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Londoner who tried to blackmail Apple with 300m+ iCloud account resets was reusing stale old creds
December 24, 2019
What a decade! Our baddest stories and biggest lessons, year by year…
December 24, 2019
To protect data and code in the age of hybrid cloud, you can always turn to Intel SGX
December 24, 2019
Serious Security: The decade-ending “Y2K bug” that wasn’t
December 23, 2019
Patch now: Published Citrix applications leave networks of ‘potentially 80,000’ firms at risk from attackers
December 23, 2019
Emirati ‘surveillance app’ ToTok promoted by Huawei as Apple punts it from store
December 23, 2019
Smartphone location data can be used to identify and track anyone
December 23, 2019
Congress passes anti-robocall bill
December 23, 2019
Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number
December 23, 2019
Say GDP-aaaR: UK’s Information Commissioner pours £275k fine into London pharmacy’s teaspoon
December 23, 2019
Tracking President Trump with cellphone location data, Greta-Thunberg-themed malware, SharePoint patch, and more
December 21, 2019
It’s cool for Brit snoops to break the law, says secretive spy court. Just hold on while we pull off some legal jujitsu to let MI5 off the hook…
December 20, 2019
What’s that? Encryption’s OK now? UK politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal
December 20, 2019
Five years for the man who scammed Facebook and Google out of $120m by cunning use of email
December 20, 2019
Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images
December 20, 2019
Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators
December 20, 2019
What’s behind Putin’s old-school operating system?
December 20, 2019
Hello ‘123456,’ my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
December 20, 2019
Want to ‘live long and prosper’? Then avoid pirated, malware-laden Star Wars streams and pay to watch
December 19, 2019
Email blackmail brouhaha tears UKIP apart as High Court refuses computer seizure attempt
December 19, 2019
Chrome 79 patched after Android WebView app chaos
December 19, 2019
Get in line! 38,000 students and staff forced to queue for new passwords
December 19, 2019
Proposed standard would make warrant canaries machine-readable
December 19, 2019
Instagram hides ‘false’ content, unless it’s from a politician
December 19, 2019
British bloke accused of extorting victims for ‘Dark Overlord’ hacker crew finally gets his free trip* to America
December 19, 2019
Das Reboot: Uni forces 38,000 students, staff to queue, show their papers for password reset following ‘cyber attack’
December 19, 2019
FYI: FBI raiding NSA’s global wiretap database to probe US peeps is probably illegal, unconstitutional, court says
December 19, 2019
Medical biz LifeLabs fesses up: Hackers slurped 15 million customer records – and we paid them to hand it all back
December 18, 2019
You leak our secrets? We’ll leak your book sales, speech fees – into our coffers: Uncle Sam wins royalties fight against Edward Snowden
December 18, 2019
Jet2 hacker who deleted every account on UK company’s domain cops 5 months in jail
December 18, 2019
BlackBerry tells UK High Court that security outfit SentinelOne is its direct rival
December 18, 2019
Doxed credit card data has two hours max before it’s nabbed
December 18, 2019
Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers
December 18, 2019
Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn
December 18, 2019
Alleged bank vault robber posed with cash on Instagram, Facebook
December 18, 2019
Google to choke off ‘less secure applications’
December 18, 2019
Don’t fall for this porn scam – even if your password’s in the subject!
