We don't need no STEENKIN' exploit brokers: Let's FLATTEN all bug bounties
The good, the bad and the ugly - all $150k apiece
Security23 Dec 2013 | 26
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Worried OpenSSL uses NSA-tainted crypto? This BUG has got your back
Discovered software blunder disabled distrusted random number generator
Security20 Dec 2013 | 34
Code-busters lift RSA keys simply by listening to the noises a computer makes
Don't put your mobe down by your machine. In fact just chuck it in the river
Security19 Dec 2013 | 29
Casino DDoS duo caged for five years after blackmail buyout threat
Polish crims demanded 50% of gambling biz, on pain of firm-killing cyber attacks
Security19 Dec 2013 | 5
First China banned Bitcoin. Now its crooks are using malware to steal traders' wallets
New nasty specifically targets Bitcoin China exchange
Security19 Dec 2013 | 21
Macbook webcams CAN spy on you - and you simply CAN'T TELL
iSight blindsided by cunning Johns Hopkins securo-bods
Security19 Dec 2013 | 80
Soghoian & Greenwald tell EU bigwigs: Fight state snooping on mobe networks NOW
Never mind roaming fees, what about data security?
Security19 Dec 2013 | 4
Oi, bank manager. Only you've got my email address - where're these TROJANS coming from?
Santander scratches head over mystery malware barrage
Security19 Dec 2013 | 79
$1,000 BOUNTY offered for FINGERPRINTS of a GLOBAL SPY CHIEF
Privacy campaigner: NSA, GCHQ, NZSIS* - take your pick
Security18 Dec 2013 | 26
UK payday loaners cop MEGA £175K fine for 'misleading' SMS spam
Texts 'designed' to look like they were 'from a friend' - complaints
Security17 Dec 2013 | 42
Android nasty sends your texts to CHINA
Best hope you weren't messaging your bank manager
Security17 Dec 2013 | 16
Bogus Firefox add-on FORCES WITLESS USERS to join vuln-hunting party
Install fake Microsoft extra, become SQL-squirting zombie
Security17 Dec 2013 | 11
Android antivirus apps CAN'T kill nasties on sight like normal AV - and that's Google's fault
Bad news if you're not a tech-savvy fandroid
Security17 Dec 2013 | 53
Security guru Bruce Schneier to leave employer BT
Exclusive Nothing to do with criticising GCHQ and the NSA, insists telco
Security16 Dec 2013 | 69
Apple fanbois warned: No, Cupertino HASN'T built a Bitcoin mining function into Macs
If you follow tech guidelines from 4chan, you're an idiot
Security13 Dec 2013 | 71
Cardslurping kingpin caged for 18 years over Carderplanet forum
'eBay for credit card fraud' founder earns self extended stay at Club Fed
Security13 Dec 2013 | 24
UK.gov chucks another £260m at MOOC-based cyber security training
Doom-mongers warn cybercrime will destroy ALL - unless you buy their gear
Legal13 Dec 2013 | 9
Cryptolocker copycat ransomware emerges – but an antidote is possible
Security upstart claims it's found a file-gobbling nasty with weak encryption
Security13 Dec 2013 | 34
Cops cuff 4 in £1m banking fraud malware case
Two charged in cash-slurping email probe
Legal12 Dec 2013 | 6
French gov used fake Google certificate to read its workers' traffic
Liberté, égalité ... invisibilité: Homme-dans-l'intermédiaire snooping at treasury dept
Security10 Dec 2013 | 49
Malware+pr0n surge follows police op to kill illicit streaming sites
Cops fall foul of the law of unintended consequences
Security10 Dec 2013 | 41
Evil Dexter lurks in card reader, ready to SLASH UP your credit score
Modified malware grabs credit card details of 20,000
Security10 Dec 2013 | 10
Oi, Obama. Rein your spooks in, demands web giants' alliance
Where the US leads, the world follows – or so tech's big dogs hope
Security09 Dec 2013 | 34
PayPal 13 plead guilty to launching DDoS attacks
As Ebay chairman pleads: Don't make payback a bitch for them
Legal09 Dec 2013 | 26
Mexican Cobalt-60 robbers are DEAD MEN, say authorities
Bungling bandits liable to have sustained fatal rad dose in truck snatch blunder
Security06 Dec 2013 | 136
Microsoft teams up with Feds, Europol in ZeroAccess botnet zombie hunt
Just don't bork our crim-busting honeypots again
Security06 Dec 2013 | 9
Fiendish CryptoLocker ransomware survives hacktivists' takedown
Proper post-op analysis would have killed it for good, says ex-rozzer
Security06 Dec 2013 | 64
Decent chance of your team winning the World Cup? You'll probably want to watch it
Survey: Germans, Brazilians 'most active' in search for World Cup tickets
Legal06 Dec 2013 | 3
Microsoft: C'mon, you can trust us... look at our gov spook-busting plans
We'll challenge NSA-shielding gag orders, thunders Redmond's top legal eagle
Security05 Dec 2013 | 33
Hear that? It's the sound of BadBIOS wannabe chatting over air gaps
LANs-free prototype mimics notorious rootkit
Security05 Dec 2013 | 58
Microsoft: Anonymous hacktivists DDoSed us? Really?
