Two chip CEOs said Tuesday that they didn’t believe it was practical for China to insert spying chips into servers bound for US companies. NXP CEO Richard Clemmer and Renee James, the former president of Intel and current CEO of data…
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  The General Protection Data Regulation (GDPR) is supposed to make companies take extra care with their customers’ personal data. That includes gathering explicit consent to use information and keeping it safe from identity thieves. WP…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security   Researchers have published details of a dangerous flaw in the way the hugely popular WooCommerce plugin interacts with WordPress that could allow an attacker with access to a single account to take…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Thought the vulnerability was discovered and responsibly reported by the security firm Check Point to the DJI security team in March this year, the popular China-based drone manufacturing company fixed…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security KrebsOnSecurity recently had a chance to interview members of the REACT Task Force, a team of law enforcement officers and prosecutors based in Santa Clara, Calif. that has been tracking down…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security   When it comes tracking mobile app users, internet advertising companies like to start them young, according to a new University of Oxford study. Researchers analysed nearly one million Android apps…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security   Not entirely unlike dogs socializing via their nether regions, Facebook’s latest idea is to wirelessly sniff out people around you and make friend suggestions based on what it finds. Only it’s…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), world soccer’s governing body, acknowledged last week that it’s been hacked – again. The first cyberattack, in 2017 – which led to the…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security As a patient moves down the small, loud tunnel of an MRI tube, CT scan, or other high-powered radiology device, it’s safe to assume they believe the diagnostic benefits outweigh the risk of radiation…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Tom Cruise, we’re still playing catch up. Cyber policing isn’t exactly at the level of Minority Report – yet – but it’s getting there. One item of interest from the Pre-Crime Department: in spite of…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Two things happened on Halloween with a bearing on cybersecurity. The first is that the 15th year of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) came to an end. You have heard of NCSAM, right?…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Anonymous Coward, in commenting on a report from The Register about vulnerabilities that expose people’s browsing histories, pithily sums up potential repercussions like so: Sweetheart, whats this…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Hackers are reportedly offering to sell private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts. Many of the compromised accounts belong to Facebook users in Ukraine and Russia, but some are from the…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Back in July, I wrote about the sextortion scam that had been circulating for a while. A new wave was spreading, and I’d seen multiple people taking about it on my Facebook, so I figured putting pen to…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Security researchers have unveiled details of two critical vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips embedded in millions of access points and networking devices used by enterprises around…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security The definition of “operational risk” is variable, but it generally covers the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. I,…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security Hackers have obtained data on 64,000 festival attendees from the 2014 edition of Tomorrowland. The popular electronic music festival in Europe has taken place in Belgium since 2005 and saw 400,000…
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Latest breaking news on Cyber security The flaws in Facebook’s social network just keep coming. The latest one, luckily discovered and reported by a white hat researcher, enabled anyone on Facebook to make themselves (or anyone else) an…
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