Security News > 2018 > June

'Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ': Infosec boffins talk surveillance capitalism
2018-06-04 10:11

Cambridge Uni powwow broods on Facebook, Wannacry Privacy of medical data and the machinations of surveillance capitalism were under the spotlight at a Cambridge University symposium last week.…

Going to Infosec Europe? Grab yourself a goody bag
2018-06-04 09:01

Use the phrase that pays and grab a bag of goodies for free!

Microsoft reportedly buys GitHub code-sharing service
2018-06-04 07:33

Here's the biggest news of the week: Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub and could announce a deal in likely worth billions of dollars as soon as Monday. For those unaware, GitHub is a...

‘Moore’s Revenge’ is upon us and will make the world weird
2018-06-04 07:29

When everything’s smart, the potential for dumb mistakes becomes enormous Earlier this year I lamented the inevitable death of Moore’s Law - crushed between process node failures and exploits...

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G Suite admins need to RTFM - thousands expose internal emails
2018-06-04 05:55

The manual is confusing, to be fair, but a third of users read it wrong and are dangling data If you're sysadmin of an organisation using Google Groups and G Suite, you need to revisit your...

Thousands of Organizations Expose Sensitive Data via Google Groups
2018-06-04 04:52

Google has issued a warning to G Suite users after researchers discovered that thousands of organizations expose sensitive information through misconfigured Google Groups instances. read more

Week in review: How GDPR affects WHOIS, and what CISOs can learn from Tyrion
2018-06-04 01:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: CIOs are forced to compromise between faster innovation and perfectly working software An independent global survey of...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, a bank heist in Canada, and more
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, and a bank heist in Canada
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

Friday Squid Blogging: Do Cephalopods Contain Alien DNA?
2018-06-01 21:24

Maybe not DNA, but biological somethings. "Cause of Cambrian explosion -- Terrestrial or Cosmic?": Abstract: We review the salient evidence consistent with or predicted by the Hoyle-Wickramasinghe...