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Here's some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise

When Larry said he wanted the app, he meant on his phone, not... oh God

Personal Tech27 Aug 2020 | 94

'My wife tried to order some clothes tonight. When she logged in, she was in someone else's account ... Now someone's charged her card'

Updated Register readers tell of the moment online fashion souk started leaking strangers' details at random

Security27 Aug 2020 | 64

Forget your space-age IT security systems. It might just take a $1m bribe and a willing employee to be pwned

Updated Elon Musk suggests Tesla targeted by Russian charged with trying to bung staffer cash to infect own bosses' network during DDoS distraction

Security26 Aug 2020 | 51

US election 2020: The disinfo operations have evolved, but so have state governments

Officials are better prepared for meddling – so attackers have had to rely on mental games

Security26 Aug 2020 | 52

iPhone soon to be Hecho en Mexico? Taiwan's Foxconn, Pegatron mulling going south of the US border – report

Plus other gadget makers, too, we're told, amid China trade fears

Personal Tech26 Aug 2020 | 10

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

Netizens up in arms over unexpected UI change, missing add-ons support

Software25 Aug 2020 | 155

US Air Force shows off latest all-electric flying car, says it 'might seem straight out of a Hollywood movie'

Not a Hollywood action flick by the looks of it

Science24 Aug 2020 | 57

Canadian shipping company Canpar gets an unwanted delivery – ransomware

In brief Meanwhile, Gmail finally deals with a 'confused mailman' problem

Security24 Aug 2020 | 7

Apple hits back at Epic, says Fortnite crew wants a 'free ride' on fees: Let the app store death match commence

What's a monopoly? asks iGiant

Software22 Aug 2020 | 99

Utes gotta be kidding me... University of Utah handed $457K to ransomware creeps

'After careful consideration' uni decided to pay up using its insurance policy

Security21 Aug 2020 | 20

Putting the d'oh! in Adobe: 'Years of photos' permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update

Please, please, please back up your files, people

Software21 Aug 2020 | 194

Ex-Uber chief security officer charged, accused of covering up theft of personal info from databases by hackers

Say it ain't Joe?

Security20 Aug 2020 | 10

Reap it in the family: Four brothers accused of cheating Amazon out of $19m in wholesaler fraud caper

Homeland Security swoops on quad who allegedly committed worst US crime of all: Defrauding Big Business

Personal Tech20 Aug 2020 | 15

Thanks for the memories... now pay up or else: Maze ransomware crew claims to have hacked SK hynix, leaks '5% of stolen files'

More expected to leak unless extortionists are paid off

Security20 Aug 2020 | 12

FCC: Remember that confidential paperwork you gave us, China Telecom? Yeah, well, we're handing it over to the Feds

Chinese telco's pleas to not be booted out of America will be passed to prosecutors

Networks19 Aug 2020 | 9

Ex-Apple engineer lifts lid on Uncle Sam's top-secret plan to turn customized iPod into 'Geiger counter'

This article will self-destruct in five seconds

Bootnotes19 Aug 2020 | 77

US senators: WikiLeaks 'likely knew it was assisting Russian intelligence influence effort' in 2016 Dem email leak

And: 'Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks' to help Donald Trump win White House race

Security18 Aug 2020 | 33

Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store

In brief Plus: Someone's gunning for Mac developers

OSes17 Aug 2020 | 10

Where there's a .mil, there's Huawei: Pentagon allowed to keep using Chinese tech deemed too dangerous for everyone else – report

DoD said to get extension to avoid crackdown on Chinese comms kit

Networks15 Aug 2020 | 36

Shocking no one, not enough foreigners applied for H-1B visas this year so US govt ran a second lottery

So surprising, what with the pandemic and Uncle Sam being so welcoming for immigrants right now

Legal14 Aug 2020 | 57

NHS tests COVID-19 contact-tracing app that may actually work properly – EU neighbors lent a helping hand

Not just Germany stepping up to the plate – Ireland, too, we're told

Applications14 Aug 2020 | 125

This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit

From Russia, with love

Security13 Aug 2020 | 67

You weren't hacked because you lacked space-age network defenses. Nor because cyber-gurus picked on you. It's far simpler than that

