Privacy International Today, the Constitutional Court of South Africa in a historic judgment declared that bulk interception by the South African National Communications Centre is unlawful and invalid. The judgment is a confirmation of the …
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ZDNet Trucking and freight transportation logistics company Forward Air said a recent ransomware attack left a dent of $7.5 million in its Q4 financial results. The sum was described as a loss of revenue from its LTL …
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ZDNet The vast majority of consumers have a poor understanding of data privacy issues yet think they are proactive in protecting themselves, according to a survey of US and UK residents. More than 83% of …
The Register ESET researchers say they have found a lightweight strain of malware that targets multiple OSes and has hit supercomputers, an ISP, and other organisations. Nicknamed Kobalos, the software nasty is said to be …
The Hacker News New details have emerged about a vast network of rogue extensions for Chrome and Edge browsers that were found to hijack clicks to links in search results pages to arbitrary URLs, including …
Over a Dozen Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google Search Results for Millions Read More »
Ars Technica Huawei is China’s—and formerly the world’s—largest smartphone vendor, and over the past 18 months, it learned an important lesson: the company can’t rely on the US supply chain. In 2019, the US government banned US …
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Ars Technica The South African Revenue Service ran into a big problem this month: Adobe Flash stopped working on January 12, 2021, and the agency (still) hadn’t migrated all of its e-filing forms from Flash …
Flash is dead—but South Africa didn’t get the memo Read More »
Ars Technica Network security provider SonicWall said on Monday that hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in one of the devices it sells. The security flaw resides in the Secure Mobile Access 100 series, …
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The Register The US court system has banned the electronic submission of legal documents in sensitive cases out of concern that Russian hackers have compromised the filing system. Full article
Bleeping Computer Washington’s State Auditor office has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information in 1.6 million employment claims. The Office of the Washington State Auditor (“SAO”) states that they suffered a data …
Data breach exposes 1.6 million Washington unemployment claims Read More »
9to5Linux The Debian Project released today a new Linux kernel security update for its stable Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” operating system series to address several vulnerabilities and some bugs. The new Linux kernel update for …
New Debian Buster Linux Kernel Security Update Fixes 11 Vulnerabilities Read More »
The Register UK Research and Innovation, the British government’s science and research organisation, has temporarily turned off a couple of its web-facing services after an apparent ransomware attack. Full article