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Google slings websites into Chrome’s solitary confinement on Android to thwart Spectre-style data snooping
Help! I bought a domain and ended up with a stranger’s PayPal! And I can’t give it back
A cautionary, Thames Watery tale on how not to look phishy: ‘Click here to re-register!’
Remember the Democratic National Committee email leak? Same hackers now targeting EU countries, say malware boffins
Pen testers find mystery black box connected to ship’s engines
Robotic hand solves Rubik’s Cube by learning how to learn about it
Hackers hack card details from BriansClub carding site
Adobe fixes 46 critical bugs in patchfest
Hundreds charged in internet’s biggest child-abuse swap-shop site bust: IP addy leak led cops to sys-op’s home
Food writer Jack Monroe loses at least £5,000 in SIM-swap fraud
Pitney Bowes and Groupe M6 join ransomware’s victim list
Microsoft lets Xbox users censor what messages they see
#FacebookLockout: Users who report fake/scam accounts locked out
Watch out for this latest LinkedIn phish that’s ‘sent’ by a friend
Sure is quiet from Adobe. No security fixes this month? Great job. Oh no, wait, what’s that stampede sound…
Ye olde Blue Screen of Death is back – this time, a bad Symantec update is to blame
Update now! Windows users targeted by iTunes Software Updater zero-day
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company
Apple says Tencent isn’t snooping on your browsing habits
350+ hackers hunt down missing people in first such hackathon
Sudo? More like Su-doh: There’s a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)
Apple insists it’s totally not doing that thing it wasn’t accused of: We’re not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent – just people’s IP addresses
Pitney Bowes: Can we be frank? Ransomware has borked our dead-tree post systems
Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing
Stalker found pop star by searching eyes’ reflections on Google Maps
Soldering spy chips inside firewalls is now a cheap hack, shows researcher
Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code
Hacker wants $300 for 250,000 records stolen from sex worker site
Imperva cloud firewall pwned, D-Link bug uncovered – plus more
Most Americans don’t have a clue what https:// means
Hackers bypassing some types of 2FA security FBI warns
Facebook flags thousands of kids as interested in gambling, booze
Apple removes app that tracks Hong Kong police and protestors
Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes
Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos
Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users’ from Dutch brothel forum
Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs
Twitter used 2FA phone numbers for targeted advertising
California outlaws facial recognition in police bodycams
Job seekers are scrubbing clean their social media accounts
Former BAE Systems contractor charged with ‘damaging disclosure’ of UK defence secrets
American intelligence follows British lead in warning of serious VPN vulnerabilities
iTerm2 issues emergency update after MOSS finds a fatal flaw in its terminal code
US charges Singapore coin miner with conning cloud firms out of compute time
October Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes critical remote desktop bug
Deepfakes have doubled, overwhelmingly targeting women
Copy-and-paste sharing on Stack Overflow spreads insecure code
TOMS hacker tells people to log off and enjoy a screenless day
Twitter: No, really, we’re very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash
You know the deal: October 2019. Pwned by a spreadsheet. Patch your Microsoft stuff
Tune in today: Learn lessons from Australia and Singapore – find out how to thwart cyber-crooks probing your IT
A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model
If you have a security alert, I feel bad for you, son – you got 99 problems but a hack ain’t one
Nix to the mix: Chrome to block passive HTTP content swirled into HTTPS pages
Signal immediately fixed FaceTime-style eavesdropping bug
GPS tracker from stalked woman’s car led to indictment of 20 mobsters
Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency dealt blow by PayPal’s departure
That was some of the best flying I’ve seen to date, right up to the part where you got hacked
Android devices hit by zero-day exploit Google thought it had patched
Facebook urged by governments to halt end-to-end encryption plans
Social media platforms can be forced to delete illegal content worldwide
Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
A Nord VPN bug, a(nother) bad Microsoft patch, Zynga data farmed out, and more
Google sounds the alarm over Android flaw being exploited in the wild, possibly by NSO
GPS cyberstalking of girlfriend brings surveillance and indictment for alleged American mobster
Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children
Iran tried to hack hundreds of politicians, journalists email accounts last month, warns Microsoft
Dead simple: Plenty of Magecart miscreants still looking to skim off your credit card deets
Buying a new laptop? Here’s how to secure it
TalkTalk says WalkWalk if you’ve got a mouldy Tiscali email address, or pay £50 a year to keep it
WhatsApp vulnerability could compromise Android smartphones
£3 billion Safari iPhone privacy lawsuit given go-ahead
Hacker’s parents sentenced for selling his cryptocurrency
Google brings Incognito mode to Maps
Egyptian government caught tracking opponents and activists through phone apps
Life’s certainties: Death, taxes, and Cisco patching more serious vulnerabilities
FBI softens stance on ransomware: it’s (sort of) okay to pay off crims to get your data back
Kaspersky warns of encryption-busting Reductor malware
No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say
PDF encryption standard weaknesses uncovered
Google’s Password Manager now checks for breached credentials
Ransomware attacks paralyze, and sometimes crush, hospitals
Huygens if true: Dutch police break up bulletproof hosting outfit and kill Mirai botnet
FBI called in to investigate 2018 Mountain State mobile voting system hacking
Google Maps gets Incognito fig leaf: We’ll give you vague peace of mind if you hold off those privacy laws
Medic! Uncle Sam warns hospitals not to use outdated IPnet freely on their networks
Former! Yahoo! engineer! admits! to! hacking! user! emails! for! smutty! snaps!
Zendesk clocks 10,000 accounts accessed by miscreants before November 2016
If you really can’t let go of Windows 7, Microsoft will keep things secure for another three years
Exim suffers another ‘critical’ remote code execution flaw
O.MG! Evil Lightning cable about to hit mass distribution
218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
Have you been Thomas Crooked? Watch out for cybercrims slinging holiday-themed fakes
Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts
The benefits of security behavior analytics for devops
Jamf emits mystery security fix for Pro macOS, iOS wrangler, keeps admins in dark by censoring chatter
vBulletin zero-day KOs Comodo user forums – that’s 245,000 accounts at risk of compromise
If your org hasn’t had a security incident in the last year: Good for you, you’re in the minority
Cloudflare adds VPN features to 1.1.1.1 privacy app