Three little words: Patches, passwords, policies

Security13 Aug 2020 | 36

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

Final update CEO says making cyber-cabbies employees would be a bridge too far

Science12 Aug 2020 | 116

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

Full details of security vuln plus proof-of-concept exploits revealed

Security12 Aug 2020 | 4

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Cash-strapped privacy devs face determined miscreants who keep coming back for more

Security12 Aug 2020 | 37

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Patch Tuesday Please, thanks, good show, cheers, ta

OSes11 Aug 2020 | 17

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State

Systems10 Aug 2020 | 28

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

DEF CON In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants

Security10 Aug 2020 | 29

We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

Gutted Sears, JC Penney locations could become 'fulfillment centers'

Personal Tech10 Aug 2020 | 59

Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

In brief Plus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users

Security10 Aug 2020 | 41

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

DEF CON Bug-hunter details how his team slurped data… IN SPAAAAACE

Security07 Aug 2020 | 22

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

DEF CON Demirkapi shows how drivers can be misused for deep pwnage

OSes07 Aug 2020 | 6

When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online

Black Hat China can't hold a candle to GRU's shenanigans, says expert

Security06 Aug 2020 | 53

US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community

Black Hat ES&S takes the bold step of not ignoring vulnerability reports

Security06 Aug 2020 | 19

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

Black Hat Get. The. Terms. Of. The. Audit. In. Writing

Security05 Aug 2020 | 49

America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears

Black Hat 'We need to prepare for a number of scenarios that may not come to fruition' says Prof Blaze

Security05 Aug 2020 | 12

Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program's architect thinks the money could be better spent

'A secure dev lifecycle has a much higher ROI than letting the public do the bug detection work for you'

Security04 Aug 2020 | 20

As the world descends into madness, it's good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches

Qualcomm bugs among the worst – including a critical hole in wireless networking

Security04 Aug 2020 | 16

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster

Networks04 Aug 2020 | 31

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs

Security04 Aug 2020 | 80

Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets

When will this madness end?

Security03 Aug 2020 | 47

Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security

Chances of it getting enacted in time for November – slim to almost nil

Security03 Aug 2020 | 39

Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday

In Brief Meanwhile, KDE desktops can be pwned by evil archives

OSes03 Aug 2020 |

IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos

Biz and city officials 'frequently ignored' invoice rules, prosecutors said

Software01 Aug 2020 | 14

EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews

Russian, Chinese, Nork groups named in bank asset freeze

Security31 Jul 2020 | 14

Fun fact: If you noticed a while ago Zoom's web client going AWOL for a week, it's because someone found a passcode-cracking hole

Story behind a hasty teardown, fixing of a brute-force vulnerability

Security31 Jul 2020 | 8

Glum Alphabet execs look up from red-ink ad figures. What will we do, they ask. Ahem, coughs Google Cloud

Chocolate Factory's as-a-service stuff grows as advertising, profit takes a tumble

SaaS31 Jul 2020 | 7

YOU... SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps

Because no one likes to install spoof system files

OSes29 Jul 2020 | 7

GRUB2, you're getting too bug for your boots: Config file buffer overflow is a boon for malware seeking to drill deeper into a system

We're gonna keeping punning this until someone pays us $5m

OSes29 Jul 2020 | 32

AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space

Chipzooky's fortunes are Ryzen Epyc-ly

Systems29 Jul 2020 | 38

Intel couldn't shrink to 7nm on time – but it was able to reduce one thing: Its chief engineer's employment

What, or rather, who's that going under wheels of Chipzilla's bus?