December 17, 2019
Half a billion here, half a billion there – pretty soon you’re talking real money: US Congress earmarks $425m for 2020 election security
December 17, 2019
Ransomware-seized New Orleans declares state of emergency
December 17, 2019
Researchers discover weakness in IoT digital certificates
December 17, 2019
Destroyed: A method of destroying Whatsapp group chats forever, say infosec bods of vuln patch
December 17, 2019
Mozilla mandates 2FA security for Firefox developers
December 17, 2019
Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab
December 17, 2019
London’s Met Police splash the cash on e-learning ‘cyber’ training for 4k staffers
December 17, 2019
It’s 2019 so, of course, this Wells Fargo employee accused of stealing customer cash posed with wads of dosh on Instagram, Facebook
December 16, 2019
“Dig up his body,” say creditors of deceased cryptocurrency player
December 16, 2019
Your workmates might still be reading that ‘unshared’ Slack document
December 16, 2019
Chinese e-commerce site LightInTheBox.com bared 1.3TB of server logs, user data and more
December 16, 2019
Plundervolt – stealing secrets by starving your computer of voltage
December 16, 2019
Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
December 16, 2019
Npm patches two serious bugs
December 16, 2019
Google adds Verified SMS and anti-spam feature to Messages app
December 16, 2019
Emotion-detection in AI should be regulated, AI Now says
December 16, 2019
VMware warning, OpenBSD gimme-root hole again, telco hit with GDPR fine, Ring camera hijackings, and more
December 16, 2019
Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen
December 13, 2019
Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data
December 13, 2019
YouTube bans malicious insults, veiled threats, harassment
December 13, 2019
Jack Dorsey wants a decentralised Twitter
December 13, 2019
Weak account checks earn company $10.5 million privacy fine
December 13, 2019
Ever wonder how hackers could possibly pwn power plants? Here are 54 Siemens bugs that could explain things
December 13, 2019
NPM swats path traversal bug that lets evil packages modify, steal files. That’s bad for JavaScript crypto-wallets
December 13, 2019
Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn’t blame US
December 12, 2019
Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption
December 12, 2019
Chrome 79 includes anti-phishing and hacked password protection
December 12, 2019
Brexit – even cybercriminals want to have their say…
December 12, 2019
S2 Ep20: Why don’t they send ransomware on floppies anymore?
December 12, 2019
Disgrace of Base: Scammy hordes force Keybase to end cryptocoin giveaway
December 12, 2019
It’s time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here’s how you could build a better Tor, say boffins
December 12, 2019
December Patch Tuesday blunts WizardOpium attack chain
December 12, 2019
Apple iOS 13.3 is here, bringing support for keyfobby authentication
December 12, 2019
Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn’t be drawn on details
December 12, 2019
LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app
December 12, 2019
You had one job, Cupertino: Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection
December 12, 2019
Bad news: KeyWe Smart Lock is easily bypassed and can’t be fixed
December 11, 2019
Google Chrome will check for breached credentials every time you sign in anywhere
December 11, 2019
Windows 10 Mobile receives its last security patches
December 11, 2019
DoItForState domain name thief gets 14 years for pistol-whipping plot
December 11, 2019
FTC warns Christmas buyers that smart toys are a security risk
December 11, 2019
Beware of bad Santas this Xmas: Piles of insecure smart toys fill retailers’ shelves
December 11, 2019
Ad industry groups ask that the CCPA keep its mitts off their cookies
December 11, 2019
Alleged Nigerian social engineer wins free flight to the US for business email fraud and love scams
December 11, 2019
It’s the end of the 20-teens, and your Windows PC can still be pwned by nothing more than a simple bad font
December 10, 2019
Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption …that the Feds and cops can break, say senators
December 10, 2019
Intel might want to reconsider the G part of SGX – because it’s been plunderstruck
December 10, 2019
Don’t pay off Ryuk ransomware, warn infoseccers: Its creators borked the decryptor
December 10, 2019
Snatch ransomware pwns security using sneaky ‘safe mode’ reboot
December 10, 2019
EU releases its 5G conclusions
December 10, 2019
SIEMs like a stretch: Elastic searches for cash from IT pros with security budgets
December 10, 2019
Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules
December 10, 2019
TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed
December 10, 2019
Advertisers want exemption from web privacy rules that, you know, enforce privacy
December 9, 2019
Serious Security: Understanding how computers count
December 9, 2019
Will the new iPhone 11 track you even if you tell it not to?
December 9, 2019
Ad network ransomware crook to flog £5k Rolex after court confiscates £270k in ill-gotten gains
December 9, 2019
Metasploit for drones? Best of luck with that, muses veteran tinkerer
December 9, 2019
Networking attack gives hijackers VPN access
December 9, 2019
HackerOne pays $20,000 bounty after breach of own systems
December 9, 2019
Facebook suing ILikeAd for hijacking users’ ad accounts
December 9, 2019
$5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group
December 9, 2019
OpenBSD bugs, Microsoft’s bad update, a new Nork hacking crew, and more
December 7, 2019