A new report published in Nature’s Scientific Reports section shows how the location data available from mobile devices can be used as a virtual fingerprint to identify individual people regardless of whether the data is ‘anonymized’.
Ministry of Justice consultation on compulsory DPA audits for NHS bodies
The UK Ministry of Justice has issued a new consultation paper aimed at NHS data controllers asking for views on whether the ICO should be able to impose a data protection audit on NHS bodies without their consent.
Pirated software carries malware payload that can cost billions
Pirated software may carry an ostensibly small price tag compared to the real thing, but it often also carries something else: ride-along malware that will cost consumers 1.5 billion hours and $22 billion this year in identifying, repairing and recover…
Advanced vSkimmer botnet targets card payment terminals
The next evolution of credit card payment details extraction has hit Russian underground hacking forums in the form of the vSkimmer malware, a botnet that directly targets card payment terminals using Windows.
Anonymous claims Mossad hack; experts not convinced
This weekend saw the release of around 35,000 names and other details, allegedly including Mossad agents, stolen by Anonymous and following a warning that OpIsrael phase 2 – designed to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet – would commence on 7 April.
Bleeding Edge Kali Linux
We’ve been busy this week, still behind on our emails, but going strong with Kali development. We packaged some new tools which were pointed out by the community as missing, such as inguma, arachni, bully, lbd, uniscan, automater, as well as star…
Details of the latest Sykipot exploits revealed
Sykipot malware, often tied to a Chinese origin, has been used extensively over the last few years to target primarily US defense organizations. Now the latest zero-day exploits used by the gang have been revealed.
Seoul cautious in blaming North Korea for massive cyberattack
South Korea, the globe’s most-wired country and one of its biggest tech hubs, has been hit with a wave of attacks on major media and banks, freezing networks and broadcast infrastructure and rendering a swath of ATMs, mobile banking, websites and payme…
Privacy rules for the Police National Database protected sex offender Jimmy Savile
A critical review of the Jimmy Savile case, who now posthumously has hundreds of sexual abuse allegations against him, suggests that a combination of his celebrity status and police privacy rules combined to protect him for decades.
Scam warning: Facebook Black is back
The opportunity to change from Facebook blue to a different color is not a new scam, but there’s a new one doing the rounds right now: “I Totally Just Added The Brand New Facebook Black.”