UK.gov teams up with Five Eyes chums to emit spotters' guide for miscreants' hack tools
Crouching tiger, hidden APT
Security11 Oct 2018 | 12
John was The Register's cybersecurity reporter, and a journalist for our publisher for 18 years until 2018.
In the two years since Dyn went dark, what have we learned? Not much, it appears
DNS infrastructures still vulnerable to attacks
Security11 Oct 2018 | 26
Mozilla grants distrusted Symantec certs a stay of execution, claims many sites yet to make switch
Delay 'in the overall best interest' of Firefox users
Security11 Oct 2018 | 27
China's clampdown on Tor pushes its hackers into foreign backyards
Comparing Middle Kingdom's hacker forums to Russia's? Apples and pears
Security10 Oct 2018 | 4
Workplace services-flinger Sodexo pulls Engage website after division hit by malware smackdown
UK information commish is investigating
Security10 Oct 2018 | 9
Payment-card-skimming Magecart strikes again: Zero out of five for infecting e-retail sites
Customer ratings plugin treated to a malicious rewrite to swipe entered banking info
Security09 Oct 2018 | 10
It's a cert: Hundreds of big sites still unprepared for starring role in that Chrome 70's show
Bloody SSL...it's the final countdown
Security09 Oct 2018 | 25
Which? That smart home camera? The one with the vulns? Really?
Security experts confounded by consumer org's assessment
Security08 Oct 2018 | 45
Dutch cheesed off with Russians, expel four suspects over chemical weapons Wi-Fi spying
Russia hits back: Do not 'swallow these provocations'
Security04 Oct 2018 | 47
UK pins 'reckless campaign of cyber attacks' on Russian military intelligence
We know it was GRU
Security04 Oct 2018 | 44
Sendgrid blurts out OWN customers' email addresses with no help from hackers
Along came some spiders and saw the unsubscribers...
Security04 Oct 2018 | 15
VirusTotal slips on biz suit, says Google's daddy will help the search for nasties
Alphabet-owned VT upgraded for corporate threat hunters
Security28 Sep 2018 | 14
Resident evil: Inside a UEFI rootkit used to spy on govts, made by you-know-who (hi, Russia)
Deep dive into motherboard firmware-lurking code
Security28 Sep 2018 | 67
Looking after the corporate Apple mobile fleet? Beware: MDM onboarding is 'insecure'
Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle
Security27 Sep 2018 | 11
Linux kernel 'give me root, now' security hole sighted, dubbed 'Mutagen Astronomy'
Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS users at risk
OSes27 Sep 2018 | 30
Can't read my, can't read my... broker face: Premium Credit back online a week after cyber attack
Signs so far point to no data leak
Security26 Sep 2018 | 7
Open-source software supply chain vulns have doubled in 12 months
Hackers 'mainlining' vulns into projects – report
Security25 Sep 2018 | 19
Aggregate this: NewsNow has spilt a bunch of 'encrypted' passwords
Updated But no one will take the trouble to decipher them, right?
Security25 Sep 2018 | 1
WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until long after the war
Interview 92-year-old Wren tells us about life cracking German codes
Security25 Sep 2018 | 87
Bug? Feature? Power users baffled as BitLocker update switch-off continues
Microsoft claims issue confined to older kit
Security25 Sep 2018 | 41
Enigma message crack honours pioneering Polish codebreakers
Plus: The Reg chats to wartime Bombe operator Ruth Bourne
Security21 Sep 2018 | 39
Scottish brewery recovers from ransomware attack
Updated Trouble ferments after hackers lock system and Arran with it
Security21 Sep 2018 | 44
NSS Labs sues antivirus toolmakers, claims they quietly conspire to evade performance tests
Alleges CrowdStrike, Symantec, ESET, Anti-Malware Testing Standards Org collusion
Security20 Sep 2018 | 10
Sealed with an XSS: IT pros urge Lloyds Group to avoid web cross talk
Online login details could be harvested by miscreants – bank says: We're secure
Security20 Sep 2018 | 21
Patch for EE's 4G Wi-Fi mini modem nails local privilege escalation flaw
Better update if you leave your laptop unattended in public...
Security19 Sep 2018 | 5
Why waste away in a cubicle when you could be a goddamn infosec neuromancer on £50k*?
Basically what UK.gov is selling as it moves to plug skills gap
Security19 Sep 2018 | 43
Oh Smeg! Hacked white goods maker resurfaces after system shutdown
'No reason to believe' customer deets compromised
Security18 Sep 2018 | 45
TV Licensing admits: We directed 25,000 people to send their bank details in the clear
Finally said yes to HTTPS
Security18 Sep 2018 | 55
Check out this link! It's not like it'll crash your iPhone or anything (Hint: Of course it will)
A few lines of code that Apple's browser simply can't handle
Security17 Sep 2018 | 30
Brit airport pulls flight info system offline after attack by 'online crims'
No flight delays at Bristol base, miraculously*
Security17 Sep 2018 | 23
Who's hacking into UK unis? Spies, research-nickers... or rival gamers living in res hall?
