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Three US states plus Washington DC sue Google for using UI design 'dark patterns' to harvest your location

Position of data permission controls designed to deceive, trio of lawsuits claim

24 Jan 2022 22:12 | 27

Exclusive

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?

21 Jan 2022 11:24 | 120

Legal

LAPD cops who preferred playing Pokémon Go to tackling robbery can be fired, appeals court rules

Call of duty? Not when there's a Snorlax about

11 Jan 2022 20:12 | 33

Security

You better have patched those Log4j holes or we'll see what a judge has to say – FTC

Apply fixes responsibly in a timely manner or face the wrath of Lina Khan

05 Jan 2022 22:30 | 9

Personal Tech

AT&T, Verizon delay 5G C-band rollout over FAA fears of passenger plane radars jammed by signals

Telcos miffed, pilots are fine with it

04 Jan 2022 22:20 | 36

Security

US bags Russian accused of bagging millions after stealing pre-release financial filings

Swiss cough up accused crim while Russia is 'deeply disappointed'

20 Dec 2021 22:23 | 27

Security

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

Report claims Huawei techs working for Chinese intelligence compromised Australian telco

18 Dec 2021 11:01 | 68

Security

CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

Federal agencies have a week to get their systems patched

17 Dec 2021 21:29 | 12

Security

Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets

Meta adverse to internet mercenaries using its social networks to help governments violate human rights

17 Dec 2021 01:41 | 25

Bootnotes

OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA

Most bizarre names chosen by UK drivers included ZZ Top and The Beast

09 Dec 2021 15:13 | 94

Security

American diplomats' iPhones reportedly compromised by NSO Group intrusion software

Reuters claims nine State Department employees outside the US had their devices hacked

04 Dec 2021 01:54 | 51

Off-Prem

US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy

19 Nov 2021 22:30 | 12

Personal Tech

Magnanimous Apple will allow people to fix their iPhones using parts bought from its Self Service Repair program

Have fun with those Cupertino-set prices, friends

17 Nov 2021 21:33 | 40

Networks

Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know

Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet

10 Nov 2021 01:57 | 25

Security

NSO fails once again to claim foreign sovereign immunity in WhatsApp spying lawsuit

US appeals court allows legal battle to resume, says it will be an 'easy case'

09 Nov 2021 00:53 | 27

Security

Ukrainian cuffed, faces extradition to US for allegedly orchestrating Kaseya ransomware infection

American, European officials announce raft of arrests, indictments, sanctions, rewards

08 Nov 2021 22:04 |

Updated

US Dept of Commerce sanctions NSO Group, Positive Technologies, other makers of snoopware

Yeah, that ought to do the trick

03 Nov 2021 20:50 | 24

Updated

Facebook ditches its creepy, controversial robot – yes, its facial-recognition AI

Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated

02 Nov 2021 21:47 | 14

Personal Tech

In latest DMCA review, US Copyright Office eases rules on computer security research, right to repair

Game console fixes are limited – and there's no allowance for exploit tools

29 Oct 2021 00:07 | 12

Security

Yet again, Cream Finance skimmed by crooks: $130m in crypto assets stolen

Third time's the unlucky charm for loan outfit

28 Oct 2021 19:59 | 16

Updated

Amazon warehouse workers in New York to labor watchdog: We want our union vote

Unions face test on Staten Island after defeat in Bessemer, Alabama

25 Oct 2021 23:18 | 15

Opinion

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

It worked on Jolly Roger, it can work on ProudWhiteGuy66373

25 Oct 2021 09:29 | 142

Networks

It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC

Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent

22 Oct 2021 19:52 | 22

Science

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged

21 Oct 2021 01:15 | 45

Security

Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations

20 Oct 2021 22:09 | 18

Personal Tech

There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon

UK Cabinet Office organises latest print hardware and supplies mega framework

18 Oct 2021 11:29 | 37

Security

Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Hopefully we're still listening to experts

15 Oct 2021 00:35 | 62

Legal

Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs

Report claims documents show employees abusing access

13 Oct 2021 22:01 | 14

Personal Tech

Tobacco giants don't get to decide who does research on smoking. Why does Facebook get to dictate studies?

