Security

Organized crime in the UK turns to cryptocurrencies for money-laundering schemes Albanian gangs are using fintech. Law enforcement says it needs a new approach to tackle the problem. Executives of a US company are being accused of raising at least $11 million through a cryptocurrency-based Ponzi scheme.  This week, the ...

Software bugs and misinterpretations of industry standards are at the heart of most cases of incorrectly-issued SSL certificates — accounting for 42% of all incidents –, a recent academic study has discovered. The research, authored by a team from the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington, looked ...

Image: Tor Project The Tor Project has removed from its network this week more than 800 servers that were running outdated and end-of-life (EOL) versions of the Tor software. The removed servers represent roughly 13.5% of the 6,000+ servers that currently comprise the Tor network and help anonymize traffic for ...

Whisper Systems Signal fixed today a bug that could have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on victims by placing and then immediately auto-answering a call, without the callee’s permission. The bug is reminiscent of Apple’s FaceTime bug discovered in January, which similarly allowed attackers to eavesdrop on other iPhone users by ...

​Australian woman arrested over AU$450,000 Ripple theft The woman allegedly ‘stole’ 100,000 units of the cryptocurrency. A former systems engineer has wound up in prison after being found guilty of destroying critical US Army network resources in retaliation for termination.  Last week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that ...

Microsoft, Hewlett Foundation, MasterCard, and several other unnamed major corporations and philanthropic institutions have formed an independent non-profit organisation called the CyberPeace Institute aimed at protecting victims against cyberattacks and helping them recover from one. “For years, non-governmental organisations around the world have provided on-the-ground help and vocal advocacy for ...

There’s been much said about Google’s supposed plans to limit the power of ad blockers in Chrome, but something similar has already happened in Safari, and not that many people have noticed, let alone criticize Apple. Over the course of the last year and a half, Apple has effectively neutered ...

Malware that mines cryptocurrency has made a comeback over the summer, with an increased number of campaigns being discovered and documented by cyber-security firms. The primary reason for this sudden resurgence is the general revival of the cryptocurrency market, which saw trading prices recover after a spectacular crash in late ...

A hacker who made a fortune by breaking into people’s accounts and posting spam on their behalf is now warning users against password reuse. Kyle Milliken, a 29-year-old Arkansas man, was released last week from a federal work camp. He served 17 months for hacking into the servers of several ...

Australia is reviewing its metadata and encryption laws ZDNet’s Chris Duckett tells TechRepublic’s Karen Roby that an Australian parliamentary committee is looking into the nation’s controversial laws, but it is no reason to pop champagne. Read more: https://zd.net/2YhRrHG The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is complaining it has been adversely impacted ...