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$2.07bn? That’s one Dell of a deal to offload infosec biz RSA
Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners
Malware and HTTPS – a growing love affair
Council returns to using pen and paper after cyberattack
AI filter launched to block Twitter cyberflashing
IOTA shuts down network temporarily to fight wallet hacker
Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online
Tutanota cries ‘censorship!’ after secure email biz blocked – for real this time – in Russia
Severe vuln in WordPress plugin Profile Builder would happily hand anyone the keys to your kingdom
Google pulls 500 malicious Chrome extensions after researcher tip-off
Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details
Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency
Police bust alleged operator of Bitcoin mixing service Helix
It is with a heavy heart we must inform you, once again, folks are accidentally spilling thousands of sensitive pics, records onto the internet
Roses are red, IBM is Big Blue. It’s out of RSA Conference after coronavirus review: IBMers will not attend infosec event over ‘health concerns’
Google burns down more than 500 private-data-stealing, ad-defrauding Chrome extensions installed by 1.7m netizens
Bluetooth bugs – researchers find 10 “Sweyntooth” security holes
Austrian foreign ministry: ‘State actor’ hack on government IT systems is over
Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police
Cookie-nabbing app could have served users side helping of XSS
Suspect who refused to decrypt hard drives released after four years
Facebook ices in-app dating in EU after questions from regulator
Self-driving car dataset missing labels for pedestrians, cyclists
Corp.com is up for sale – check your Active Directory settings!
AT&T insists it’s not blocking Tutanota after secure email biz cries foul, cites loss of net neutrality as cause
Voatz of no confidence: MIT boffins eviscerate US election app, claim fiends could exploit flaws to derail democracy
Firefox six-weekly security fixes are out – get them now!
Dell fixes privilege elevation bug in support software
IE zero day and heap of RDP flaws fixed in February Patch Tuesday
FBI: Cybercrime tore a $3.5b hole in victims’ pockets last year
A dirty dozen of Bluetooth bugs threaten to reboot, freeze, or hack your trendy gizmos from close range
Google to force Nest users to turn on 2FA
Mozilla issues final warning to websites using TLS 1.0
Netgear’s routerlogin.com HTTPS cert snafu now has a live proof of concept
US charges four Chinese military members with Equifax hack
Data about inmates and jail staff spilled by leaky prison app
If you’re running Windows, I feel bad for you, son. Microsoft’s got 99 problems, better fix each one
B-but it doesn’t get viruses! Not so, Apple fanbois: Mac malware is growing faster than nasties going for Windows
Crypto AG backdooring rumours were true, say German and Swiss news orgs after explosive docs leaked
Tens of millions of biz Dell PCs smacked by privilege-escalation bug in bundled troubleshooting tool
5 tips for you and your family on Safer Internet Day
5 tips for businesses on Safer Internet Day
Freedom Hosting owner pleads guilty to distributing child abuse images
Officials raise alarm about Chinese hacking
Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts hijacked
Forgotten motherboard driver turns out to be perfect for slipping Windows ransomware past antivirus checks
Game over, LAN, game over! Windows software nasty Emotet spotted spreading via brute-forced Wi-Fi networks
These truly are the end times for TLS 1.0, 1.1: Firefox hopes to ‘eradicate’ weak HTTPS standard by blocking it
US govt accuses four Chinese army soldiers of hacking Equifax and siphoning 145m Americans’ personal info
Google Chrome to start blocking downloads served via HTTP
Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’
FBI director warns of sustained Russian disinformation threat
Frustrated author cybersquats novelist’s website
How to bring security into agile development and CI/CD
Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news
Google Chrome to block file downloads – from .exe to .txt – over HTTP by default this year. And we’re OK with this
RobbinHood – the ransomware that brings its own bug
Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they’ll have to fly the things a lot more if they want to help out around South China Sea
Day 4 of outage: UK’s Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
Researchers transmit data covertly by altering screen brightness
Facebook, Google, YouTube order Clearview to stop scraping faceprints
Wacom driver caught monitoring third-party software use
Cybercrooks busted for multimillion-dollar identity fraud
Android owners – you’ll want to get these latest security patches, especially for this nasty Bluetooth hijack flaw
Good: IT admins scrambled to patch 80 per cent of public-facing Citrix boxes to close nightmare hijack hole
Update now – WhatsApp flaw gave attackers access to local files
Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’
Researchers reckon 500k PCs infested with malware after dodgy downloads install even more nasties from Bitbucket
Google’s Chrome 80 clamps down on cookies and notification spam
Android pulls 24 ‘dangerous’ malware-filled apps from Play Store
LCD pwn System: How to modulate screen brightness to covertly transmit data from an air-gapped computer… slowly
Yahoo! hack! payout! nearly! approved! and! the! question! is! how! to! spend! 60! cents!?
Terrifying bug in WhatsApp allows hackers to steal files. So get patching all nine of you using it on the desktop
Sketchy behavior? Wacom tablet drivers phone home with names, times of every app opened on your computer
Time to patch your lightbulb? Researchers demonstrate Philips Hue exploit
RIP FTP? File Transfer Protocol switched off by default in Chrome 80
Oh ****… Sudo has a ‘make anyone root’ bug that needs to be patched – if you’re unlucky enough to enable pwfeedback
Coronavirus “safety measures” email is a phishing scam
PayPal SMS scams – don’t fall for them!
They can’t collect your bins or fix your roads. They let Google stalk visitors to their websites. Yes, it’s UK local government
Someone else may have your videos, Google tells users
Critical Android flaws patched in February bulletin
Twitter admits to raid on users’ phone numbers
Google Takeout a bit too true to its name after potentially 1000s of private videos shared with complete strangers
Is Chrome really secretly stalking you across Google sites using per-install ID numbers? We reveal the truth
This is not Huawei to reassure people about Beijing’s spying eyes: Trivial backdoor found in HiSilicon’s firmware for net-connected cams, recorders
Malware infection attempts appear to be shrinking… possibly because miscreants are less spammy and more focused on specific targets
7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment
Oh buoy. Rich yacht bods’ job agency leaves 17,000 sailors’ details exposed in AWS bucket
School’s out as ransomware attack downs IT systems at Scotland’s Dundee and Angus College
NIST tests methods of recovering data from smashed smartphones
Twitter hands over student’s account to his college
Google’s Super Bowl ad will make you cry. Or wince.
Google’s OpenSK lets you BYOSK – burn your own security key
Twitter says a certain someone tried to discover the phone numbers used by potentially millions of twits
Your mobile network broke the law by selling location data and may be fined millions… or maybe not, shrugs FCC
‘Cyber security incident’ takes its Toll on Aussie delivery giant as box-tracking boxen yanked offline
iCloud hacker perv cops nearly 3 years in jail for stealing and sharing people’s private, intimate pics
Apple proposes simple security upgrade for SMS 2FA codes
FTC warns VoIP providers that help robocallers: we can and will sue