So Anonymous, we didn't even register their, ahem, 'total domain takedown'
Security05 Dec 2013 | 8
Must try HARDER, infosec lads: We're RUBBISH at killing ZOMBIES
Botnet decap should be a team effort – ex-detective infosec bod
Security04 Dec 2013 | 16
The only way is Office: UK Parliament to migrate to Microsoft cloud
Update Office 365 rollout to become default post-election option
Legal03 Dec 2013 | 87
Your browser may be up to date: But what about the PLUGINS?
Watch out when shopping online this Xmas, plead security pros who'd love to help
Security02 Dec 2013 | 8
Referee and two others charged in FA hacking probe
Offside?
Legal29 Nov 2013 | 4
Blighty's top moneymen: Hackers are SLURPING CASH direct from banks
Bank of England warns financial institutions to take cyber-crime threat seriously
Security29 Nov 2013 | 6
Fancy knocking off early? Just run our fake computer crash 'virus', say admen
Bosses worldwide explode in rage at bogus bork campaign
Security29 Nov 2013 | 45
'Neverquest' bank-robber 'ware throws the whole Trick Book at victims
Carberp? ZeuS? Get into the fridge, grandad
Security29 Nov 2013 |
Think unpatched Win XP hole's not a big deal? Hope you trust your local users
Vulnerability used to breathe life into Adobe Reader exploit, Microsoft warns
OSes28 Nov 2013 | 28
You have a Skype voicemail. PSYCHE! It's just some fiendish Trojan-flinging spam
UK plod warn punters NOT to unzip those files
Security28 Nov 2013 | 20
Google: YouTube fights off HUGE ASCII PHALLUS MENACE
Pr0ntastic commenters are having their way with Google
Security28 Nov 2013 | 36
GCHQ was called in to crack password in Watkins child abuse case
Not just battling terrorists, it hunts down online predators too
Security27 Nov 2013 | 77
NSA spied on 'radicalisers' porn surfing so as to discredit them, reveals Snowden
Ninety per cent of people surf porn, ten per cent are liars
Security27 Nov 2013 | 75
European Parliament reports HACK ATTACK, turns off public Wi-Fi
Just 1 week after exposé about its merde sécurité de l'information
Legal26 Nov 2013 | 8
These lucky people get paid to play cyber war games
NATO cybersecurity bods to fly to Estonia for infosec Cluedo
Security26 Nov 2013 | 5
Angela Merkel's phone was being listened in on by FIVE foreign powers
If your spooks aren't tapping Merkel, you should fire them really
Security26 Nov 2013 | 41
Tolkien 'almost became WWII code-breaker alongside Alan Turing'
New biopic apparently not titled 'Not Another F**king Elf'
Bootnotes25 Nov 2013 | 19
Rare AutoCAD malware rigs drafting machines for follow-up attacks
The FASt can be furious, warn security pros
Security25 Nov 2013 | 12
NSA installed '50,000 malware sleeper cells' in world computer networks
Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently
Security25 Nov 2013 | 31
Leaked MS ad video parodies Chrome as surveillance tech
Kettle, Kettle, come in, over. Kettle, kettle, do you copy, this is Pot, over
Networks25 Nov 2013 | 45
We're making too much say CryptoLocker scum in ransom price cut
Bitcoin bubble prompts 'generous' cybercrooks to slash their demands
Security25 Nov 2013 | 43
XBOX ONE and PS4, you'll make us RUN OUT of INTERNET
The internet is finite, warn Blue Coat killjoys
Personal Tech22 Nov 2013 | 40
Meet the man who'll TAKE OVER if UK faces CYBER ATTACK
Chris Gibson to head up UK’s national Computer Emergency Response Team
Security22 Nov 2013 | 6
Mystery traffic redirection attack pulls net traffic through Belarus, Iceland
There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.
Security22 Nov 2013 | 59
Bug bounty upstart thinks there's BIG MONEY in crowdtesting
They might be onto something by outsourcing it, though
SaaS22 Nov 2013 | 2
Stolen CREDIT CARD details? Nah... crooks desire your PRIVATES
Hackers need to get PERSONAL to score the big bucks - researchers
Security22 Nov 2013 | 7
ICO: Private dicks broke data-protection rules when they blagged data
Fate of ICU Investigations to be decided next year, says judge
Legal21 Nov 2013 | 10
Meet Stuxnet's stealthier older sister: Super-bug turned Iran's nuke plants into pressure cookers
Analysis New report documents Mark I cyber-weapon build
Security21 Nov 2013 | 28
Darknet: It's not just for DRUGS. Ninja Banking Trojan uses it too
Baddies even offer a 'help desk' with a ticketing system
Security21 Nov 2013 | 9
Data of 42 MILLION seekers for love plundered from Aussie dating site
Indications are this was the hackers behind the Adobe raid
Security20 Nov 2013 | 14
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