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Plus: What? No. No way. People would just do that? Go on Tor and use it to commit crimes? In Brief  Exploit code for the pair of nasty vulnerabilities in F5 Networks’ BIG-IP application delivery controllers is now doing the rounds, so make sure you’re all patched up.… READ MORE HERE…

Tight-lipped bank has fixed the weirdness – but not said why it happened Barclays Bank appears to have been using no less than the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine as a “content distribution network” to serve up a Javascript file.… READ MORE HERE…

No organisation is immune: Nearly nine in ten experienced these attacks last year Sponsored  Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Email Account Compromise (EAC) are the most expensive cyber threats facing businesses around the globe. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reports that both scams have resulted in worldwide losses of $26 billion since 2016 – with $1.7 billion in the last year alone.… READ MORE HERE…

Not to worry, there are only *searches* several thousand devices apparently exposed online Network administrators are urged to patch their F5 BIG-IP application delivery controllers following the disclosure of a pair of critical remote takeover bugs.… READ MORE HERE…

Best get updating pronto, folks The Apache Project’s popular Guacamole open-source remote desktop software contained vulns allowing remote attackers to steal login creds and hijack targeted machines, researchers have said.… READ MORE HERE…

Continental capers lead to 750 UK arrests French and Dutch police have boasted of infiltrating and killing off encrypted chat service EncroChat, alleging it was used by organised crime gangs to plot murders, sell drugs, launder criminal profits and more.… READ MORE HERE…

Redmond also praised for blocking malware control systems on its clouds Microsoft has emitted a pair of security patches to address flaws in Windows 10 that can be potentially exploited by miscreants to hijack PCs. A victim simply needs to be tricked into opening a file containing a specially crafted image on a vulnerable system.… READ MORE HERE…

Focus on usability to avoid buyer’s remorse, Echoworx advises Sponsored  In its raw form, email isn’t the most secure channel for carrying national secrets. It was originally designed for plain text, and plenty of modern mainstream email systems still don’t support encryption out of the box. So if you’re someone like Edward Snowden, you’ll want to make darn sure that your correspondent knows how to use encryption.… READ MORE HERE…

Legislation to root out subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces following year of civil unrest China’s mainland government has enforced a sweeping national security law in Hong Kong, increasing its hold on the territory in what HK’s chief exec, Carrie Lam, has described as the “most important development” in the former British colony’s history since its handover.… READ MORE HERE…

Legislation to root out subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces following year of civil unrest China’s mainland government has enforced a sweeping national security law in Hong Kong, increasing its hold on the territory in what HK’s chief exec, Carrie Lam, has described as the “most important development” in the former British colony’s history since its handover.… READ MORE HERE…