“In allowing GCHQ to extract a huge amount of information, and to turn an individual’s own devices against them by co-opting the devices as instruments of video and audio surveillance, it is at least as intrusive as searching a person’s house and installing bugs so as to enable continued monitoring,” wrote Privacy International deputy director Eric King....
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Cyber-security leaders around the UK are headed to De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) starting today for an event run by Cyber Security Challenge UK, to help train future experts with core skills needed to face many of the existing security risks that businesses combat today.This year's Cyber Development Camp will last three days for civilians and military personnel that want to join the growing cyber-security industry. Members will be put on a series of scenarios that will include track...
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A recently patched Samba flaw known as EternalRed and SambaCry has been exploited in the wild to deliver a cryptocurrency miner to vulnerable machines, researchers warned. These attacks, observed by both Kaspersky and Cyphort, were launched shortly after the existence of the security hole was brought to light and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits were made available....
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The developers behind a commodity remote-access tool (RAT) that allows full control of a victim’s computer has been taken down by Australian and global authorities. The Imminent Monitor RAT (IM-RAT) first appeared in 2012, the work of a developer going by the handle of “Shockwave,” according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division. The RAT was sold via a company calling itself “Imminent Methods.” Advertised as “the fastest remote administr...
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Earl Enterprises, the parent company of Planet Hollywood and other US restaurant chains, has admitted suffering a 10-month breach of customer payment card data. The firm said in a notice on Friday that hackers installed POS malware at a number of restaurants including those operating under the brand names Buca di Beppo, Earl of Sandwich, Planet Hollywood, Chicken Guy!, Mixology and Tequila Taqueria. “The malicious software was designed to capture payment card data, which could have include...
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Iranian hackers have taken credit for breaching a dam near New York City in 2013 after details of the intrusion were publicly acknowledged earlier this week for the first time ever....
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