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Week in security: Dubai Police use Google Glass facial recognition, Bugzilla gets bugged and 'Unpatchable' USB exploit lands on GitHub

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Dairy Queen hit by card data stealing malware

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Future malware might offer real functions to avoid detection

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European ATMs under malware attack

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Malware

Week in security: Dubai Police use Google Glass facial recognition, Bugzilla gets bugged and 'Unpatchable' USB exploit lands on GitHub

Malware

Week in security: Dubai Police use Google Glass facial recognition, Bugzilla gets bugged and 'Unpatchable' USB exploit lands on GitHub

This week in security, we covered a full range of privacy and malware, with controversial plans to equip police officers with facial recognition packed Google Glass in Dubai, and the BadUSB malware finding its way on to GitHub.

Alan Martin • 10 Oct 2014 • 3 min. read

Malware

Dairy Queen hit by card data stealing malware

Malware

Dairy Queen hit by card data stealing malware

Dairy Queen has become the latest company to be hit by payment card stealing malware, reports the Wall Street Journal. The breach is said to have affected 395 of its 4,500 American locations.

Alan Martin • 10 Oct 2014 • 1 min. read

Malware

Future malware might offer real functions to avoid detection

Malware

Future malware might offer real functions to avoid detection

Malware may begin to offer genuinely helpful functionality in the future, in order to "fly under the radar" and fake legitimacy before striking, according to Professor Giovanni Vigna from the University of California.

Alan Martin • 09 Oct 2014 • 2 min. read

Malware

European ATMs under malware attack

Malware

European ATMs under malware attack

At least 50 cash machines in Eastern Europe have been targeted by malware that allows the hacker to withdraw up to 40 notes at once without a credit or debit card to hand, Computer Weekly reports.

Alan Martin • 09 Oct 2014 • 1 min. read

Previously undiscovered Bugzilla exploit patched

Bugzilla, the open source bug reporting and tracking tool used by Mozilla and many popular Linux distributions, has had a potentially damaging security flaw patched, reports Brian Krebs on his Krebs on Security website.

Alan Martin • 08 Oct 2014 • 1 min. read

Malware

Manual fixes to USB malware revealed... with a catch

Malware

Manual fixes to USB malware revealed... with a catch

Since the BadUSB malware was released to the public with hopes of forcing a fix, a solution has emerged from the researchers who posted the code, but the fix is definitely not without its problems.

Alan Martin • 08 Oct 2014 • 2 min. read

Privacy

Google Glass facial recognition used by Dubai Police force

Privacy

Google Glass facial recognition used by Dubai Police force

The police force of Dubai will soon be equipped with crime-fighting face recognition technology via Google Glass, according to Reuters. The software, "developed by Dubai police would enable a connection between the wearer and a database of wanted people," Reuters reports.

Alan Martin • 07 Oct 2014 • 1 min. read

Cybercrime

Celebgate: Nude photo hack continues as first male celebrity targeted

Cybercrime

Celebgate: Nude photo hack continues as first male celebrity targeted

The son of American wrestler Hulk Hogan has been the latest celebrity to fall victim to theft and publication of naked pictures on the internet, according to The Huffington Post.

Alan Martin • 07 Oct 2014 • 1 min. read

Malware

'Unpatchable' USB exploit posted to GitHub

Malware

'Unpatchable' USB exploit posted to GitHub

Techspot reports that a another USB exploit has been discovered by a pair of researchers who have "thrown caution to the wind by posting code for a similar attack on GitHub."

Alan Martin • 06 Oct 2014 • 1 min. read