Federal regulators waived a rule Wednesday that was causing airlines to fly nearly empty planes just to avoid losing takeoff and landing rights at major airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said it would suspend the rule through May 31 to help airlines that are canceling flights because of the new virus outbreak. The FAA assigns Read more about US Rule Waiver Will Reduce Empty Planes During Virus Outbreak (after in EU) and then closes US airspace to EU flights after blaming EU for Corona[…]

Named Load Value Injection, or LVI for short, this is a new class of theoretical attacks against Intel CPUs. While the attack has been deemed only a theoretical threat, Intel has released firmware patches to mitigate attacks against current CPUs, and fixes will be deployed at the hardware (silicon design) level in future generations. A Read more about Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks, allows information injection[…]

Web researcher David Eade found and reported CVE-2020-8987 to Avast: this is a trio of blunders that, when combined, can be exploited by a snooper to silently intercept and tamper with an AntiTrack user’s connections to even the most heavily secured websites. This is because when using AntiTrack, your web connections are routed through the Read more about Avast’s and AVG AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping[…]

In fact, the marketing database also contained some subscribers’ requests to block or unblock access to X-rated and gambling websites, unique ID numbers of stolen cellphones, and records of whichever site they were visiting before arriving at the Virgin Media website. This is according to British infosec shop Turgensec, which discovered the poorly secured Virgin Read more about FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses and more[…]

Over the past few years, owners of cars with keyless start systems have learned to worry about so-called relay attacks, in which hackers exploit radio-enabled keys to steal vehicles without leaving a trace. Now it turns out that many millions of other cars that use chip-enabled mechanical keys are also vulnerable to high-tech theft. A Read more about Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys[…]

Based on Google data, two in five of Android users worldwide may no longer be receiving updates, and while these devices won’t immediately have problems, without security support there is an increased risk to the user. Our latest tests have shown how such phones and tablets, including handsets still available to buy from online marketplaces Read more about More than one billion Android devices at risk of malware threats, no longer being updated[…]

Virgin Media, one of the UK’s biggest ISPs, on Thursday admitted it accidentally spilled 900,000 of its subscribers’ personal information onto the internet via a poorly secured database. The cableco said it “incorrectly configured” a storage system so that at least one miscreant was able to access it and potentially siphon off customer records. The Read more about Virgin broadband ISP spills 900,000 punters’ records into wrong hands from insecure database[…]

Microsoft reckons 0.5 per cent of Azure Active Directory accounts as used by Office 365 are compromised every month. The Window giant’s director of identity security, Alex Weinert, and IT identity and access program manager Lee Walker revealed the figures at the RSA conference last month in San Francisco. “About a half of a per Read more about Enable MFA: 1.2 million Azure Active Directory (Office 365) accounts compromised every month, reckons Microsoft[…]

An error in chipset read-only memory (ROM) could allow attackers to compromise platform encryption keys and steal sensitive information. Intel has thanked Positive Technologies experts for their discovery of a vulnerability in Intel CSME. Most Intel chipsets released in the last five years contain the vulnerability in question. By exploiting vulnerability CVE-2019-0090, a local attacker Read more about Unfixable vulnerability in Intel CSME allows crypto key stealing and local access to files[…]

The European Commission has told its staff to start using Signal, an end-to-end-encrypted messaging app, in a push to increase the security of its communications. The instruction appeared on internal messaging boards in early February, notifying employees that “Signal has been selected as the recommended application for public instant messaging.” The app is favored by privacy Read more about EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app[…]