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‘Dirty little secret’ extortion email threatens to give your family coronavirus
March 19, 2020
What do you not want right now? A bunch of Cisco SD-WAN, Webex vulnerabilities? Here are a bunch of them
March 19, 2020
Russian state-sponsored hackers have been sniffing Middle East defence firms, warns Trend Micro
March 19, 2020
NIST shared dataset of tattoos that’s been used to identify prisoners
March 19, 2020
Cryptojacking is almost conquered – crushed along with coinhive.com
March 19, 2020
Oh-so-generous ransomware crooks vow to hold back from health organisations during COVID-19 crisis
March 19, 2020
Delayed Adobe patches fix long list of critical flaws
March 19, 2020
Facebook accidentally blocks genuine COVID-19 news
March 19, 2020
Hong Kong makes wearable trackers mandatory for new arrivals, checks in with ‘surprise calls’ too
March 19, 2020
Forget James Bond’s super-gadgets, this chap spied for China using SD card dead drops. Now he’s behind bars
March 19, 2020
Android malware uses coronavirus for sextortion and ransomware combo
March 18, 2020
Dear Adobe, Trend Micro users: Please vaccinate your software – at least some of these security holes were exploited in the wild
March 18, 2020
Freedom of Information coverup clerk stung for £2k after deleting council audio recording
March 18, 2020
VMware patches virtualisation bugs
March 18, 2020
Uber to file federal suit against LA over users’ real-time location data
March 18, 2020
DDoS attack on US Health agency part of coordinated campaign
March 18, 2020
Small business loans app blamed as 500,000 financial records leak out of … you guessed it, an open S3 bucket
March 18, 2020
Human traffickers use social media oversharing to gain victims’ trust
March 18, 2020
Pervasive digital surveillance of citizens deployed in COVID-19 fight, with rules that send genie back to bottle
March 18, 2020
Remember cryptojacking from way, way back (2019)? Site infections are down 99% – thanks to death of Coinhive
March 17, 2020
Nigerian spammer made 3X average national salary firehosing macro-laden Word docs at world+dog
March 17, 2020
Slack fixes account-stealing bug
March 17, 2020
Tor browser fixes bug that allows JavaScript to run when disabled
March 17, 2020
WordPress to get automatic updates for plugins and themes
March 17, 2020
Europol busts up two SIM-swapping hacking rings
March 17, 2020
Vimeo freezes accounts after malware hunts for logins, coronavirus map app infected with evil code, and more
March 17, 2020
Virtual machines, real problems: VMware fixes bug trio including guest-to-host hole in Workstation, Fusion
March 17, 2020
US Health and Human Services targeted by DDoS scum at just the time it’s needed to be up and running
March 16, 2020
Health workers are top of phishers’ target lists thanks to data value
March 16, 2020
Microsoft patches wormable Windows 10 ‘SMBGhost’ flaw
March 16, 2020
Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’
March 16, 2020
Open source bugs have soared in the past year
March 16, 2020
Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones
March 16, 2020
Your data was ‘taken without permission’, customers told, after personal info accessed in O2 UK partner’s database
March 13, 2020
Hey, friends. We know it’s a crazy time for the economy, but don’t forget to enable 2FA for payments by Saturday
March 13, 2020
EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption
March 13, 2020
Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
March 13, 2020
Confessions app Whisper spills almost a billion records
March 13, 2020
Open-source bug bonanza: Vulnerabilities up almost 50 per cent thanks to people actually looking for them
March 13, 2020
Avast pulls plug on insecure JavaScript engine in its security software suite
March 13, 2020
Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by… web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags
March 12, 2020
Thought you were done after Tuesday’s 115-fix day? Not yet: Microsoft emits SMBv3 worm-cure crisis patch
March 12, 2020
US Congress: Spying law is flawed, open to abuse, and lacking in accountability – so let’s reauthorize it
March 12, 2020
Data of millions of eBay and Amazon shoppers exposed
March 12, 2020
Firefox 74 offers privacy and security updates
March 12, 2020
Intel patches graphics drivers and offers new LVI flaw mitigations
March 12, 2020
Analytics firm’s VPN and ad-blocking apps are secretly grabbing user data
March 12, 2020
Necurs zombie botnet disrupted by Microsoft
March 12, 2020
Russia-backed crew’s latest malware has discerning taste – when screening visitors to poisoned watering holes
March 12, 2020
Microsoft nukes 9 million-strong Necurs botnet after unpicking domain name-generating algorithm
March 11, 2020
Meltdown The Sequel strikes Intel chips – and full mitigation against data-meddling LVI flaw will slash performance
