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Nearly half of hospital Windows systems still vulnerable to RDP bugs
by Danny Bradbury Almost half of connected hospital devices are still exposed to the wormable BlueKeep Windows flaw nearly a year after it was announced, according to a report released this week. The report, called 2020 Vision: A Review of Major IT & Cyber...
Firefox 73.0.1 fixes crashes, blank web pages and DRM niggles
by John E Dunn Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to version 73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems and crashes, including when running on Linux machines. The list of issues is surprisingly long for a point...
Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account
by Lisa Vaas Leery of losing microseconds of your life by using two-factor authentication (2FA) to keep your stuff safe from hackers? Alas for you, but hurray for security. Bit by bit, the Internet of Things (IoT) is getting a wee bit more secure: last week, Google...
Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage
by Lisa Vaas Recognize anybody you know? (Anonymized) photos leaked from PhotoSquared’s unsecured S3 bucket IMAGE: vpnMentor No, likely not. No thanks to the leaky photo app they dribbled out of for that, though. After coming across thousands of photos seeping...
Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco
by Lisa Vaas The EU has been itching to regulate the internet, and that’s where Facebook has been this week: in Germany, asking to be regulated, but in a new, bespoke manner. In fact, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels right on time for the European...
WordPress plugin hole could have allowed attackers to wipe websites
by Danny Bradbury A WordPress plugin with over 100,000 active installations had a hole which coould have allowed unauthorised attackers to wipe its users’ blogs clean, it emerged this week. ThemeGrill is a WordPress theme developer that publishes its own Demo...
OpenSSH eases admin hassles with FIDO U2F token support
by John E Dunn OpenSSH version 8.2 is out and the big news is that the world’s most popular remote management software now supports authentication using any FIDO (Fast Identity Online) U2F hardware token. SSH offers a range of advanced security features but it...
Malware and HTTPS – a growing love affair
by Paul Ducklin If you’re a regular Naked Security reader, you’ll know that we’ve been fans of HTTPS for years. In fact, it’s nearly nine years since we published an open letter to Facebook urging the social networking giant to adopt HTTPS...
Council returns to using pen and paper after cyberattack
by John E Dunn Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return. The first public sign of trouble appeared on the morning of Saturday,...