Science27 Jul 2020 | 87

Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections

If you're still using a vulnerable box, you ought to factory reset it before patching

Security27 Jul 2020 | 19

Psst.. You may want to patch this under-attack data-leaking Cisco bug – and these Ripple20 hijack flaws

In Brief Plus: US govt sounds the alarm on industrial equipment attacks

Security25 Jul 2020 | 4

It's a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3,000+ insecure databases – and a data-wiping bot

ProtoVPN IP range fingrered as source of destructive attacks

Databases24 Jul 2020 | 35

Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist

Be careful about bunking off when you're billing your hours to a government

Security24 Jul 2020 | 78

Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons

Insurer is first biz to be charged in New York for data security negligence after exposing millions of records to the web

Security23 Jul 2020 | 20

Ubiquiti, go write on the board 100 times, 'I must validate input data before using it'... Update silently breaks IDS/IPS

Bad traffic rules from HQ caused intrusion detection and prevention on gateways to just stop working

Security23 Jul 2020 | 11

Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters

No honor among thieves

Security23 Jul 2020 | 31

Twilio: Someone waltzed into our unsecured AWS S3 silo, added dodgy code to our JavaScript SDK for customers

Exclusive API dev kit remained modified for hours, says source

Security21 Jul 2020 | 22

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Here's some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise

'My wife tried to order some clothes tonight. When she logged in, she was in someone else's account ... Now someone's charged her card'

Forget your space-age IT security systems. It might just take a $1m bribe and a willing employee to be pwned

US election 2020: The disinfo operations have evolved, but so have state governments

iPhone soon to be Hecho en Mexico? Taiwan's Foxconn, Pegatron mulling going south of the US border – report

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn't. Bad news: It's working as intended

US Air Force shows off latest all-electric flying car, says it 'might seem straight out of a Hollywood movie'

Canadian shipping company Canpar gets an unwanted delivery – ransomware

Apple hits back at Epic, says Fortnite crew wants a 'free ride' on fees: Let the app store death match commence

Utes gotta be kidding me... University of Utah handed $457K to ransomware creeps

Putting the d'oh! in Adobe: 'Years of photos' permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update

Ex-Uber chief security officer charged, accused of covering up theft of personal info from databases by hackers

Reap it in the family: Four brothers accused of cheating Amazon out of $19m in wholesaler fraud caper

Thanks for the memories... now pay up or else: Maze ransomware crew claims to have hacked SK hynix, leaks '5% of stolen files'

FCC: Remember that confidential paperwork you gave us, China Telecom? Yeah, well, we're handing it over to the Feds

Ex-Apple engineer lifts lid on Uncle Sam's top-secret plan to turn customized iPod into 'Geiger counter'

US senators: WikiLeaks 'likely knew it was assisting Russian intelligence influence effort' in 2016 Dem email leak

Feds seize 'largest ever' haul of crypto-dosh from terrorists – including coins from 'fake' pandemic mask web store

Where there's a .mil, there's Huawei: Pentagon allowed to keep using Chinese tech deemed too dangerous for everyone else – report

Shocking no one, not enough foreigners applied for H-1B visas this year so US govt ran a second lottery

NHS tests COVID-19 contact-tracing app that may actually work properly – EU neighbors lent a helping hand

This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit

You weren't hacked because you lacked space-age network defenses. Nor because cyber-gurus picked on you. It's far simpler than that

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online

US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community

Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle

America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears

Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program's architect thinks the money could be better spent

As the world descends into madness, it's good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets

Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security

Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday

IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos

EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews

Fun fact: If you noticed a while ago Zoom's web client going AWOL for a week, it's because someone found a passcode-cracking hole

Glum Alphabet execs look up from red-ink ad figures. What will we do, they ask. Ahem, coughs Google Cloud

YOU... SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps

GRUB2, you're getting too bug for your boots: Config file buffer overflow is a boon for malware seeking to drill deeper into a system

AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space

Intel couldn't shrink to 7nm on time – but it was able to reduce one thing: Its chief engineer's employment

Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections

Psst.. You may want to patch this under-attack data-leaking Cisco bug – and these Ripple20 hijack flaws

It's a Meow-nixed system, I know this: Purr-fect storm of 3,000+ insecure databases – and a data-wiping bot

Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist

Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons

Ubiquiti, go write on the board 100 times, 'I must validate input data before using it'... Update silently breaks IDS/IPS

Shocked I am. Shocked to find that underground bank-card-trading forums are full of liars, cheats, small-time grifters

Twilio: Someone waltzed into our unsecured AWS S3 silo, added dodgy code to our JavaScript SDK for customers

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