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Amazon Echo Show, Sony Smart TVs and Netgear routers all cracked in Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019
Pwn2Own 2019 contestants share a total of $315,000 in this year's Pwn2Own contest in Tokyo with Team Fluoroacetate crowned 'Master of Pwn'
Hosting provider SmarterASP.NET hit by ransomware attack
Majority of customers don't have access to their data yet
Amazon patches Ring Video Doorbell vulnerability that could allow hackers to breach owner's Wi-Fi network
Ring vulnerability attributed to device's use of insecure HTTP rather than encrypted HTTPS
Microsoft urges users to patch Windows systems vulnerable to BlueKeep attacks
BlueKeep exploit attempts are increasing, warns Microsoft, and the worst is still to come
Trend Micro: 68,000 user accounts compromised by ex-employee
Trend Micro confesses to compromise that led to user account details finding their way into the hands of a criminal third party
Morrisons: £55m payout over 2014 'grudge' leak of payroll data 'grossly unjust'
Morrisons tells Supreme Court that it should not be held vicariously liable for payroll data leak by senior IT internal auditor Andrew Skelton
Facebook wielded user data as a bargaining tool, according to leaked internal documents
The Facebook documents were leaked from a civil suit against Facebook
Ex-Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabian government
One former Twitter employee arrested on Tuesday in Seattle - form Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos warns that there will be more
Bridging the gap: Can DevOps help embed security into app development?
DevOps is designed to bring developers and operations more closely together. Ahead of Cyber Security Live later this month, Nic Fearn asks: Can it also encompass security as well?
'DarkUniverse' APT referenced in 2017 Shadow Brokers leak uncovered by Kaspersky
DarkUniverse developed its full-featured malware from scratch but went quiet shortly after the Shadow Brokers leak
Who 'owns' cyber security?
Ahead of Cyber Security Live later this month, Nic Fearn asks: With cyber crime rocketing, who in your organisation should have ultimately 'ownership' of IT security?
Laser light commands could enable hackers to hijack Google Home and Amazon Echo personal assistants
The researchers claim that virtually any device featuring a microphone and voice-control software could be hijacked
Proofpoint buys inside-threat management firm ObserveIT for $225m
Deal to close before the end of the year
Google's quantum supremacy is real. Now we urgently need quantum-safe encryption, says UKNQT's Sir Peter Knight
'There's a lot at stake in rewiring the world in terms of encryption and we all depend on getting it right'
Warning after new Windows BlueKeep exploit identified over the weekend
New Bluekeep exploit picked-up by security specialists 'Bluepot' honeypot network
US to licence Huawei suppliers "very shortly", says US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
Number of US suppliers to Huawei "frankly more than we would've thought", admits Ross
Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt start-up secures £5m investment to help protect users' data online
The idea behind Berners-Lee's Inrupt is to flip the rules of who controls data on the web
Wind and solar energy provider hit by denial-of-service attack earlier this year
The attack caused a disconnection between the power provider's main command centre and power generation installations
Warning over QSnatch malware infecting QNAP NAS devices
After gaining access to a device, the malware injects malicious code into the firmware to gain persistence
ICO to police: Live facial recognition 'raises serious concerns'
ICO calls for a statutory code of conduct to stop police misuse of live facial recognition technology
Hackers linked to China compromised telecoms network to monitor world leaders' messages
Chinese intelligence targeting 'upstream data entities', such as telecoms companies, in order to compromise world leaders' communications
Twitter bans political advertising
"Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse," CEO Jack Dorsey declares in 'sub-tweet' aimed at Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
'They didn't think anyone would hack us - 10 months later we suffered a data breach' - Racing Post CISO Johan Pieterse
Racing Post's Johan Pieterse, later appointed CISO, was told 'no-one would want to hack Racing Post'
North Korean malware detected in India's Kudankulam nuclear facility
Critical internal network of the plant remained safe from the malware, the company claims
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