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Hey, Google, why are your contractors listening to me?
July 12, 2019
Windows 7 users upset by unwanted Patch Tuesday telemetry
July 12, 2019
Apple Watch’s Walkie-Talkie app goes radio silent due to vulnerability
July 12, 2019
Train maker’s coder goes loco, choo-choo-chooses to flee to China with top-secret code – allegedly
July 12, 2019
Oh, lovely, a bipartisan election hack alert law bill for Mitch McConnell to feed into the shredder
July 11, 2019
Intel patches SSD firmware and microprocessor diagnostic tool
July 11, 2019
Facial recognition surveillance must be banned, says Fight for the Future
July 11, 2019
Cyberattack lands ship in hot water
July 11, 2019
Wondering how to whack Zoom’s dodgy hidden web server on your Mac? No worries, Apple’s done it for you
July 11, 2019
GDPR superpowers lead to whopper ICO fines for BA, Marriott
July 11, 2019
Scots NHS symptom checker pings Facebook, Google and other ad peddlers
July 11, 2019
Dodgy-govt fave FinSpy snoopware is back and badder than ever for Android and iOS kit
July 11, 2019
Sea Turtle hackers head to the Mediterranean, snag Greece’s TLD registrar as a souvenir
July 11, 2019
“Mozilla aren’t villains after all” – ISPs back down after public outcry
July 11, 2019
AMD’s SEV tech that protects cloud VMs from rogue servers may as well stand for… Still Extremely Vulnerable
July 10, 2019
Remember Stuxnet? You’ll endure its hated-by-critics sequel if you don’t patch your holey Siemens industrial kit
July 10, 2019
UK watchdog fined firms £3m for data breaches last year – before its GDPR balls dropped
July 10, 2019
Two zero days and 15 critical flaws fixed in July’s Patch Tuesday
July 10, 2019
Rogue Android apps ignore your permissions
July 10, 2019
Instagram asks bullies, ‘Are you sure you want to say that?’
July 10, 2019
Mozilla boots alleged snoop troupe from its root cert coop: UAE-based DarkMatter thrown onto CA blocklist
July 10, 2019
It’s 2019 and SQL Server can be pwned by an SQL query, DHCP failover server failed by a packet, Edge, IE by webpages…
July 10, 2019
Huawei website ████ ██████ security flaws ██████ customer info and biz operations at risk: ███████ patched
July 9, 2019
Marriott’s got 99 million problems and the ICO’s one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over
July 9, 2019
‘This repository is private’ – so what’s it doing on the public internet, GE Aviation?
July 9, 2019
Zoom flaw could force you into a meeting, expose your video feed
July 9, 2019
Backdoor discovered in Ruby strong_password library
July 9, 2019
Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space
July 9, 2019
Anyone for unintended Chat Roulette? Zoom installs hidden Mac web server to allow auto-join video conferencing
July 9, 2019
Two pentesters, one glitch: Firefox browser menaced by ancient file-snaffling bug, er, feature
July 9, 2019
Google suspends Trends emails after revealing murder suspect’s name
July 9, 2019
Firefox to include tracker blocking report feature
July 9, 2019
Apple aims privacy billboard at Google’s controversial smart-city
July 9, 2019
Meet the Great Duke of… DLL: Microsoft shines light on Astaroth, a devilishly sneaky strain of fileless malware
July 8, 2019
Dear El Reg, Will Windows 10 break my VPN? I read it on the web so it must be true
July 8, 2019
Researchers hack VR worlds
July 8, 2019
Privacy and security risks as Sign In with Apple tweaks Open ID protocol
July 8, 2019
ISPs call Mozilla ‘Internet Villain’ for promoting DNS privacy
July 8, 2019
New Year’s eve gaming DDoSer lulz himself into a 27-month sentence
July 8, 2019
Medway Council reforms eforms to stop blurting out residents’ details
July 8, 2019
UK privacy watchdog threatens British Airways with 747-sized fine for massive personal data blurt
July 8, 2019
Fibaro flummoxed, Georgia courts held for ransom, and more
July 6, 2019
Cisco delivers Patch Tuesday warmup with bundle of 18 bug fixes
July 5, 2019
Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach
July 5, 2019
5 tips to stay secure on social media
July 5, 2019
OpenPGP experts targeted by long-feared ‘poisoning’ attack
July 5, 2019
Bitcoin eats as much energy as Switzerland
July 5, 2019
Mannequin Challenge videos teach computers to see
July 5, 2019
Deepfake revenge porn now a crime in Virginia
July 5, 2019
Worried about hackers? Catch a lifeline with this month’s Sophos SOS cybersecurity podcasts
July 5, 2019
Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling
July 4, 2019
Why are they “smart” locks if more money buys you less security?
