Insurers are waking up to the legal profession as the soft underbelly’ of cyber security. Analysis of the website of Mossack Fonseca, the firm at the centre of the Panama…
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Microsoft sues US government over secret data requests
Microsoft is suing the US government over the right to tell its users when federal agencies want access to private data. Dave Lee, North America technology reporter It says keeping…
Optional Windows update aims to protect Microsoft wireless mice against hijacking
The patch filters wireless mouse input to make sure no rogue keystrokes are passed to computers. By Lucian Constantin Alongside its batch of mandatory security patches released Tuesday, Microsoft also…
Airbus boarded by 12 nation-state, crimeware 'breaches' every year
State-sponsored hackers will do ‘everything’ to get in, says CISO. Darren Pauli Airbus chief security officer Stephane Lenco says the company is hit by successful state-sponsored and ransomware attacks a…
The ransomware that knows where you live
A widely distributed scam email that quoted people’s postal addresses links to a dangerous form of ransomware, according to a security researcher. Andrew Brandt, of US firm Blue Coat, contacted…
Adobe preps emergency Flash patch for bug hackers are exploiting
As if the world needed yet another reason to finally flush Flash forever. Iain Thomson Adobe will this week issue an out-of-band patch for Flash after spotting a critical flaw…