WhatsApp Zuck?
As some of you may be aware, a fair number of us Security types are more than a little suspicious of WhatsApp, believing it to be a monster vector for potential infiltration of private devices which may be used by Nation State (perish the thought) or simply malicious criminals (punctuation entirely deliberate). So suspicious are […]
Naughty Boris
A minute doesn’t seem to go by these days without the Prime Minister getting his wrists slapped, or in the case of this week’s Supreme Court decision being given the full treatment from the spider brooch wearing Lady Hale. As you know we avoid political ranting in this blog, pretty much the only place we […]
INTERNET EXPLORER CRITICAL VULNERABILITY
Priority: High Executive Summary: Microsoft have released an emergency security update for Internet Explorer following the discovery of a remote code execution vulnerability in the product [1]. The vulnerability, which is known to affect at least versions 9-11 of Internet Explorer, is caused by an issue in how the web browser’s scripting engine handles objects […]
Satellite’s Gone
Some of you will be old enough and have enough working synapses to remember the early days of the DEF CON hacking conference. If you think you remember the first one, which was in 1992, you would have to be one of the hundred or so hackers who attended what was essentially a private party […]
DNSSL
We know, it’s just that DNSTLS didn’t sound as nice. This week, the mighty Google announced that it would be experimenting with the use of DNS-Over-HTTPS (aka DoH) in the next version of the Chrome browser (release 78). Now all of our readers will no doubt be aware of many of the functions of DNS, […]
Tech industry reacts to Brexit latest: ‘Give us certainty’
Article by Robert Scammell – Verdict Parliament is prorogued, the House of Commons speaker is stepping down and prime minister Boris Johnson has lost six votes in as many days. But for all the fanfare in Westminster, the country remains in stasis, none the wiser as to whether the UK will still be in the European […]
Are You OK UK?
Now it would be very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that we were going to start spouting on about politics, or even worse religion, but oh no we have decided to give the editing team a well-deserved break, and despite the absolute richness of the material available, we are talking about something […]
Whiff WAF
Way back in 2008, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson caused something of a stink about the origins of the game of Ping Pong. Boris (man of the people) claimed it to be invented not by the Chinese, but by the British, batting wine corks around after dinner as far away as The Raj using cigar […]
Exclusive: Teletext Holidays data breach exposes 212,000 customer call recordings
Article by Robert Scammell – Verdict British travel company Teletext Holidays has suffered a data breach in which some 212,000 customer call audio files were left unprotected on an online server for three years, exposing customer names, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. Truly Travels, trading as Teletext Holidays, formed out […]
NATO: Attack Like WannaCry Could Prompt “Collective Defense Commitment”
Article by Michael Hill – Infosecurity Magazine NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has gone on record to state that a cyber-attack – such as the WannaCry outbreak of 2017 – would prompt a “collective defense commitment” from the intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. In Prospect Magazine, Stoltenberg wrote: “Attacks can affect every […]