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Digicert revokes a raft of web security certificates
July 13, 2020
Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness
July 13, 2020
Better get Grandpa off Windows 7 because zero-day bug in Zoom allows remote code execution on vintage OS
July 13, 2020
Monday review – the hot stories of the week
July 13, 2020
Trump reveals US cyber-attack on Russian election-misdirection troll farms
July 13, 2020
How to make your IT security go beyond your network – and make people your perimeter
July 12, 2020
An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn’t mean it – Amazon
July 11, 2020
Tony Blair tells Russian infosec conference that cross-border infosec policies need more gov intervention
July 10, 2020
TomTom bill bomb: Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year, rages Reg reader
July 10, 2020
Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle
July 10, 2020
FYI: Someone’s scanning gateways, looking for those security holes Citrix told you not to worry too much about
July 9, 2020
How to build a cyber threat intelligence program while cutting through the noise
July 9, 2020
If you haven’t potentially exposed 1000s of customers once again with networking vulns, step forward… Not so fast, Palo Alto Networks
July 9, 2020
Social engineering hacks weaken cybersecurity during the pandemic
July 9, 2020
Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5
July 8, 2020
One surefire way to get the boss’s attention on network security is to get hacked. But there must be a better way?
July 8, 2020
Criminals auction off stolen domain admin credentials for up to £95k. Your bank account details? Barely get £50
July 8, 2020
Mozilla turns off “Firefox Send” following malware abuse reports
July 8, 2020
Citrix tells everyone not to worry too much over its latest security patches. NSA’s former top hacker disagrees
July 8, 2020
Kinda sorta weakened version of EARN IT Act creeps closer
July 8, 2020
Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart
July 7, 2020
Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft’s Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory… to spot malware
July 7, 2020
Company web names hijacked via outdated cloud DNS records
July 7, 2020
Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong’s new national security law
July 7, 2020
Flashy Nigerian Instagram star extradited to US to face BEC charges
July 7, 2020
Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers
July 7, 2020
Want to kill all the weak passwords? This may be the tool for you
July 7, 2020
Your 2.3m Instagram fans won’t stop the FBI… Web star accused of plotting to launder millions from cyber-crime
July 6, 2020
You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK’s backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act
July 6, 2020
Think of a number: A tale of iffy discount codes, supermarket loyalty cards and Hotels.com
July 6, 2020
Three UK: We’re sending you this SMS to warn you not to pay attention to unsolicited texts
July 6, 2020
Boston bans government use of facial recognition
July 6, 2020
Make sure you’ve patched your F5 BIG-IP gear. Exploit code for scary bug pair is so trivial, it fits in a tweet
July 6, 2020
Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a ‘CDN’ for some Javascript
July 3, 2020
Facebook hoaxes back in the spotlight – what to tell your friends
July 3, 2020
Google buys AR smart-glasses company North
July 3, 2020
Fighting BEC and EAC: Why whack-a-mole won’t work
July 3, 2020
F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren’t internet-facing while you ready a patch
July 3, 2020
Holy Guacamole! Researchers find Apache remote desktop software was silently pwnable for snooping on sessions
July 2, 2020
Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now ‘criminal’ EncroChat users are being rounded up
July 2, 2020
Hold off that rush into the July 4 weekend – you may need this: Microsoft patches pwn-by-picture pitfalls in Win 10
July 2, 2020
Users who don’t understand how to encrypt their emails won’t do it
July 2, 2020
MongoDB ransom threats step up from blackmail to full-on wiping
July 2, 2020
Cisco SMB kit harbors cross-site scripting bug: One wrong link click… and that’s your router pwned remotely
July 2, 2020
133m records for sale as fruits of data breach spree keep raining down
July 2, 2020
Microsoft issues critical fixes for booby-trapped images – update now!
