Hole blasted in Guntrader: UK firearms sales website's CRM database breached, 111,000 users' info spilled online
One of the worst things that could happen to privacy-focused community
23 Jul 2021 | 68
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Respect in Security initiative aims to build reporting lines for infosec bods suffering harassment at work, conferences and online
Some of the stuff going on in the industry is completely out of order
22 Jul 2021 | 4
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US
UK Home Sec must now sign it off and then it's a High Court matter
22 Jul 2021 | 39
Hundreds of irate UK Parliamentary staffers sue IPSA over 2017 salary spreadsheet publication snafu
Yet they lose anonymity bid before High Court
21 Jul 2021 | 24
UK.gov's Huawei watchdog says firm made 'no overall improvement' on firmware security but won't say why
HCSEC board's 2020 report filled with pats on back for Chinese biz
20 Jul 2021 | 12
Engineers' Laurel and Hardy moment caused British Airways 787 to take an accidental knee
A tale of two holes and two mechanics of two different heights
19 Jul 2021 | 102
UK and chums call out Chinese Ministry of State Security for Hafnium Microsoft Exchange Server attacks
And US indicts four Chinese spies on suspicion of the hacks
19 Jul 2021 | 39
Microsoft broke British and European competition laws, UK reseller tells High Court
Redmond acknowledges £270m sueball – so the battle's on
12 Jul 2021 | 16
US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
Appeal against January decision to be heard by High Court
08 Jul 2021 | 102
White hats reported key Kaseya VSA flaw months ago. Ransomware outran the patch
So close, and yet so far
08 Jul 2021 | 7
You've patched that critical Sage X3 ERP security hole, yeah? Not exposing the suite to the internet, either, yeah?
Details of flaws now public for miscreants to exploit
07 Jul 2021 | 1
Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm
Yesterday's settlement was just one of the bigger firms
07 Jul 2021 | 2
Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Good luck with that, 4 New Square Chambers
06 Jul 2021 | 40
British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up potentially millions to make sueball bounce away
And a third of that's going into the lawyers' pockets
06 Jul 2021 | 16
IT manager who swindled Essex hospital trust out of £800k gets 5 years in prison
Self-signed invoices let him cream off hundreds of thousands
02 Jul 2021 | 41
PrintNightmare: Kicking users from Pre-Windows 2000 legacy group may thwart domain controller exploitation
While Uncle Sam recommends shutting down print spooler service
01 Jul 2021 | 7
Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments, says think tank
UK.gov's carrots and sticks never came to pass, co-author tells us
01 Jul 2021 | 24
International law enforcement op nukes Russian-language DoubleVPN service allegedly favoured by cybercriminals
Vendor claimed not to log user data – we'll see
30 Jun 2021 | 26
Leaked print spooler exploit lets Windows users remotely execute code as system on your domain controller
Kill this service immediately
30 Jun 2021 | 54
8-month suspended sentence for script kiddie who DDoS'd Labour candidate in runup to 2019 UK general election
Now banned from using Tor or VPNs – and 'vanity' handles on social media
30 Jun 2021 | 22
UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack
Exclusive Christian org becomes latest victim of latter-day IT scourge
30 Jun 2021 | 51
Watchdog bans crypto super-exchange Binance from 'regulated activities' in the UK
But Brits can seemingly keep using the website
29 Jun 2021 | 6
I was fired for telling ICO of Serco track and trace data breach, claims sacked worker
She worked for mini umbrella biz, not Serco itself, tribunal judge rules
28 Jun 2021 | 76
Dell SupportAssist contained RCE flaw allowing miscreants to remotely reflash your BIOS with code of their creation
And it affects 129 models of PC and laptop... or about 30 million computers
25 Jun 2021 | 17
