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Most staffers expect bosses to snoop on them, say unions
US rolls back cyberwarfare rules
What happens to your online accounts when you die?
Romance scam victim allegedly plotted to kill her mother for cash
Sextortion and what to do about it [VIDEO]
Who was it that hacked Apple? Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, boy boy boy!
Juno this ain’t right! Chinese hackers target Alaska
Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
Sacramento admits to tracking welfare recipients’ license plates
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison
Bogus journals being used to publish fake science
Mozilla-endorsed security plug-in accused of tracking users
Making money mining Coinhive? Yeah, you and nine other people
India’s Cosmos bank raided for $13m by hackers
Support for ageing key exchange crypto leaves VPNs open to attack
Bitcoin backer sues AT&T for $240m over stolen cryptocurrency
Google is tracking your location, even when the setting is turned off
The sextortionists are back, this time with your phone number as “proof”
Are your Android apps listening to you?
Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
Baddies of the internet: It’s all about dodgy mobile apps, they’re so hot right now
FBI warns of choreographed ATM drainage
Foreshadow and Intel SGX software attestation: ‘The whole trust model collapses’
Criminals a bit less interested in nicking Brits’ identities this year
Florida Man laundered money for Reveton ransomware. Then Microsoft hired him
Patch Tuesday heats up with pair of exploited zero-days squashed – plus 58 other vulns fixed
IDG Contributor Network: How hybrid IT impacts identity management
Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echoes into snooping devices
Oracle: Run, don’t walk, to patch this critical Database takeover bug
Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed
CVE? Nope. NVD? Nope. Serious must-patch type flaws skipping mainstream vuln lists – report
Apple Mac “zero day” hack lets you sneakily click [OK]
Pacemaker controllers still vulnerable 18 months after flaws reported
Police body cameras open to attack
11-year-old hacker changes election results
Facebook news feed changes – it’s a hoax!
May the May update be with you: OpenSSL key sniffed from radio signal
Faxploit: Retro hacking of fax machines can spread malware
Cisco patches IOS in response to boffins’ IKE-busting breakthrough
Intel finally emits Puma 1Gbps modem fixes – just as new ping-of-death bug emerges
It’s official: TLS 1.3 approved as standard while spies weep
Blue Team Village, DEF CON 2018 | Salted Hash Ep 43
How a cryptocurrency-destroying bug almost didn’t get reported
US voting systems: Full of holes, loaded with pop music, and hacked by an 11-year-old
Siri is listening to you, but she’s NOT spying, says Apple
Feds indict 12 for allegedly buying iPhones on other people’s dimes
In-flight satellite comms vulnerable to remote attack, researcher finds
Criminal justice software code could send you to jail and there’s nothing you can do about it
Prank ‘Give me a raise!’ email nearly lands sysadmin with dismissal
Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking
UK cyber cops: Infosec pros could help us divert teens from ‘dark side’
Snap code snatched, Pentagon bans bands, pacemakers cracked, etc
Blue Team village, Deffcon 2018 | Salted Hash Ep. 43
The off-brand ‘military-grade’ x86 processors, in the library, with the root-granting ‘backdoor’
Hi-de-Hack! Redcoats red-faced as Butlin’s holiday camp admits data breach hit 34,000
Congresscritters want answers on Tillerson’s rm -rf /opt/gov/infosec
How one man could have hacked every Mac developer (73% of them, anyway)
Comcast Xfinity web flaws exposed customer data
15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam
Off-colour tweet earns Google’s Spectre whizz a midnight eviction from Caesars and DEF CON
Facebook ‘regrets’ balloons and confetti triggered by earthquake posts
Hackers can cook people alive using sat-comms ‘microwave oven’ death rays – claim
Encryption doesn’t stop him or her or you… from working out what Thing 1 is up to
Spec-exec CPU bugs sweep hacking Oscars – and John McAfee’s in there like a bullet
Can we talk about the little backdoors in data center servers, please?
Say what you will about self-driving cars – the security is looking ‘OK’
You can’t always trust those mobile payment gadgets as far as you can throw them – bugs found by infosec duo
Kaspersky VPN blabbed domain names of visited websites – and gave me a $0 reward, says chap
Crims hacked accounts, got phones, resold them – and the Feds reckon they’ve nabbed ’em
Oh, fore putt’s sake: Golf org PGA bunkered up by ransomware attack just days before tournament
Discover which dangers lurk ahead – at Sophos’ ‘See the Future’ event
Google to warn companies targeted in government-backed attacks
“Attack” on FCC over net neutrality was legitimate traffic, report says
DARPA takes aim at deepfake forgeries
Fortnite for Android goes “off market” – is that good or bad? [VIDEO]
How evil JavaScript helps attackers tag possible victims – and gives away their intent
WhatsApp security snafu ‘could allow message manipulation’
Should I infect this PC, wonders malware. Let me ask my neural net…
Revealed: El Reg blew lid off Meltdown CPU bug before Intel told US govt – and how bitter tech rivals teamed up
If for some reason you’re still using TKIP crypto on your Wi-Fi, ditch it – Linux, Android world bug collides with it
Microsoft to hackers: Finding Hyper-V bugs is hard. Change my mind. PS: Here’s a head start…
Stress, bad workplace cultures are still driving security folk to drink
Google Project Zero boss: Blockchain won’t solve your security woes – but partying just might
Japanese dark-web drug dealers are so polite, they’ll offer ‘a refund’ if you’re not satisfied
Facebook wants to be the future of online banking
Could deliberately adding security bugs make software more secure?
Profit-strapped Symantec pulls employee share scheme
An inside look at hybrid Office 365 phishing attacks | Salted Hash Ep 41
Hey, you know what a popular medical record system doesn’t need? 23 security vulnerabilities
Funnily enough, no, infosec bods aren’t mad keen on W. Virginia’s vote-by-phone-app plan
Cracking the passwords of some WPA2 Wi-Fi networks just got easier
Batten down the ports: Linux networking bug SegmentSmack could remotely crash systems
How Bitcoin and the Dark Web hide SamSam in plain sight
iPhone chipmaker blames ransomware for factory shutdowns
Rights groups challenge UK cops over refusal to hand over info on IMSI catchers
Mozilla faces resistance over DNS privacy test
Fortnite ditches Google Play – will it undermine Android security?
Bank on it: It’s either legal to port-scan someone without consent or it’s not, fumes researcher
What is a phishing kit? Watch this in-depth explainer | Salted Hash Ep 39
Top tip? Sprinkle bugs into your code to throw off robo-vuln scanners