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UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order

by Connor Jones / 10h
Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim The UK's Home Office refuses to either confirm or deny reports that it recently ordered Apple to create a backdoor allowing the government to access any user's cloud data.…

UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks

by Connor Jones / 15h
Freshly minted organization aims to take the guesswork out of incident severity for insurers and policy holders A world-first organization assembled to categorize the severity of cybersecurity incidents is up and running in the UK following a year-long incubation period.…

Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access

Musk's DOGE faces lawsuit over access
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91by Brandon Vigliarolo and Jessica Lyons / 1d
Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented' Updated Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has had its access to US Treasury payment systems restricted - at least temporarily - following a lawsuit from advocacy groups and unions.…

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Feb 5, 2025

Robocallers who phoned the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble

Telnyx fined for illegal robocalls
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by Iain Thomson / 2d
Don't laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator In its first enforcement action of the Trump presidency, the FCC has voted to propose fining Telnyx $4,492,500 – after scammers pretending to be the watchdog's staff started calling actual FCC staffers via the VoIP telco.…

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Linux 6.14 supports Rust drivers
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by Thomas Claburn / 2d
Some worry multiple languages will make it harder to maintain this open source uber-project, others disagree Updated Developers trying to add Rust code to the Linux kernel continue to face opposition from kernel maintainers who believe using multiple languages is an unwelcome and risky complication.…

DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has 'read-only' access to US Treasury payment system

Musk's government payment changes raise concerns
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by Jessica Lyons / 2d
CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing through IT for Elon Musk's DOGE The US Treasury has revealed Tom Krause – the chief exec of Citrix and Netscaler owner Cloud Software Group – has "read-only" access to a vital federal government payment system that disburses trillions of dollars annually.…

Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge

Netgear patches critical router vulnerabilities
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by Connor Jones / 2d
International security squads all focus on stopping baddies busting in through routers, IoT kit etc Netgear is advising customers to upgrade their firmware after it patched two critical vulnerabilities affecting multiple routers.…

Feb 4, 2025

Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

2 TTPs
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29by Iain Thomson / 3d
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CVE-2024-56161
Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD's security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon's behavior as they wish – but also demonstrated this by producing a microcode patch that makes the chips always output 4 when asked for a random number.…

Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years

Malicious Go package exploits supply chain
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by Connor Jones / 3d
Researcher says ecosystem's auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years.…

US accuses Canadian math prodigy of $65M crypto scheme

Canadian charged in $65M crypto hack
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20by Jude Karabus / 3d
Suspect, still at large, said to back concept that 'code is law' New York feds today unsealed a five-count criminal indictment charging a 22-year-old Canadian math prodigy with exploiting vulnerabilities in two decentralized finance protocols, allegedly using them to fraudulently siphon around $65 million from investors in the platforms.…

Cyberattack on NHS causes hospitals to miss cancer care targets

Impact (Enterprise TA0040)
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by Connor Jones / 3d
Healthcare chiefs say impact will persist for months NHS execs admit that last year's cyberattack on hospitals in Wirral, northwest England, continues to "significantly" impact waiting times for cancer treatments, and suspect this will last for "months."…

Feb 3, 2025

UK govt must learn fast and let failing projects die young

UK public sector urged to adopt AI
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by Lindsay Clark / 3d
Tackle longstanding issues around productivity, cyber resilience and public sector culture, advises spending watchdog The UK's government spending watchdog has called on the current administration to make better use of technology to kickstart the misfiring economy and ensure better delivery public services amid tightened budgets.…

Why digital resilience is critical to banks

by Mohan Veloo, Field CTO, APCJ, F5 / 4d
Going beyond the traditional “Prevent, Detect, and Respond” framework and taking a proactive approach Partner Content In today's highly connected and technology-driven world, digital resilience is not just a competitive advantage for banks - it is a necessity.…

TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe

DHS investigates TSA facial recognition
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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 4d
Senators ask, Homeland Security watchdog answers: Is it worth the money? The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has launched an audit of the Transportation Security Administration's use of facial recognition technology at US airports, following criticism from lawmakers and privacy advocates.…

2 officers bailed as anti-corruption unit probes data payouts to N Irish cops

by Connor Jones / 4d
Investigating compensation to police whose sensitive info was leaked in 2023 The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has bailed two officers after they were arrested as part of a fraud investigation related to the payments to cops whose sensitive data was mistakenly published in 2023.…

Feb 2, 2025

Privacy Commissioner warns the ‘John Smiths’ of the world can acquire ‘digital doppelgangers’

by Simon Sharwood / 4d
Australian government staff mixed medical info for folk who share names and birthdays Australia’s privacy commissioner has found that government agencies down under didn’t make enough of an effort to protect data describing “digital doppelgangers” – people who share a name and date of birth and whose government records sometimes contain data describing other people.…

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