Racist malware blocks The Pirate Bay by tampering with victims' Windows hosts file
Hello, 2002 called with one of the oldest low-tech tricks in the book
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CREST president Ian Glover to retire after 13 years – but where's the transparency, bossman?
UK infosec accreditation body still won't publish exam cheatsheet scandal report nor be interviewed by El Reg
18 Jun 2021 | 5
Ex-Brave staffer launches GDPR sueball in Germany over tech giants' real-time bidding for ad inventory
Privacy browser's former chief policy officer calls web advertising ecosystem 'the Biggest. Data. Breach. Ever'
17 Jun 2021 | 21
Ryuk ransomware recovery cost us $8.1m and counting, says Baltimore school authority
Spreadsheet breaks down spend on staving off future badness
16 Jun 2021 | 6
Cuffed: Ukraine police collar six Clop ransomware gang suspects in joint raids with South Korean cops
Cobalt Strike and Flawedammyy RAT named as favoured tools
16 Jun 2021 | 11
Zoll Defibrillator Dashboard would execute contents of random Excel files ordinary users could import
Medical device cybersecurity raises its head in CISA warning
15 Jun 2021 | 15
NCSC chief: Ransomware is more of a threat to Britain than hostile nations' spies
Lindy Cameron gives private industry an unusual nod in speech full of interventionism
15 Jun 2021 | 7
G7 nations call out Russia for harbouring ransomware crims ahead of Biden-Putin powwow
Hopes raised in West of an extradition or law enforcement agreement to stem the tide
14 Jun 2021 | 15
UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning
Comment Even nuclear missile attacks came with a 4-minute heads-up
11 Jun 2021 | 44
BT sues supplier for £72m over exchange gear that allegedly caused wave of ADSL outages
Tii Technologies claims hamfisted BT bods caused problems, not their kit
11 Jun 2021 | 27
EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source
'Surprise stealing mechanics' made short work of network perimeter security
11 Jun 2021 | 18
BT promises firmware update for Mini Whole Home Wi-Fi discs to prevent obsessive Big Tech DNS lookups
Meanwhile users complain their IPs are being flagged for suspicious traffic
11 Jun 2021 | 23
Risk and reward: Nefilim ransomware gang mainly targets fewer, richer companies and that strategy is paying off, warns Trend Micro
Criminal operators emerged from woodwork just as COVID hit the West
09 Jun 2021 | 2
Mysterious Gelsemium APT was behind February compromise of NoxPlayer, says ESET
Malicious crew targets ME and Asia but also tries evading Chinese AV suites
09 Jun 2021 |
EE and Three mobe mast surveyors might 'upload some virus' to London Tube control centre, TfL told judge
Unimpressed beak orders Transport for London to let them onto Southwark roof
09 Jun 2021 | 76
Custom HMCTS video platform bought as part of £280m digitisation project used less than Zoom, say judges
At least it was more popular than Skype... just
07 Jun 2021 | 13
We're right behind Computer Misuse Act reforms for busting ransomware gangs, says UK infosec industry
Plus: CyberUp campaign writes to Home Sec
07 Jun 2021 | 3
Oracle hits UK reseller with lawsuit for allegedly reselling grey market Sun hardware
Big Red wanted TXO Systems dragged to court for years, say legal papers
07 Jun 2021 | 40
Android banking malware sharply increased in the first chunk of 2021, reckons ESET
Claims Russia's FSB was poking around an Eastern European ministry
04 Jun 2021 | 9
FireEye sold to McAfee's new owners for $1.2bn as Mandiant split into standalone firm again
Another big name buyout by STG
03 Jun 2021 | 1
Ahem, Huawei, your USB LTE stick has a vuln. I SAID AHEM, Huawei, are you listening?
File permissions blunder in E3372 device finally patched
02 Jun 2021 | 5
UK Special Forces soldiers' personal data was floating around WhatsApp in a leaked Army spreadsheet
Exclusive Bizarre promotion practice leads to near-inevitable breach
02 Jun 2021 | 76
OpenPGP library RNP updates after Thunderbird decrypt-no-recrypt bug squashed
Not the obvious function, the other obvious function
02 Jun 2021 | 2
Remember those wacky cyberpunk costumes in Hackers? They're on display in London this week
'Medieval mixed with athletic wear' chic from 1995
01 Jun 2021 | 51
