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In a release set to worry many customers 46% of companies surveyed in Ireland indicated they would not disclose a data breach to impacted customers or suppliers. Ward Solutions, an Irish security provider, has revealed the results of a new survey that found almost half of Irish businesses wouldn’t disclose a data security breach, this is despite 33% of Irish businesses admitting that they have suffered a data breach in the past 12 months. View...

A year ago, car-security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek must have driven Fiat Chrysler into fits: they wirelessly took control of a Jeep Cherokee from 10 miles away, including its brakes, accelerator, radio, horn and windshield wipers. Fiat Chrysler went on to say that 10 of its vehicles were vulnerable to the hack, which had been carried out via a cellular network that leveraged the vehicles’ UConnect entertainment system. The researchers’ demo led to the recall of...

Juniper has fired off fixes for eight security vulnerabilities. The company has been running Junos OS through the security mill since late last year, when its now-notorious backdoor hit the headlines. Junos OS systems running either generic routing encapsulation (GRE) or IP-in-IP (IPIP) tunnels are vulnerable to a kernel crash triggered by a crafted ICMP packet. The resulting denial of service attack, CVE-2016-1277, is rated high, and present in a bunch of Junos OS revisions...

A minion in accounting receives an email from the chief executive requesting transfer of funds to a company – and it needs to be done yesterday, or there will be dire consequences. The chief executive is uncontactable, and it seems legitimate – what does said minion do? Well, usually they will raise the matter with their boss who coincidentally has received a copy of the request, so consider it done. Symantec calls this the business...

Samsung SDS has invested in UK cybersecurity startup Darktrace, along with Korean blockchain platform maker Blocko, for new growth. Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Electronics, has announced investment in UK-based cyber security firm Darktrace. It is also investing in Korean blockchain platform company Blocko, it said, with both aimed to retain "leading-edge technology" and drive growth. The investments were through a firm that Samsung SDS holds a 99 percent stake in, and...

Security holes don't always originate in relatively recent bugs... sometimes, they can stem from code written in an entirely different era. Researchers at Vectra Networks have discovered a roughly 20-year-old flaw in Windows Print Spooler (which oversees the printing process) that lets attackers slip malware on to a PC. As the spooler doesn't verify that a printer's drivers are legitimate when you plug the hardware in, it's possible for attackers to install maliciously-coded drivers thorough...

Drupal is calling on its users to patch a dangerous remote code execution hole that can let attackers easily hijack sites. The content management system has some 15 million downloads, compared to WordPress on 140 million and Joomla with 30 million, but is used on big ticket and business sites including nine percent of the world's 10,000 most popular sites. The remote code execution hole lies in Drupal modules used by about 14,000 websites. "The...

Google is continuing the expansion of Android Pay in Asia Pacific after the mobile payments service went live in Australia today, its most significant launch in the region to date. Android Pay initially landed in Asia with a launch in Singapore last month, and today it is in Australia, which has a population of around 22 million people. According to data from Kantar, Android represented around 64 percent of smartphones sold between March and May...

Everyone, at some level, is exploring or considering public cloud options, for a range of functions, from automating IT functions to enhancing business processes. However, these efforts have yet to be bound up into a cohesive business strategy, and many executives are unsure if their IT departments are up to providing the guidance that is needed. The survey of 500 executives, published by Softchoice, finds a lack of strategic thinking when it comes to cloud...

Lebanese-Canadian developer Nadim Kobeissi has taken aim at WhatsApp, accusing it of fudging about why calls to Saudi numbers don't work. In a long post at GitHub Gist, Kobeissi (best known for his work on secure chat app Cryptocat) says the blocks seem to be in WhatsApp, even though the company claims Saudi networks are stopping calls by blocking the handshake. “Alice is unable to receive or initiate WhatsApp calls, even though she is in...