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A notorious malware campaign is targeting banks and financial institutions in the US and the UK with cyber attacks which are not only destructive in their own right, but also could be used as the basis for future intrusions by other hackers. Emotet started life as a banking trojan, but has also evolved into a […] More
A Dutch court has demanded that an algorithm-based system used by the government to identify and track down potential housing and benefit cheats is dropped with immediate effect. As reported by DutchNews, on Wednesday, the District Court of The Hague ruled that the system conflicts with EU human rights and privacy protections. Dubbed System Risk […] More
Veteran IT pro and Windows 10 patch expert Susan Bradley has once again appealed to Microsoft’s top execs to fix the quality of Windows 10 patching. Bradley, a regular contributor to Windows blog AskWoody, in 2018 implored Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other top execs to fix what she observed was an uptick in quality […] More
A burglary and stolen laptop from GridWorks IC, a vendor hired by Health Share of Oregon, has led to the exposure of Medicaid member data. On Wednesday, Health Share of Oregon, the state’s largest Medicaid coordinated care organization (CCO), said that on January 2, 2020, the organization’s contracted non-emergent medical transportation (Ride to Care) vendor […] More
A trojan malware campaign is targeting online banking users around the world with the aim of stealing credit card information, finances and other personal details. Detailed by cybersecurity researchers at Fortinet, the Metamorfo banking trojan has targeted users of over 20 online banks in countries around the world including the US, Canada, Peru, Chile, Spain, […] More
[embedded content] Academics from Israel have detailed and demoed a new method for stealing data from air-gapped computers. The method relies on making small tweaks to an LCD screen’s brightness settings. The tweaks are imperceptible to the human eye, but can be detected and extracted from video feeds using algorithmical methods. This article describes this […] More
The cybersecurity of the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) has not been independently assessed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) despite it being made an action item nearly four years ago. The nation’s Cyber Security Strategy of April 2016 said that government agencies “at higher risk of malicious cyber activity” would receive “independent cybersecurity assessments”. A discussion paper [PDF] […] More
Image: Dmitry Moraine A security researcher hunting for bug bounties discovered last month that a cryptocurrency-mining botnet had found a home and burrowed inside a web server operated by the US Department of Defense (DOD). The issue was discovered and reported via the DOD’s official bug bounty program by Indian security researcher Nitesh Surana. Initially, […] More
