 million of your voters' records leaked from a weak AWS silo
A voting machine supplier for dozens of US states left records on 1.8 million Americans unsecured, in public view for anyone to download, in a misconfigured AWS storage system.…
London council 'failed to test' parking ticket app, exposed personal info
A London council has been fined £70,000 after design faults in its TicketViewer app allowed unauthorised access to 119 documents containing sensitive personal information.…
UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots
The UK Home Office has put out to tender a £4.6m ($5.9m) contract for facial recognition software – despite the fact its biometrics strategy and retention systems remain embroiled in controversy.…
Bank IT fella accused of masterminding multimillion-dollar insider-trading scam
A banking IT expert orchestrated an insider-trading caper that raked in millions of dollars for him and his pals, it was claimed on Wednesday.…
Rowhammmer RAM attack adapted to hit flash storage
It's Rowhammer, Jim, but not as we know it: IBM boffins have taken the DRAM-bit-flipping-as-attack-vector trick found by Google and applied it to MLC NAND Flash.…
NotPetya ransomware attack cost us $300m – shipping giant Maersk
The world's largest container shipping biz has revealed the losses it suffered after getting hit by the NotPetya ransomware outbreak, and the results aren't pretty.…
Disgraced US Secret Service agent coughs to second Bitcoin heist
An ex-Secret Service agent who stole Bitcoins from the Silk Road dark web drugs bazaar he was supposed to be investigating has admitted stealing even more sacks of the digital currency.…
HBO <i>Game Of Thrones</i> leak: Four 'techies' arrested in India
Four arrests connected with the leak of an unaired Game of Thrones episode have been made in India.…
She’s arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base
Pics Britain’s newest warship, its biggest warship of all time, HMS Queen Elizabeth, entered Portsmouth Harbour for the first time this morning.…
Och. Scottish Parliament under siege from brute-force cyber attack
Hackers are trying to break into Scottish Parliament email accounts weeks after similar campaigns against Westminster.…
Speaking in Tech: Tomorrow's infosec fiasco is a 'we're not a company any more' fiasco
Months after breach at the 'UnBank' Ffrees, customers complain: No one told us
Customers of UK financial services firm FFrees said they were unaware of a breach that took place there four months ago until a security researcher got in touch with them.…
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