July 1, 2020
Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote
July 1, 2020
Details of Beijing’s new Hong Kong security law revealed: Signals end to more than two decades of autonomy
July 1, 2020
Firefox 78 is out – with a mysteriously empty list of security fixes
July 1, 2020
Tune in and watch live right here this week – it’s your email encryption wake-up call
July 1, 2020
Things that happen every four years: Olympic Games, Presidential elections, and now new Mac ransomware
July 1, 2020
After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass
July 1, 2020
It’s happened again: AT&T sued for allegedly transferring victim’s number to thieves in $1.9m cryptocoin heist
July 1, 2020
Living on a prayer? Netgear not quite halfway there with patches for 28 out of 79 vulnerable router models
June 30, 2020
Google joins Apple in limiting web certificates to one year
June 30, 2020
NEC insists its face-recog training dataset isn’t biased, but refuses to share details of Neoface system with UK court
June 30, 2020
DDoS and dingoes: Australia to bolster cyber-defences with 500 hackers amid China spat
June 30, 2020
iOS 14 flags TikTok, 53 other apps spying on iPhone clipboards
June 30, 2020
Remember when we warned in February Apple will crack down on long-life HTTPS certs? It’s happening: Chrome, Firefox ready to join in, too
June 30, 2020
University of California San Francisco pays ransomware gang $1.14m as BBC publishes ‘dark web negotiations’
June 29, 2020
Beware “secure DNS” scam targeting website owners and bloggers
June 29, 2020
Yes, Prime Minister, rewrite the Computer Misuse Act: Brit infosec outfits urge reform
June 29, 2020
Satori IoT botnet author sentenced to 13 months in prison
June 29, 2020
Monday review – the hot 10 stories of the week
June 29, 2020
CyberX, CyberX, does whatever a CyberX does. Locks IoT, machines too, Microsoft got it, so will you
June 29, 2020
Macs, iPhones, iPads to get encrypted DNS – how’d you like them Apples?
June 27, 2020
Let’s roll the 3d6 dice on today’s security drama: Ah, 15, that’s LG allegedly hacked, source code stolen by Maze ransomware gang
June 26, 2020
Tune in and watch live: Email encryption doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing deal
June 26, 2020
Brit plod’s use of facial-recognition tech is lawful, no need to question us, cops’ lawyer tells Court of Appeal
June 26, 2020
Fancy hacking a PlayStation? Sony announces its bug bounty program
June 26, 2020
When one open-source package riddled with vulns pulls in dozens of others, what’s a dev to do?
June 26, 2020
REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more
June 26, 2020
Talk about the fox guarding the hen house. Comcast to handle DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox-using subscribers
June 26, 2020
US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant
June 25, 2020
Honeypot behind sold-off IP subnet shows Cyberbunker biz hosted all kinds of filth, says SANS Institute
June 25, 2020
Patch time! NVIDIA fixes kernel driver holes on Windows and Linux
June 25, 2020
Twitter apologizes for leaking businesses’ financial data
June 25, 2020
There are DDoS attacks, then there’s this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught
June 25, 2020
After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
June 24, 2020
Ransomware crims to sell off ‘scandalous’ files swiped from Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Puff Daddy’s legal eagles
June 24, 2020
Laws on police facial recognition aren’t tough enough, UK data watchdog barrister tells Court of Appeal
June 24, 2020
Glupteba – the malware that gets secret messages from the Bitcoin blockchain
June 24, 2020
Former UK Labour deputy leader wants to know how the NHS’s contact-tracing app will ensure user privacy
June 24, 2020
Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay
June 24, 2020
Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans
June 24, 2020
iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, Safari to give us ‘No, thanks!’ option for ad tracking
June 24, 2020
Three words you do not want to hear regarding a ‘secure browser’ called SafePay… Remote. Code. Execution
June 24, 2020
The state of OpenPGP key servers: Kristian, can you renew my certificate? A month later: Kristian? Ten days later: Too late, it’s expired
June 24, 2020
Here’s a headline we never thought we’d write 20 years ago: Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android
June 23, 2020
None shall pass: Yet another layer to protect hapless users, employers from dodgy docs added to Microsoft 365
June 23, 2020
UK police’s face recognition tech breaks human rights laws. Outlaw it, civil rights group urges Court of Appeal
June 23, 2020
United States wants HTTPS for all government sites, all the time
June 23, 2020
‘BlueLeaks’ exposes sensitive files from hundreds of police departments
June 23, 2020
What did it take for stubborn IBM to fix flaws in its Data Risk Manager security software? Someone dropping zero-days
June 23, 2020
Step on it, I’ve got the police on my hack: Anon swipes, leaks online 269GB of crime intel docs from cops, Feds
June 22, 2020
We were already secure enough for mass remote working before COVID-19, boast IT pros
June 22, 2020
Anatomy of a survey scam – how innocent questions can rip you off
June 22, 2020
Hacker indicted for stealing 65K employees’ PII in medical center hack
June 22, 2020
VMware and Office for Mac need patching, Microsoft can scan your firmware, and Anonymous takes credit for Atlanta police hacks
June 22, 2020
Hey NYPD, when you’re done tear-gassing and running over protesters, can you tell us about your spy gear?
June 19, 2020