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Survey of 127 routers' vulnerabilities: Remote workers warned over security flaws

According to the study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication (FKIE) in Germany, 46 routers did not get any security updates within the last year, leaving remote workers open to attack.

Premier League club targeted in $125 million BEC scam, accused extradited from Dubai

A Nigerian national, accused of trying to steal $125 million from a Premier League club as well as attempting to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through BEC frauds, was extradited from Dubai.

Biggest-ever packets-per-second DDoS attack hits large European bank

The attack generated 809 million packets per second (Mpps), making it the largest-ever DDoS attack in terms of packet per second (pps) recorded by Akamai.

Criminals develop DDoS protection to stay online when rivals or law enforcement attack

Security researchers have discovered a newly launched DDoS protection filter mechanism dubbed EndGame advertised on the dark web community forum Dread.

High-severity bugs patched in Chrome, Firefox browsers

Google has introduced multiple security fixes for the desktop edition of its Chrome browser and Mozilla has also done the same for Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release.

Google rolls out updates for iOS apps and online services to support WebAuthn-capable security keys

The updates mean it should now be possible to sign in by tapping a key to the back of an iPhone, using protocols from near-field communication.

UK Armed Forces Cyber Regiment launched to protect frontline operations

The 13th Signal Regiment will operate in the UK and overseas, where they will provide ‘digital armour’ around personnel operating overseas, giving commanders and their soldiers secure communications.

Hackers steal data from nuclear missile contractor

The hackers claimed to have stolen top-secret nuclear missile data, encrypted hard drives, and began leaking documents from Westech International, a sub-contractor for Northrup Grumman.

Industry experts warn of new Covid-19 scams including NHS Test & Trace scheme exploit

A new SMS-phishing attack has been used to fake NHS text messages - typically to link to a malicious site and ask a person to share personal information that can be used to commit identity fraud.

Smart cars vulnerable to hack that could enable ‘remote control’

A memory corruption vulnerability in GNU libc for ARMv7 was discovered amid recent research from Cisco's Customer Experience Assessment & Penetration Team (CX APT).

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