March 11, 2020
TRRespass research reveals rowhammering is alive and well
March 11, 2020
Microsoft leaves critical bug unpatched on Patch Tuesday
March 11, 2020
Find out how to manage detection and response for better cyber security
March 11, 2020
Secret-sharing app Whisper shared secrets like last known location and actual password tokens in exposed database
March 11, 2020
FBI arrests alleged owner of Deer.io, top market for stolen accounts
March 11, 2020
Trial for accused CIA leaker ends in hung jury
March 11, 2020
Brave browser to block web fingerprinting with randomisation
March 11, 2020
The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP
March 11, 2020
Google: You know we said that Chrome tracker contained no personally identifiable info? Forget we ever said that
March 11, 2020
Stuck at home? Need something to keep busy with? Microsoft has 115 ideas – including an awful SMBv3 security hole to worry about
March 11, 2020
That LVI CPU hole wasn’t the only Intel fix: Dozens of flaws patched to stop chips turning into potatoes
March 11, 2020
California tech industry gets its first big coronavirus hit: RSA Conference attendee infected, in serious condition
March 10, 2020
You only LVI twice: Meltdown The Sequel strikes Intel chips – and full mitigation against data-meddling flaw will cost you 50%+ of performance
March 10, 2020
Watch out for Office 365 and G Suite scams, FBI warns businesses
March 10, 2020
Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime
March 10, 2020
Ex-Inspector General indicted for stealing data on 250k govt colleagues
March 10, 2020
Phone carriers may soon be forced to adopt anti-robocall tech
March 10, 2020
Avast’s AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping
March 10, 2020
AMD, boffins clash over chip data-leak claims: New side-channel holes in decades of cores, CPU maker disagrees
March 9, 2020
NSO Group fires back at Facebook: You lied to the court, claims spyware slinger, and we’ve got the proof
March 9, 2020
Months-long trial of alleged CIA Vault 7 exploit leaker ends with hung jury: Ex-sysadmin guilty of contempt, lying to FBI
March 9, 2020
It’s not a breach… it’s just that someone else has your data
March 9, 2020
UK Defence Committee probe into national security threat of Huawei sure to uncover lots of new and original insights
March 9, 2020
One billion Android smartphones racking up security flaws
March 9, 2020
Microsoft: Turn off Memory Integrity if it’s causing problems
March 9, 2020
Spyware maker NSO runs scared from Facebook over WhatsApp hacking charges, fails to show up in court
March 9, 2020
Now you need a notarized document to get a .gov domain
March 9, 2020
99% of compromised Microsoft enterprise accounts lack MFA
March 9, 2020
UK.gov is not sharing Brits’ medical data among different agencies… but it’s having a jolly good think about it
March 9, 2020
Check Point chap: Small firms don’t invest in infosec then hope they won’t get hacked. Spoiler alert: They get hacked
March 9, 2020
Don’t be fooled, experts warn, America’s anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground
March 6, 2020
FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses and more
March 6, 2020
UK spy auditor gives state snoops a big pat on the back for job well done – except MI5
March 6, 2020
Remote working due to coronavirus? Here’s how to do it securely…
March 6, 2020
NordVPN quietly plugged vuln where an HTTP POST request without authentication would return detailed customer data
March 6, 2020
Run ANDROID on an iPhone? Are you SERIOUS?!?
March 6, 2020
Researcher finds 670 Microsoft subdomains vulnerable to takeover
March 6, 2020
Chrome extension cons cryptocurrency users out of hardware wallet key
March 6, 2020
More than a billion hopelessly vulnerable Android gizmos in the wild that no longer receive security updates – research
March 6, 2020
Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years
March 6, 2020
Boots yanks loyalty card payouts after 150K accounts get stuffed
March 6, 2020
Like a Virgin, hacked for the very first time… UK broadband ISP spills 900,000 punters’ records into wrong hands from insecure database
March 5, 2020
Android users, if you could pause your COVID-19 panic buying for one minute to install these critical security fixes, that would be great
March 5, 2020
Let’s Encrypt: OK, maybe nuking three million HTTPS certs at once was a tad ambitious. Let’s take time out
March 5, 2020
Staffer emails compromised and customer details exposed in T-Mobile US’s third security whoopsie in as many years
March 5, 2020
‘Unfixable’ boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell ‘utter chaos’ for DRM, file encryption, etc
March 5, 2020
Coronavirus warning spreads computer virus
March 5, 2020
Facebook: No, we are not killing Libra
March 5, 2020
Ethical hackers swarm Pentagon websites
March 5, 2020