Security News

Influential cypherpunk and crypto-anarchist Tim May dies aged 67
2018-12-17 15:50

One-time Intel boffin anticipated rise of Bitcoin and 'dossier society' Obit Friends of Timothy May have confirmed that the former Intel engineer and co-founder of the Cypherpunks mailing list...

New Mac Malware Combines Open-Source Backdoor and Crypto-Miner
2018-12-10 16:04

A recently discovered piece of malware targeting Mac systems is a combination of two open-source programs, Malwarebytes security researchers warn.  read more

Wow, what a lovely early Christmas present for Australians: A crypto-busting super-snoop law passes just in time
2018-12-07 00:30

Ring in the new year with some of those backdoors, developers Congratulations, Australia: somehow after chaotic scenes in parliament, the government managed to secure after-the-bell passage for...

CAT of seven TLS: BEAST-style attack breaks web crypto
2018-12-01 01:00

Luckily for all, it's a local threat Crypto boffins have found a way to exploit side channel information to downgrade most of the current TLS implementations, thanks to ongoing support for...

Unbound releases open source blockchain-crypto-mpc library for blockchain developers
2018-11-29 03:30

Unbound brings to the blockchain community a security solution via open source. The company’s blockchain-crypto-mpc library is available for free on Git Hub. It’s an open source library for...

Check your repos... Crypto-coin-stealing code sneaks into fairly popular NPM lib (2m downloads per week)
2018-11-26 20:58

Node.js package tried to plunder Bitcoin wallets A widely used Node.js code library in NPM's warehouse of repositories was altered to include crypto-coin-stealing malware. The lib in question,...

His phone went dark, then $1m was sucked out in SIM-swap crypto-heist
2018-11-26 12:00

A 21-year-old allegedly SIM-swapped Silicon Valley execs’ phones to steal cryptocurrency, including one man's $1m tuition fund for his kids.

Australia's 'snoop minister' wants crypto-busting law probe wound up, proposals back into parliament
2018-11-21 01:23

Dutton busts out the ol' razzle-dazzle of terrorists, encrypted chat and hand-wringing Australia's home affairs minister Peter Dutton wants the parliamentary inquiry into his proposed...

MIT to Oz: Crypto-busting laws risk banning security tests
2018-11-16 02:17

I see the red team and I want it painted black Australia's government's crypto-busting legislation risks blocking security research, a leading Internet policy boffin has warned.…

Irony meters explode as WordPress GDPR tool hacked, cell network hack shenanigans, crypto-backdoors, etc...
2018-11-10 08:08

Loads of bonus infosec news for your weekend Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…