Mimecast bins SolarWinds and compromised servers alike in wake of supply chain hack
Signs up for Cisco, says some encrypted creds were stolen
17 Mar 2021 | 8
Gareth is based in the UK, and covers information security, court cases, and more for The Register.
Brit college forced to shift all teaching online for a week while it picks up the pieces from ransomware attack
Plus: Stop bigging up these despicable criminals
17 Mar 2021 | 30
PSA: If you're still giving users admin rights, maybe try not doing that. Would've helped dampen 100+ Microsoft vulns last year – report
Limiting access is great though 'patching is the only permanent fix'
17 Mar 2021 | 71
Ex-asylum seeker with infosec degree loses discrimination claim against UK cyber range provider after storming out
'It had nothing whatsoever to do with the claimant's country of birth', rules Employment Tribunal
16 Mar 2021 | 40
Smart doorbells on business premises make your property more attractive to burglars, warns researcher
Spend your cash on real locks, advises Cranfield University
15 Mar 2021 | 36
Gummy bears as a unit of measure? The Reg Standards Soviet will not stand for this sort of silliness
Reg Standards Bureau Less than a fifth of a linguine, for goodness' sake – come on now
12 Mar 2021 | 69
No sign of Exchange-related ransomware hitting UK orgs, claims NCSC as it urges admins to scan for compromises
GCHQ offshoot points orgs at Microsoft advice and tools
12 Mar 2021 | 6
This Netgear SOHO switch has 15 – count 'em! – vulns, which means you need to upgrade the firmware... now
One of them is a critical RCE bug
11 Mar 2021 | 23
ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments
Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files
11 Mar 2021 | 17
UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages
But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners
11 Mar 2021 | 30
Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ
Life in the 21st century is great
10 Mar 2021 | 15
Belgian cops crack down on encrypted phone network Sky ECC in 200 overnight raids as firm denies criminal ties
Shades of the Encrochat bust all over again
10 Mar 2021 | 24
Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey
Bare-faced cheek of Barewire using our trademarks, say Redmond legal eagles
10 Mar 2021 | 48
Brit cybercops issue tender to rip and replace their formerly flaw-ridden CyberAlarm tool
Updated Plus: Where did their original logo come from?
10 Mar 2021 | 11
US newspaper's 'Biden will hack Russia' claim: A good way to reassure Putin you'll leave him alone
Opinion Titbit for domestic consumption looks darn silly from abroad
09 Mar 2021 | 45
University of the Highlands and Islands shuts down campuses as it deals with 'ongoing cyber incident'
Ten letters, starts with R, ends with E, three syllables
08 Mar 2021 | 10
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol
One-fifth of all flights in a 3 hour period were affected
05 Mar 2021 | 70
US consumer protection bureau goes after tech support scammers' alleged payments processor
Hit the organ-grinder, not just the monkey
04 Mar 2021 | 23
Qualys hit with ransomware: Customer invoices leaked on extortionists' Tor blog
Updated Ace infosec biz aware and investigating, we're told
03 Mar 2021 | 16
Proof of concept code published for latest Saltstack CVE: Don't be an update laggard
Any user could become root, warns Immersive Labs researcher
03 Mar 2021 | 3
It's not easy being green: EV HTTPS cert seller Sectigo questions Chrome's logic in burying EV HTTPS cert info
Seeing as Google thinks no one cares about location records, we'll remove street addresses from all our sites, says compliance chief
03 Mar 2021 | 23
IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot
Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards
03 Mar 2021 | 16
Gootkit malware crew using SEO to get pwned websites in front of unwitting marks
And they're getting into the ransomware game too, warns Sophos
02 Mar 2021 | 3
Imperva pretty adamant that security analytics aggregator product Sonar is not 'one dashboard to rule them all'
Uh huh... it's a good time to be in enterprise security analytics
26 Feb 2021 | 2
