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Bank of England to U.K. banks: Your tech needs a Plan B

The bank Bank of England, together with the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority, has cautioned U.K. banks to prepare for cyber attacks and technical failures.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)

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Malware authors' continued use of stolen certificates isn't all bad news

A new malware campaign that uses two stolen code-signing certificates shows that such certificates continue to be popular among malware authors. But there is a positive side to malware authors’ use of stolen certificates.
More on Virus Bulletin’s blog.

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Brave Move Good For Tor And Privacy

The Brave browser has introduced the ability to turn on Tor in private tabs, a move that is good for users’ privacy and for Tor itself.
More on my blog at Forbes.

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Necurs update reminds us that the botnet cannot be ignored

The operators of the Necurs botnet, best known for being one of the most prolific spam botnets of the past few years, have pushed out updates to its client, which provide some important lessons about why malware infections matter.
More on Virus Bulletin’s blog.

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Phishing campaign has an extra payload for business networks

A new malicious spam campaign that has been targeting Internet users in the U.K. serves as an important example of how banking malware targets business as well as home users.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)

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GDPR tool for helping consumers exposes hurdles as well

The GDPR doesn’t mandate how data requests should be made, but it does say that organizations handling personal data should be prepared to handle the requests. One would be right to wonder whether companies are as prepared as they should be.
Read more on Payment Source. (Note: subscription wall.)

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Public service announcement: links to blog posts I've written

I have been doing a lot of security blogging recently, at Virus Bulletin, but also at other places. I will collect these articles here on this blog, with the permalink going to the respective articles. If you care about the things I write, you may want to add the RSS feed to your RSS reader.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you’d like me to do some writing for your blog or website.
(And please bear with me while I will add blog posts I’ve written in the past three months.)