Shaun Nichols
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Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages
One thing to let people rent your home, quite another to let them access your private comms → Read More
Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn
There's a starship waiting for the sky, he'd like to come meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds → Read More
Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?
Over the first quarter of 2020, the number of security bugs disclosed by software makers fell 20 per cent though not for any of the right reasons, it seems. Analysts at Risk Based Security cited both internal data and public reports from vendors in putting the number of security vulnerabilities reported over the first three months of the year at 4,968, down from 6,198 over the same period in… → Read More
It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
Open-source mail servers under active exploitation by GRU crew, make sure you're patched up → Read More
You, Apple Mac fan. Put down the homemade oat-milk latte, you need to patch a load of security bugs, too
Patch Thursday is for you, Patch Tuesday is for everyone else → Read More
HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain
The three months to April 30 were "complicated," HP Inc said on Wednesday while trying to explain why its sales dropped by double digits in its fiscal second quarter of 2020. Here's a summary of the bad news for the PC'n'printers industry grandee: * Revenue of $12.5bn was down 11 per cent from the same period a year ago, and short of the $12.85bn Wall Street analysts had forecast for the tech… → Read More
Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards
Crime has never been cheaper to pull off, so long as you're not particular about quality. At least that's according to a Trend Micro whitepaper on the cost of criminal services, which says over the past five years the prices for botnet rentals and credit card numbers have taken a nosedive. "In 2015, generic botnets started selling at around $200 in Russian underground forums. Generic botnet… → Read More
Microsoft banishes Trend Micro driver at center of driver 'cheatware' storm from Windows 10, rootkit detector product pulled from site
Microsoft has blocked a Trend Micro driver from running on Windows 10 – and Trend has withdrawn downloads of its rootkit detector that uses the driver – after the code appeared to cheat Redmond's QA tests. Late last week, Trend removed downloads of its Rootkit Buster from its website. And last night it emerged the kernel-level driver at the heart of the software, tmcomm.sys, was just added to… → Read More
You E-diot! Formula E driver booted off Audi team after getting video game ace to take his place in online race
With motor sports going virtual amid the coronavirus pandemic, it appears not everyone is coping well with the change in gear to online. A Formula E driver was caught cheating this weekend – by getting a video game ace to secretly stand in for him in a virtual race for charity. Daniel Abt admitted letting e-sports pro Lorenz Hoerzing race in his stead at a May 23 Race At Home Challenge event. As… → Read More
Pre-authentication, remote root hole in call-center software? Thanks, Cisco. Just what a long weekend needs
Roundup It's once again time to catch up on the latest happenings from the world of infosec. Cisco emits critical fix in latest patch bundle We have a bunch of new security patches from Switchzilla, including one for a critical hole in its call-center software. CVE-2020-3280 is a remote code execution vulnerability in the Java remote management interface for Unified Contact Center Express. An… → Read More
BoJo buckles: UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023' after pressure from Tory MPs, Uncle Sam
Whoa, no Huawei?! → Read More
Forget BYOD, this is BYOVM: Ransomware tries to evade antivirus by hiding in a virtual machine on infected systems
Like Inception, but expensive and disappointing. So... just like Inception → Read More
DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline
Microsoft, BIND, Google, Cloudflare, Amazon, others fix up software → Read More
Tech's Volkswagen moment? Trend Micro accused of cheating Microsoft driver QA by detecting test suite
AV maker denies allegation, says researcher is 'looking for attention' → Read More
Indeed sued by account exec who said she was raped by male boss amid misogynistic, sexually charged culture
Job list website accused of harassment, discrimination, ignoring complaints → Read More
That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme
Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber → Read More
With millions upon millions out of work in the US, here come the scammers claiming victims' unemployment money using stolen info
State program funds targeted by crooks, Secret Service tells El Reg → Read More
Attorney General: We didn't need Apple to crack terrorist's iPhones – tho we still want iGiant to do it in future
Feds gain access to military base shooter's mobes using outside tools → Read More
I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)
Plus: Printers still easy to pwn, Lady Gaga hack, and more → Read More
Tales from the crypt-oh: Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue
Lawsuit filed by shareholders who thought chip biz was onto something long-term rather than serving a fad → Read More