Darren Pauli
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A router with a fear of heights? Yup. It's a thing
Cisco shipped PSUs that like it low and slow, which is bad news for mountainous networks → Read More
Just give up: 123456 is still the world's most popular password
Data diggers' dumpster dive demonstrates dumb and dumberer defences → Read More
Trump's cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient 'easily hackable website'
Stunned security experts tear strips off president-elect pick hours after announcement → Read More
HPE 3PAR storage SNAFU takes Australian Tax Office offline
Sources tell of 10-hour data wiping disaster recovery plan after unique collapse → Read More
Standards body warned SMS 2FA is insecure and nobody listened
Duo Security says NIST's advice to deprecate out-of-band passwords has been ignored → Read More
Password reset warrior arrested for popping 1050 student accounts
And once he was in, this creep searched for sexy emails → Read More
'Pork Explosion' flaw splatters Foxconn's Android phones
Full compromise over USB bacon-ed in to smartmobes → Read More
Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Tumblr all popped by same gang
Says five-strong 'Group E' may have lifted a billion Yahoo! records, sells to states → Read More
FireEye warns 'massive' ransomware campaign hits US, Japan hospitals
Locky ransomware running rampant, mounted on personalised phish → Read More
Google password fill effort could kill Android malware's best tricks
Small boost to login speed could be a big roadblock for Marshmallow malware → Read More
Black Hats control Jeep's steering, kill brakes
Tiny device could drive remote CAN bus assassinations → Read More
Zero day hole can pwn millions of LastPass users, all that's needed is a malicious site
Remote 'complete account compromise' possible, Google hacker finds → Read More
US hospitals hacked with ancient exploits
Deliberately doused vulns the right medicine for XP backdoor bliss → Read More
Dr Craig Wright lodges 51 blockchain patents with Blighty IP office
EITC Holdings sources promise hundreds more to follow → Read More
Password reset: 45 million creds leak from popular .com forums
Some 45 million logins for 939 popular sites including motorcycle.com, autoguide.com, and mothering.com have been stolen. The method of attack and actor responsible is unknown, although many of the sites ran a vastly outdated and hackable versions of vBulletin. Usernames, email addresses, IP information, and passwords are breached. Breach data aggregator LeakedSource which obtained the records… → Read More
Facebook to kill native chat, bring opt-in crypto to Messenger
Facebook offers choice between bots and spies, or quiet privacy → Read More
Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you'll get what you deserve → Read More
Android Lollipop sucks at security, says researcher
Opaque apps mean you're not clicking what you think you're clicking → Read More
Cryptxxx shipwrecked: Laughing white hats shred latest ransomware
Darwin award up for grabs as crims and Kaspersky push each other to survive or die → Read More
Criminals exploit zero day Flash vulnerability
Adobe will this week patch a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that is being actively exploited in the wild. Not information is available on the exploit (CVE-2016-4117) ahead of the patch that is set for release from tomorrow. "A critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) exists in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.226 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Chrome OS," Adobe says.… → Read More