UK Supreme Court snubs Assange anti-extradition bid Home Secretary ponders putting WikiLeaker on one-way US flight Security15 Mar 2022 | 35
Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus Russian biz founder calls it 'an insult' Security15 Mar 2022 | 102
Nominet suspends 'single digit' number of Russian dot-UK domain registrars Does not wish to 'profit' from 'commercial arrangements' in Russia Networks15 Mar 2022 | 15
Viasat, Rosneft hit by cyberattacks as Ukraine war spills online One shows signs of a state-sponsored intrusion, the other potentially not Security14 Mar 2022 | 5
Brit techie shows us life in Ukraine amid Russian invasion Pics Martial law, no booze sales, big queues for trains westwards Security14 Mar 2022 | 89
UK Home Office dangles £20m for national gun licence database system But potential bidders will have to move fast on this one Databases11 Mar 2022 | 99
Alleged REvil suspect extradited on ransomware spree charges Little doubt about US federal court outcome Security10 Mar 2022 | 4
Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy No more than 10 alphanumerics, no special characters – in 2022? Security10 Mar 2022 | 161
Cow-counting app abused by China 'to spy on US states' Now that's breaking moos Security09 Mar 2022 | 14
Google buys threat intel giant Mandiant for $5.4bn Artist formerly known as FireEye to boost security for Alphabet's cloudy arm Security08 Mar 2022 | 15
Lapsus$ extortionists dump Samsung data online, chaebol confirms security breach Updated 190GB worth of internal files include 'some source codes relating to the operation of Galaxy devices' Security07 Mar 2022 | 13
Leaked stolen Nvidia key can sign Windows malware 70k staff email addresses and NTLM password hashes also dumped online Security05 Mar 2022 | 30
BBC points Russians to the Tor version of itself Back to the future with short wave radio, plus Russia drop internet Iron Curtain Security04 Mar 2022 | 74
Amazon Alexa can be hijacked via commands from own speaker Updated This isn't the artificial intelligence we were promised Security03 Mar 2022 | 64
UK government starts public consultation on telco security Potential mass internet surveillance idea dropped after ISP pushback, uncertainty about final measures linger Security03 Mar 2022 | 13
Details of '120,000 Russian soldiers' leaked by Ukrainian media Verification hit and miss so far Security02 Mar 2022 | 69
Second data-wiping malware found in Ukraine, says ESET While Apple halts all sales in Russia, Visa and Mastercard block banks Security01 Mar 2022 | 7
Ericsson report details how it paid off Islamic State Staff sacked after bosses discovered terrorists received money for access to Iraq mobile market Networks28 Feb 2022 | 12
Conti ransomware gang leak: 60,000 messages online What looks like Jabber chat app files published after pro-Russia pledge Security28 Feb 2022 | 11
Govt suggests Brits should hand passports to social media companies Block buttons would become mandatory under forthcoming Online Safety Bill, says DCMS Offbeat28 Feb 2022 | 191
Ukraine seeks volunteers to defend networks as Russian troops menace Kyiv While Moscow tells its operators: Treat any infrastructure outage as a 'computer attack' Security25 Feb 2022 | 55
UK Computer Misuse Act reformers visit Parliament Cyberup campaign hasn't gone away, you know Security25 Feb 2022 | 17
Ukraine hit by DDoS attacks, Russia deploys malware Digital skirmishes continue as tension mounts in Eastern Europe Security23 Feb 2022 | 21
Airtag clones can sidestep Apple anti-stalker tech Open source + public key generation = no alerts, says infosec startup Security22 Feb 2022 | 43
EncroChat defendants' lawyers make bid to halt trial Good luck finding public support for that one Security22 Feb 2022 | 19
Linux Snap package tool fixes make-me-root bugs Or you could think of them as a superuser password reset function Security19 Feb 2022 | 25
Adobe warns of second critical security hole in Adobe Commerce, Magento As sanctioned Russian infosec firm says it has working exploit code Security18 Feb 2022 | 19
VMware patches critical guest-to-host vulnerabilities Time to fix code like it's 2020 Virtualization17 Feb 2022 | 3
UK regulator 'broke international law', says Facebook From the people who 'sat on their hands' when asked for info about Giphy deal Networks15 Feb 2022 | 28
San Francisco 49ers catch ransomware, sample files leaked online US football team bitten by BlackByte gang the FBI just warned us about Security14 Feb 2022 | 4
IT technician jailed for wiping school's and pupils' devices Court told he'd acted from 'spite and revenge' due to grudge over sacking Legal14 Feb 2022 | 100
