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Hundreds charged in internet's biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op's home
23 kids saved, alleged scumbag-in-chief already in jail
US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.…
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Sure is quiet from Adobe. No security fixes this month? Great job. Oh no, wait, what's that stampede sound...
If you thought Reader, Acrobat, Experience Manager were skipping October's Patch Tuesday, think again
Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it's roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.…
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Ye olde Blue Screen of Death is back – this time, a bad Symantec update is to blame
The wrong kind of intrusion protection
Updated Symantec has acknowledged an issue with an update to its Endpoint Protection Client that causes a Windows kernel exception after users this morning came down with a mild case of Blue Screen of Death.…
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Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)
All it takes is -u#-1... Wh%& t#e fsck*?
It's only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.…
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Apple insists it's totally not doing that thing it wasn't accused of: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent – just people's IP addresses
Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown
Responding to concern that its Safari browser's defense against malicious websites may reveal the IP addresses of some users' devices to China-based Tencent, Apple insists that Safari doesn't reveal a different bit of information, the webpages Safari users visit.…
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Pitney Bowes: Can we be frank? Ransomware has borked our dead-tree post systems
Venerable stamp-machine maker stalled by server infection
Pitney Bowes, the US stamping meter maker, has been infected with ransomware, leaving customers unable to top-up their equipment with credit nor access the corporate web store.…
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Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing
Cos that's always gone really well...
Exclusive The University of Nottingham has announced it will outsource some of its IT operations in a long-awaited shakeup of the department.…
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Imperva cloud firewall pwned, D-Link bug uncovered – plus more
Including: Visual Studio Code debug hole found
Roundup It's time for another security news catch-up.…
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Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes
'If only you could see what I've seen through your eyes'...
A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived by analyzing geographic details in an eye reflection captured in one of her social media photos.…
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Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos
Haben sie nicht von dem Streisand-Effekt gehört?
Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that reported them to criminal prosecutors over allegedly illegal malware exports.…
