Security
Millions of medical scans and records lying unprotected on the internet, claim researchers
Medical details of around 24 million patients are freely accessible on the internet, warn researchers
Doubts raised over Simjacker security flaw
Simjacker exploit takes advantage of a legacy feature of the SIM card, according to researchers, that most telcos don't use
Unsecured database of 16.6 million Ecuadorean citizens found by security researchers
The comprehensive personal details of Ecuador's citizens - encompassing financial information - included an entry for President Maduro
Russia hacked encrypted FBI radio communications
Outdated radio systems used to track agents on US soil believed to have been compromised by an insider
Russian hackers in 2016 cyber attack on Ukraine's power grid intended to damage transmissions stations
The attack that blacked out most of the capital city Kyiv was intended to cause physical damage, claims new report
Autonomous weapons could 'accidentally' start the next world war, warns ex-Google engineer
Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google last year over military drone project, warns over 'killer robots'
US sanctions three North Korean groups linked with multi-million dollar cyber attacks worldwide
These groups receive orders from North Korea's intelligence agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, says the US Treasury
Chinese state sponsored hackers behind cyber attack on parliament, Australia intelligence agency concluded
Australian intelligence believes Chinese state-sponsored hackers were behind cyber attack on parliament - but government decided to cover it up
Massive ticket fraud scheme targeting Groupon and Ticketmaster uncovered with discovery of unsecured database
Unsecured database containing 17 million email addresses was found to be part of fraud targeting Groupon, Ticketmaster and other online ticket vendors
Two pen testers hired to check courthouse security arrested for burglary
State commissioned the penetration test hadn't anticipated that the security pros would test the court's physical security
Google to test DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome 78
Google plays catch-up after Mozilla announced plans to introduce DNS-over-HTTPS by default in Firefox
NetCAT side-channel flaw affecting Intel server CPUs could enable attackers to sniff sensitive network data
The weakness affects all Intel chips supporting the RDMA and DDIO features
Microsoft patches 80 vulnerabilities in September 2019 Patch Tuesday
Seventeen 'critical' vulnerabilities patched, while 62 were rated as 'important'
Warning over Win32/StealthFalcon malware that uses Windows update system to steal data
The BITS system is used by Microsoft to send Windows updates to its users and is generally ignored by firewalls
Critical vulnerabilities in Telestar IoT radio devices could enable attackers to remotely capture systems
Hackers can also transmit audio as commands and force a play stream using the security bugs
Wikipedia whacked in weekend DDoS attack
Wikipedia blames 'malicious attack' on 'bad faith actors'
Capital One hacker Paige Thompson pleads not guilty on all counts
Thompson is accused of compromising data on 106 million Capital One customers in the US and Canada
Apple criticises Google for creating 'false impression' about the scale of iPhone hack
Apple claims that the attack on iPhones was not "a broad-based exploit of iPhones" as described by Google Project Zero
China-linked APT3 group developed NSA-style hacking tools by observing their network traffic
APT3 used NSA-linked exploit tools before 'Shadow Brokers' leaks in 2016 and 2017
Warning over new Android spyware, dubbed Joker, found in 24 malicious apps in Google's Play store
Joker malware can read SMS messages, contact lists and other information on victims' Android handsets
How Google uses secret 'push pages' to share personal details with advertisers
Combined with tracking cookies supplied by Google, push pages enable organisations to identify individual web browsers, claims Brave's Johnny Ryan
Google accused of using secret web pages to leak users' personal data to advertising firms
The evidence in support of the claim was submitted to Ireland's Data Protection Commission by Brave's Johnny Ryan
Twitter turns off tweeting via SMS after hackers hijack CEO Jack Dorsey's account
Tweet-by-SMS feature might be reinstated at a later date, Twitter says
Phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users found online in exposed database
No password was used to protect the exposed server, which contained phone numbers and more of hundreds of millions of Facebook users
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