Notorious surveillance tech provider Hacking Team has suffered a major data breach of internal documents which appears to show that repressive regimes including Bahrain were customers....
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In a presentation titled ‘Avoiding Cybersecurity Groundhog Day’, Diana Kelley, global executive security advisor at IBM Security, called for the cybersecurity industry to start looking at the past to stop making the same mistakes. “Every time there is another breach, it kind of feels like groundhog day. We need to get out of that repetition”, she said. Whilst she acknowledged that perfect security is not possible, she insisted that the industry can stop making the same mi...
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A Hong Kong-based maker of children’s educational toys has suffered a data breach, exposing the details of potentially millions of children and their parents. VTech, which builds “electronic learning toys,” revealed in a statement on Friday that an “unauthorized party” accessed customer data held in its Learning Lodge app store database on 14 November. It continued: “Upon discovering the unauthorized access we immediately conducted a thorough investigation, wh...
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"Symantec has identified 487 groups of attackers mounting attacks using njRAT. These attacks appear to have different motivations, which can be broadly classed as hacktivism, information theft and botnet building," the researchers said....
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Dell PCs have been shipping to users with certificates that attackers could easily clone to impersonate any HTTPS-protected website, such as online banking and Google. This issue is similar to the Lenovo Superfish problem uncovered earlier this year. In that case, news that some Lenovo laptop models came with adware pre-installed. The Chinese PC player first tried to head off criticism by claiming the software was designed to “enhance the shopping experience” for customers by present...
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The amount of personal data traveling to and from the Internet has exploded, yet many applications and services continue to put user information at risk by not encrypting data sent over wireless networks. Software engineer Tony Webster has a classic solution—shame....
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