Collaborate Disseminate
Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world’s music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from … Continue reading Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture
Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that he conned.… Continue reading Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim
On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with wor… Continue reading Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency
SK Telecom’s epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea’s government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.… Continue reading There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM
PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! APAC in Brief Google and Apple last week started to allow developers of mobile applications to distribute their wares … Continue reading Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan
PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more Infosec In Brief Google will soon end its “Dark Web Report”, an email service that alerts users when their personal information appears on the intern… Continue reading Google sends Dark Web Report to its dead services graveyard
Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting UPDATED A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a p… Continue reading NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift
Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as “a ruthless terrorist organization” faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illega… Continue reading ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US
Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls WatchGuard is in emergency patch mode after confirming that a critical remote code execution flaw in its Firebox firewalls is under active attack.… Continue reading WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack
Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people The University of Sydney is ringing around thousands of current and former staff and students after admitting attackers helped themselves to historical personal data stashed inside o… Continue reading Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo