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BlackBerry 10 passes US defence department tests
Military happy Z10 and Q10 allow chat on the Q.T.
BlackBerry has secured access to a critical market – the US military – for its new operating system and handsets and version 10 of its Enterprise Service software.…
IBM open sources new approach to crypto
Work on files – without decrypting them
A group of IBM researchers has released a Github project that implements a homomorphic encryption system – a way to work on encrypted data in a file without first decrypting the whole file.…
Java applets run wild inside Notes
'Full compromise' possible
Attackers with a desire to rummage around inside the PCs of Notes users can do so merely by sending HTML emails containing a Java applet or JavaScript, IBM has admitted in a security advisory.…
'Chinese' attack sucks secrets from US defence contractor
Comment Crew blamed for three-year attack on QinetiQ
Just when it looked like US-China relations couldn’t get any more frosty, news has emerged that defence contractor QinetiQ suffered a massive breach of classified data over three years which may have leaked advanced military secrets to the infamous PLA-linked hacking gang Comment Crew.…
Gaming app ENSLAVES punter PCs in Bitcoin mining ring
Some secret software to go with your deathmatch, sir?
A competitive gaming company has admitted that for two weeks in April its software client was hijacking league members' PCs to mine Bitcoins.…
US Labor Dept website serving malware to innocent visitors
Blag bears signature of notorious Chinese DeepPanda
The US Department of Labor's website has been hacked and malicious code stuck behind the scenes, security tools firm AlienVault says.…
Mozilla accuses Gamma of dressing up dictators' spyware as Firefox
Maker of spooks' fave FinSpy served cease-and-desist
Firefox-maker Mozilla claims spook supplier Gamma International disguises its spyware as the popular web browser - and wants it to stop.…
Red faces as Pentagon leases Chinese satellite
It's ok, we've added 'additional transmission security'
US lawmakers are up in arms after it emerged that the Pentagon has leased a Chinese commercial satellite to support non-classified communications with its African bases.…
Cameras leak credentials, live video
D-Link scrambles upgrade, Vivotek silent says Core Sec
D-Link and Vivotek have submitted their entries for “dumbest security vulnerability of 2013”, with Core Security turning up a variety of daft bugs in their IP cameras, including hard-coded backdoor passwords.…
Ultra-hackable Google Glass could be a security nightmare
Easy root access opens spyware floodgates
Google's high-tech Glass headsets might be a gadget enthusiast's dream, but in their current form they're far too vulnerable to malicious hacking, according to one developer who has had access to the devices.…
Crap computers in a crap box: Smart-meter blackouts risk to UK
Sniff a device's wireless, pwn a power plant, warns Brit biz
Analysis You'd be forgiven for thinking this is the plot of a Saturday night BBC2 drama: hackers tinkering with smart electricity meters deliberately cut the power to whole neighbourhoods.…
Apache attack drives traffic to malware
Blackhole redirect served by modified daemon binary
A security researcher is warning that an attack on the Apache Web server is increasingly showing up in the wild, and has published a free Python tool to check their configurations.…
NATO proclaimed winner of Locked Shield online wargame
Games without frontiers, war without tears
NATO has – not surprisingly – been named the winner of the Locked Shield online wargames held last week at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia.…
Chinese cyber-spook crew back in business, say security watchers
Who can tell the spies from the robbers?
The widely feared Chinese cyber-espionage crew known as APT1 is back in business two month after a high profile report that lifted the lid off its activities, according to security researchers.…
Serial killer hack threat to gas pipes, traffic lights, power plants
'You could shut down the electricity grid' warns security biz
Analysis Medical systems to traffic light boxes are apparently wide open to hackers thanks to a lack of authentication checks in equipment exposed to the internet.…
Japan forgot data wipe on ship sold to Pyongyang
Former coast guard ship's navigation records reach NORKS
The Japanese government's data protection policies have been called into question after it emerged that a decommissioned coast guard vessel was sold to a pro-North Korea organisation without any checks as to whether key data on board was first deleted.…
Crims take to Facebook to flog ZeuS kits
Dark networks meet social networks
Not content with hawking their wares in underground forums and other insalubrious parts of the darknet, criminals are now advertising their wares on Facebook, says RSA.…