Anyone still at their posts, please stop these address takeovers... please, helloo? Anyone there? America's Homeland Security has urged US government departments and federal agencies to shore up their DNS control panels after hackers successfully stormed the barricades.…
Nest urged owners of its security cameras Tuesday to use enhanced authentication to thwart hackers, after one terrified a family with a hoax nuclear missile attack. read more
Open the door, get on the floor – not so fast if you've an iPhone 4 Apple has emitted a handful of software patches to address security vulnerabilities in iOS, macOS, and various peripherals.…
How many ad blocks could an ad slinger block if an ad slinger could block blocks? Google software engineers have proposed changes to the open-source Chromium browser code that will break content-blocking extensions, including ad blockers.…
Disable redirects before applying update The Debian Project has patched a security flaw in its software manager Apt that can be exploited by miscreants to execute commands as root on victims' boxes as they update or install packages.…
Parly-vous cyber-security? No plan to surrender, military bug bounty coming FIC2019 France’s defence secretary Florence Parly today declared “Cyber war has begun.”…
Researchers show how rogue web applications can be used to attack vulnerable browser extensions in a hack that gives adversaries access to private user data.
Pragmatic chap looks at reality of international relations FIC2019 A French diplomat has suggested that future global regulation of cyberspace could exempt spying from regulation "as long as some specific sectors are preserved".…
Nearly 100,000 malware distribution websites have been identified and taken down over the course of 10 months as part of an abuse.ch project called URLhaus. read more
The French Data Protection Authority (DPA) found a lack of transparency when it comes to how Google harvests and uses personal data for ad-targeting purposes.
White House to nominate former DocuSign boss The US may have finally complied with the European Commission's repeated requests to name a permanent Privacy Shield ombudsperson, The Register understands.…
ACROS Security’s 0patch service has released unofficial patches for three Windows vulnerabilities that Microsoft has yet to address, including denial-of-service (DoS), file read, and code execution issues. read more
European NGO noyb ('none of your business') filed ten GDPR-related complaints against eight international streaming services on January 18, 2019. The complaints allege that the concerned streaming services have not fully -- and in some cases not at all -- responded to the lawful 'right of access by the data…
Free and open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt today started the process of completely retiring TLS-SNI-01 validation support. read more
The newly announced Act to Strengthen Identity Theft Protections in North Carolina proposes that ransomware attacks be treated as data breaches. read more