Report fingers students and staff for academic cyber-attacks
Security17 Sep 2018 | 12
Veeam holds its hands up, admits database leak was plain 'complacency'
Co-CEO: 'We should have done a better job'
Security14 Sep 2018 | 12
Kernel sanders: Webroot vuln creates route to root Macs
Patched flaw hard to exploit, but serious once you get there, warn infoseccers
OSes14 Sep 2018 | 9
You'll never guess what you can do once you steal a laptop, reflash the BIOS, and reboot it
Video Hardware hackers bring cold boot attacks out of the deep freeze
Security14 Sep 2018 | 86
Back up a minute: Veeam database config snafu exposed millions of customer records
Firm helps self with own disaster recovery
Security12 Sep 2018 | 12
2-bit punks' weak 40-bit crypto didn't help Tesla keyless fobs one bit
Video Eggheads demo how to clone gizmo, nick flash motor in seconds – flaw now patched
Security12 Sep 2018 | 117
Law firm seeking leak victims to launch £500m suit at British Airways
Prosecutors rub their hands with glee
Security11 Sep 2018 | 29
British Airways hack: Infosec experts finger third-party scripts on payment pages
Airline yet to reveal breach's cause
Security11 Sep 2018 | 86
Register-Orbi-damned: Netgear account order irks infosec bods
Marketing data collection opens potential security nightmare
Security10 Sep 2018 | 28
Sextortion scum armed with leaked credentials are persistent pests
If you're going to batter 8,497 folk with over 60,000 threats, odds are someone will crack
Security10 Sep 2018 | 39
Revealed: British Airways was in talks with IBM on outsourcing security just before hack
Exclusive El Reg leaked memo sent weeks before crooks swiped payment cards
Security07 Sep 2018 | 61
Vodafone hounds Czech customers for bills after they were brute-forced with Voda-issued PINs
Crooks cracked phone number accounts with passcode '1234'
Security07 Sep 2018 | 29
It looks like tech-savvy drivers will have to lead connected car data purge
Manufacturers seem reluctant to do anything about it
Security07 Sep 2018 | 37
HTTPS crypto-shame: TV Licensing website pulled offline
Telly taxpayers' info sent in the clear
Security06 Sep 2018 | 78
Premera Blue Cross hacker victims claim insurer trashed server to hide data-slurp clues
Cover-up – or just admins following usual upgrade cycle?
Security06 Sep 2018 | 9
Silence! Cybercrime's Pinky and the Brain have nicked $800k off banks
One does dev, the other ops, and they're believed to be former white hats
Security05 Sep 2018 | 21
Cybercrooks home in on infosec's weakest link – you poor gullible people
Email fraud skyrockets and ransomware is back, baby!
Security05 Sep 2018 | 12
Thousands of misconfigured 3D printers on interwebz run risk of sabotage
Security controls aren't there to just look pretty, you know
Security04 Sep 2018 | 20
Excuse me, but your website's source code appears to be showing
Lock it down, lock it down now, researcher says
Security04 Sep 2018 | 52
Google cracks down on dodgy tech support ads
Verification programme aims to weed out the miscreants
Security03 Sep 2018 | 20
C'mon, if you say your device is 'unhackable', you're just asking for it: Bitfi retracts edgy claim
John McAfee-backed crypto-coin wallet eats humble pie
Security31 Aug 2018 | 19
Fourth 'Fappening' celeb nude snap thief treated to 8 months in the clink
Porridge for pic purloiner
Security31 Aug 2018 | 58
Cobalt cybercrooks phry up phishing campaign to phling at phinance orgs
Emails hiding dodgy scripts designed to plant backdoors
Security31 Aug 2018 | 3
Hackers latch onto new Apache Struts megavuln to mine cryptocurrency
Underground forums alight with Struts chat, we hear
Security30 Aug 2018 | 2
Hackers faked Cosmos backend to hoodwink bank out of $13.5m
Researchers dissect methods behind Indian cyber-heist
Security29 Aug 2018 | 16
ABBYY woes: Doc-reading software firm leaves thousands of scans blowing in wind
Surprise! Sensitive info held on misconfigured MongoDB server
Security29 Aug 2018 | 9
We're all sick of Fortnite, but the flaw found in its downloader is the latest way to attack Android
Man-in-the-Disk technique able to add malicious files to a device's external storage
Security29 Aug 2018 | 51
Footie fans calling for a red card over West Ham United CC email blunder
If you're after an away ticket, now you know who to call
Security28 Aug 2018 | 15
Give yourselves a pat on the back, top million websites, half of you now use HTTPS
Now for the other half
Security28 Aug 2018 | 30
Back to school soon – for script kiddies as well as normal kids. Hackers peddle cybercrime e-classes via Telegram
Bitcoin rather than student loan required for fraud classes
Security24 Aug 2018 | 11
Biting the hand that feeds IT
