UK's National Cyber Security Centre sidles in to help firm behind hacked NurseryCam product secure itself
Plus: User passwords were stored in plain text after all
25 Feb 2021 | 8
Gareth is based in the UK, and covers information security, court cases, and more for The Register.
UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages
Public outcry over access – all because £450m agency doesn't have school-grade web skills
25 Feb 2021 | 30
Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang
Not a great day for Bombardier, Leonardo and Seaspray customers
24 Feb 2021 | 21
Pyrrhic victory: Co-Op wins £13m from IBM over collapse of £175m Project Cobalt insurance platform contract
It wanted £128m in wasted spending – but customer wasn't blameless for debacle, rules UK High Court
24 Feb 2021 | 22
They break into your network but do nothing themselves: 'Initial access brokers' resell stolen creds for $7k a pop
So says Digital Shadows as it puts a price on illicit access methods
23 Feb 2021 | 1
Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet
And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna
23 Feb 2021 | 27
NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service
Updated Real names, usernames, and what appeared to be SHA-1 hashed passwords* exposed
22 Feb 2021 | 27
Cloud Direct stung for £80k in constructive dismissal lawsuit after director's 'insincere' evidence to tribunal
'Shambolic', 'unfair', 'wholly incorrect'... all because they wanted rid of their sales manager
22 Feb 2021 | 27
Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed
Goodwood Festival of Speed took a nasty turn in 2019, finds AAIB
19 Feb 2021 | 107
Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court
Worth a try, eh, chums?
19 Feb 2021 | 53
Fancy a £130k director of technology role with the UK's Ministry of Justice? All you need to do is 'fix the basics'
Miserly? No, they'll throw in a loan for a season train ticket too
19 Feb 2021 | 24
Just 2.6% of 2019's 18,000 tracked vulnerabilities were actively exploited in the wild
So says Kenna Security in a refreshing piece of counter-FUD analysis
18 Feb 2021 | 11
Nurserycam horror show: 'Secure' daycare video monitoring product beamed DVR admin creds to all users
Updated Company has a habit of reacting badly to vuln disclosures
18 Feb 2021 | 52
Cred-stealing trojan harvests logins from Chromium browsers, Outlook and more, warns Cisco Talos
Masslogger evolution rears its ugly head, $30 gets you three month license to cause carnage
18 Feb 2021 | 8
Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction
James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here
17 Feb 2021 | 49
Palo Alto Networks drops $156m to absorb DevSecOps firm Bridgecrew
Open-source stuff stays for now, company promises
17 Feb 2021 | 1
Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition
Lawyers say they need HSBC UK Powerpoint slides to undo Uncle Sam's case against Meng Wanzhou
12 Feb 2021 | 46
Footfallcam kerfuffle: Firm apologises, promises to fix product after viral Twitter thread, infoseccer backlash
Accusations of grey hat infosec consultancy extortion ring drop away after El Reg intervenes
12 Feb 2021 | 32
Court witness describes how Autonomy founder Lynch would wash his rear-end in US prison showers and dorms
When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind
12 Feb 2021 | 20
Criminal charges against Autonomy's Lynch will never be dropped, even if extradition bid fails, says lawyer
Plus: All his former Deloitte auditors can be made to testify against him
11 Feb 2021 | 9
Drag Autonomy founder's 'fraudulent guns' and 'grasping claws' to the US for a criminal trial, thunders barrister
Mike Lynch remains popular with the Leftpondians, court hears
10 Feb 2021 | 83
Mike Lynch extradition: Uncle Sam offered Autonomy founder $10m bail if he stood trial in the US
Plus: Verdict will be delayed for High Court to pass judgment on HPE civil case
09 Feb 2021 | 19
Just 2020 things: Miscreants hit remote desktops 700% harder as world's IT teams try to support locked-down staff
Bar the doors lest you get targeted
09 Feb 2021 | 10
EncroChat hack case: RAM, bam... what? Data in transit is data at rest, rules UK Court of Appeal
That's the Snoopers' Charter in action for you
08 Feb 2021 | 89
