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Spam swine break next-gen CAPTCHAs

Hotmail, Gmail and kitchen-based checks all neutered

3 Oct 14:25

Firefox update fixes international character password glitch

Lost in transliteration

29 Sep 12:15

Cloned US ATM cards: Can they fool Brit self-service checkouts?

Updated Carder crooks say they can

29 Aug 15:44

Best Western plays down impact of hack attack

8 million records? Huh, more like 10

26 Aug 10:36

Million bank details sold on eBay

And a few more gone AWOL

26 Aug 08:57

Apple's MobileMe plays into hands of spammers

Address harvesting all too easy

22 Aug 11:46

UK fraudster gang go PIN sniffing

Analysis Portsmouth Asda links to credit card hack

21 Aug 09:57

Goldfish customers sent wrong bills

'We're sorry about that. We're sorry about that'

19 Aug 13:34

How poor crypto housekeeping left OpenID open to abuse

Internet bouncer snooze leads to 'small earthquake'

13 Aug 06:02

Black Hat organizers punt totally hackable RFID badges

Black Hat Clone me, please

8 Aug 02:25

Researcher gives Elvis and bin Laden fake e-passports

Claims they'll fool e-readers. Uh huh huh

6 Aug 10:39

Blank robbers swipe 3,000 'fraud-proof' UK passports

Game on for the passport fraudsters?

29 Jul 10:18

Unions line up against airline ID cards

Airport workers join their bosses

21 Jul 10:38

Dutch university can publish controversial Oyster research

Freedom of speech trumps all

18 Jul 14:45

Oyster system failure causes travel misery

Updated Computer fault buggers barriers

14 Jul 09:38

Criminal record checks could hit over 14 million people

Analysis New CRB regs produce a nation of suspects

14 Jul 07:02

Gmail uses DomainKeys to lock out eBay phishing attacks

Promises 'dramatic reduction' in scam emails

10 Jul 12:25

Beijing scales back RFID ticket plans

Still embedding passport, address and email though

9 Jul 11:38

NXP sues to silence Oyster researchers

Report publication 'irresponsible'

8 Jul 10:59

Daily Mail loses employee info

Names, addresses, bank accounts and sort codes

7 Jul 10:22

Ankle-biting hackers storm net's overlords, hijack their domains

IANA and ICANN succumb to NetDevilz

27 Jun 18:55

Dutch government gags Oyster researchers

Don’t kill the messenger

25 Jun 16:25

Yahoo! Mail! vuln! fixed!

Buddy hacker account compromise risk plugged

25 Jun 15:35

Scareware package greets marks by name

Fakeale redux

24 Jun 06:02

Fraudsters pool data to beat plastic fraud checks

Post code lottery fix

11 Jun 11:07

Whaling fraudsters harpoon 15,000 victims

Two gangs blamed for attacks on credulous high-rollers

10 Jun 09:15

US bank loses unencrypted data on 4.5m people

IT finally hits the fan months after tapes go AWOL

2 Jun 15:57

ID fraudsters soak the rich

Soaraway losses

28 May 13:32

Facebook poked by XSS flaw

Updated Social spamming

23 May 18:40

Private sector saviours wanted for desperate ID scheme

Home Office chucks in the cards?

7 May 10:22

Women love chocolate more than password security

Sweet temptation

16 Apr 16:56

Wi-Fi spoofing sends Jesus phone disciples off the true path

Skyhook, line and sinker

16 Apr 09:42

Transcript disappears minister's 'hack-proof' ID register claim

So who hacked Hansard?

9 Apr 09:52

Online spousal spying widespread in the UK

Who did you text last night?

8 Apr 15:44

Microsoft lines up with the good guys on identity tech

Brands and Cameron pitch the fix for government's Big ID problem

4 Apr 12:01

New banking code cracks down on out-of-date software

Customers liable for losses

4 Apr 07:02

'Bullying' Aussie high school stops fingerprinting kids

Pressganged into submission

3 Apr 20:47

How an app called WarmTouch nailed a grenade-stockpiling cyber extortionist

Software that knows if you're mad - or a loner

1 Apr 23:20

Awed fraudsters defeated by UK's passport interviews

No fakes detected - terrorists all move to Belgium

25 Mar 13:23

ICO queries Heathrow T5's huge fingerprint scam scan

National security now wholly funded by shopping

24 Mar 14:31

Supermarket loses 4.2 million credit card details

Supermarket identity sweep

18 Mar 15:11

IBM buys Encentuate to accumulate

Lands security lab on Singapore

12 Mar 16:29

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