US govt: Here are another 15 security bugs under attack right now Best plug HiveNightmare if you haven't already, unless you like new admins Security11 Feb 2022 | 10
UK regulators accept Google's Privacy Sandbox promises ICO and CMA say they will oversee cookie-free adtech product Applications11 Feb 2022 | 8
Ransomware crew dumps stolen Optionis files online Suggests accounting'n'umbrella firm didn't pay ransom Security11 Feb 2022 | 7
France says Google Analytics breaches GDPR when it sends data to US Hapless unnamed website manager given one month to strip GA from their site Legal10 Feb 2022 | 133
UK, US, Australia issue joint advisory: Ransomware on the loose, critical national infrastructure affected Don't pay extortionists? Firms shelled out $5bn in Bitcoin in 6 months Security09 Feb 2022 | 12
5G masts will be strapped to lampposts and traffic lights – once £4m project figures out who owns them UK.gov flings cash at software solution to local planning problem Networks09 Feb 2022 | 74
Canadian Netwalker ransomware crook pleads guilty to million-dollar crimes Crim has 80 months to think on choices made in life Security08 Feb 2022 | 5
UK.gov threatens to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok Age verification for large chunks of WWW to be mandatory Security08 Feb 2022 | 251
Labour reminds UK.gov that it's supposed to be reforming the Computer Misuse Act Shadow foreign secretary says work is visibly overdue Security08 Feb 2022 | 15
Play Store class action has £15m budget for defeating Google in London court Detail emerges on who's funding it ... and for how much Legal07 Feb 2022 | 23
Suspected Chinese spies break into cloud accounts of News Corp journalists Read all about it – Beijing probably already has Security04 Feb 2022 | 30
Facebook fined peanuts after Giphy staff quit and firm didn't tell UK competition regulators £1.5m fine is 0.005% of social network's profits Legal04 Feb 2022 | 46
Open-source Kubernetes tool Argo CD has a high-severity path traversal flaw: Patch now Craft Helm chart, receive secrets Security04 Feb 2022 | 7
Phishing kits' use of man-in-the-middle reverse proxies is growing, warns Proofpoint Spoof site looks real because it is... but you're not talking to who you think Security03 Feb 2022 | 10
Nothing to scoff at: Crisps and nuts biz KP Snacks smacked in ransomware hack attack Firm doesn't know when it'll restart salty goodness deliveries Security03 Feb 2022 | 46
Former tech CIO jailed for setting up £475k backhander scam with IT outsourcing firm One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years Legal03 Feb 2022 | 21
Execs keep flinging money at us instead of understanding security, moan infosec pros Oh what a problem to have Security03 Feb 2022 | 17
UK think tank proposes Online Safety Bill reviewer to keep tabs on Ofcom decisions Terror watchdog is a bad model to follow, though Security02 Feb 2022 | 23
Brocade wrongly sacked award-winning salesman who depended on company insurance for cancer treatment 'Global benefit' chief: Broadcom buyout means pay your own way Legal02 Feb 2022 | 93
DMCA-dot-com XSS vuln reported in 2020 still live today and firm has shrugged it off Researcher tells world after being stonewalled Security02 Feb 2022 | 10
Russia's naval exercise near Ireland unlikely to involve cable-tapping shenanigans Muscle-flexing rather than publicised 'sabotage right here' plan Security01 Feb 2022 | 110
US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea Where Britain leads, America follows Bootnotes28 Jan 2022 | 105
Internet Society condemns UK's Online Safety Bill for demonising encryption using 'think of the children' tactic Plus: Cops' surveillance is used against drug gangs and not child abusers, says Tutanota Security28 Jan 2022 | 67
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge Updated All eyes turn to Priti Patel as midnight extradition deadline looms Legal28 Jan 2022 | 82
Targeted ransomware takes aim at QNAP NAS drives, warns vendor: Get your updates done pronto Nasty demands hefty Bitcoin ransom Security27 Jan 2022 | 19
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations Exclusive Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement Security27 Jan 2022 | 70
Mike Lynch loses US extradition delay bid: Flight across the Atlantic looks closer than ever Autonomy founder set for criminal trial on multiple counts of fraud over sale of biz to HPE Legal26 Jan 2022 | 56
Infosec big dogs break out the bubbly over UK government's latest cyber strategy emission See that? That's a promise of fat contracts, that is Security26 Jan 2022 | 8
Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k Now you see a harmless PNG. Now it's a malicious payload. Look into my eyes Security26 Jan 2022 | 20