July 4, 2019
Reports of cyber attacks fall, says UK.gov survey: GDPR? Fewer nasties? More targeted attacks? We just don’t know
July 4, 2019
Open Sesame! Zipato’s smart hub hacked to open front doors
July 4, 2019
Facebook’s down-ranking those ‘miracle cure’ health posts we all hate
July 4, 2019
Facebook should put a stop to Libra for now, says Congress
July 4, 2019
TikTok investigated (again) over how it handles children’s data and safety
July 4, 2019
US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good – Iranians hitting email flaw
July 3, 2019
How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook: ubiquitous and useful yet dangerous, impervious and misunderstood?
July 3, 2019
YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled
July 3, 2019
D-Link must suffer indignity of security audits to settle with the Federal Trade Commission
July 3, 2019
Serious Security: Beware eBay scrapers promising to help you
July 3, 2019
IoT vendor Orvibo gives away treasure trove of user and device data
July 3, 2019
Georgia’s court system hit by ransomware
July 3, 2019
Russian ‘Silence’ hacking crew turns up the volume – with $3m-plus cyber-raid on bank’s cash machines
July 3, 2019
Miami police body cam videos up for sale on the darkweb
July 3, 2019
Patch Android! July 2019 update fixes 9 critical flaws
July 3, 2019
Here’s a great idea: Why don’t we hardcode the same private key into all our smart home hubs?
July 3, 2019
$30/month email upstart Superhuman brought low with a blast of privacy Kryptonite
July 3, 2019
We are shocked to learn oppressive authoritarian surveillance state China injects spyware into foreigners’ smartphones
July 2, 2019
Scary Granny zombie game slurps credentials, spawns phishing attack
July 2, 2019
Dating app Jack’d fined $240K for leaving private photos up for a year
July 2, 2019
Medtronic rushes to replace insulin pumps after flaws found
July 2, 2019
Relatives’ DNA in geneology database leads to murder conviction
July 2, 2019
July is here – and so are the latest Android security fixes. Plenty of critical updates for all
July 1, 2019
Cop a load of this: 1TB of police body camera videos found lounging around public databases
July 1, 2019
Facebook staff sarin for a bad day: Suspected chemical weapon parcel sent to Silicon Valley HQ
July 1, 2019
Don’t tell Alice and Bob: Security maven Bruce Schneier is leaving IBM
July 1, 2019
RDP BlueKeep exploit shows why you really, really need to patch
July 1, 2019
ETERNALBLUE sextortion scam puts your password where your name should be
July 1, 2019
Cloud computing giant PCM hacked
July 1, 2019
Yuge U-turn: Prez Trump walks back on Huawei ban… at least the tech sector seems to think so
July 1, 2019
Crave that Instagram verified badge? Don’t fall for this login-stealing scam
July 1, 2019
White House mulls just banning strong end-to-end crypto. Plus: More bad stuff in infosec land
July 1, 2019
Worried about hacker-infested waters? Fret not. Sophos Security SOS Week will come to the rescue this month
July 1, 2019
Scumbags can program vulnerable MedTronic insulin pumps over the air to murder diabetics – insecure kit recalled
June 28, 2019
Iran’s blame-it-on-Bitcoin ‘leccy shortage probably isn’t a US hack cover story… yet
June 28, 2019
$50 DeepNude app undresses women with a single click
June 28, 2019
Mozilla’s bizarre robo-surfer project demonstrates ad snooping
June 28, 2019
Google Maps shortcut turns into 100-car mud pie in farmer’s field
June 28, 2019
Cryptocurrency phish dials back the fear, cranks up the politeness
June 27, 2019
While we were raging about Putin’s meddling and Kremlin hackers, Five Eyes were pwning Yandex, Russia’s Google
June 27, 2019
2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?
June 27, 2019
Tesla 3 navigation system fooled with GPS spoofing
June 27, 2019
YouTube’s antics with kids’ data prompts call for FTC to force change
June 27, 2019
FTC crackdown targets operators behind 1 billion robocalls
June 27, 2019
UK’s MoD is helping itself to cops’ fingerprint database ‘unlawfully’, rules biometrics chief
June 27, 2019
Are heart electrocardiograms the next big thing in biometrics?
June 27, 2019
Your server remote login isn’t root:password, right? Cool. You can keep your data. Oh sh… your IoT gear, though?
June 27, 2019
Hey China, while you’re in all our servers, can you fix these support tickets? IBM, HPE, Tata CS, Fujitsu, NTT and their customers pwned
June 26, 2019