Boffins tell US lawmakers social media titans cannot be trusted to police themselves

29 Sep 2021 01:43 | 26

Security

Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants

Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion

21 Sep 2021 19:59 | 9

On-Prem

Consultants' eyes light up as UK.gov dangles £4bn over 6 years for 'large-scale digital transformation programmes'

Phrase is catnip for software market

17 Sep 2021 13:45 | 9

Databases

UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration

'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told

16 Sep 2021 10:00 | 3

Analysis

Sort-of Epic win as judge kills Apple ban on apps linking to outside payment systems

Games maker weakens iGiant's control over iOS, loses its antitrust claims

10 Sep 2021 20:48 | 37

Security

Singapore adds a third bug bounty program – this time to fortify government digital services

HackerOne gets the gig

01 Sep 2021 04:14 |

Software

Thief milks CREAM Finance for $18m+ in cryptocurrency after spotting security bug

Reentrancy attack siphoned off millions

31 Aug 2021 00:59 | 5

Applications

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud

26 Aug 2021 23:35 | 18

Security

ProxyLogon flaw, evil emails, SQL injections used to open backdoors on Windows boxes

Multi-use toolkit deployed on victims' networks across Asia, North America

25 Aug 2021 19:50 |

Security

38 million records exposed by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM

Low-code platform comes with high expectations that folks understand security

23 Aug 2021 20:17 | 31

Personal Tech

Epic lawsuit's latest claims: Google slipped tons of cash to game devs, Android makers to cement Play store dominance

Read the allegations web giant tried to keep secret from the public

20 Aug 2021 20:26 | 47

Personal Tech

WhatsApp pulls plug on Taliban helpline, shuts down official-looking accounts

Terrorists' complaint service a bridge too far for encrypted chat biz

18 Aug 2021 01:11 | 32

Bootnotes

SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff

Combined with its Super Heavy booster, Starship stood briefly as the tallest rocket yet

07 Aug 2021 10:26 | 89

Security

US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO

Where there's a will, there's Huawei

06 Aug 2021 00:13 | 30

Security

Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship

And said entirely with a straight face, too

03 Aug 2021 20:15 | 38

Personal Tech

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

You miss every shot you don't take, we guess

30 Jul 2021 22:33 | 44

On-Prem

UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects

National Audit Office's scathing report blames fails on lack of experience

23 Jul 2021 09:15 | 116

Personal Tech

Biden order calls for net neutrality, antitrust action, ISP competition – and right to repair your own damn phone

Market dominance of tech giants in President's cross-hairs

09 Jul 2021 19:45 | 77

Offbeat

Gov.UK vows to chop red tape in the digital sector. What could possibly go wrong?

Answers on a postcard below

07 Jul 2021 07:45 | 45

Devops

Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters

Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study

01 Jul 2021 21:35 | 7

Feature

Who in America is standing up to privacy-bothering facial-recognition tech? Maine is right now leading the pack

'This technology is too dangerous to be regulated, it shouldn’t be used at all'

01 Jul 2021 00:06 | 16

Security

UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year

No indication any of it went on preventing theft of CCTV footage, though, eh Matt?

29 Jun 2021 15:45 | 23

Networks

Post-lunch snooze plans dashed as the UK tests its Emergency Alerts... again

Maybe turn your phone off if you don't fancy a 'loud, siren-like noise'

22 Jun 2021 11:45 | 44

Applications

Amazon notices Apple, Google cutting app store commission rates, follows suit

Keeps small-time devs on the reservation with AWS credits, too

18 Jun 2021 20:37 | 12

Offbeat

Wanted: Brexit grand fromage. £120k a year. Perks? Hmmmm…

Successful applicant must 'change existing thinking', which is odd as it's all been going so well up to now

18 Jun 2021 11:25 | 107

Personal Tech

Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?

17 Jun 2021 00:04 | 36

Security

School teacher accused of pocketing $1m+ in insider trading using tips from Silicon Valley pal

One of six guys charged over Infinera, Fortinet securities

16 Jun 2021 20:20 | 10

Applications

Biden cancels Trump's bans on TikTok, WeChat, other Chinese apps

But executive order expands on supply chain security initiative with call for evidence-based vetting of technology

10 Jun 2021 01:07 | 10

Personal Tech

Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America

Coincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing

04 Jun 2021 21:26 | 113

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Three US states plus Washington DC sue Google for using UI design 'dark patterns' to harvest your location

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

Lawmakers propose TLDR Act because no one reads Terms of Service agreements

Google says open source software should be more secure

Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline

LAPD cops who preferred playing Pokémon Go to tackling robbery can be fired, appeals court rules

You better have patched those Log4j holes or we'll see what a judge has to say – FTC

AT&T, Verizon delay 5G C-band rollout over FAA fears of passenger plane radars jammed by signals

US bags Russian accused of bagging millions after stealing pre-release financial filings

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets

OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA

American diplomats' iPhones reportedly compromised by NSO Group intrusion software

US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

Magnanimous Apple will allow people to fix their iPhones using parts bought from its Self Service Repair program

Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know

NSO fails once again to claim foreign sovereign immunity in WhatsApp spying lawsuit

Ukrainian cuffed, faces extradition to US for allegedly orchestrating Kaseya ransomware infection

US Dept of Commerce sanctions NSO Group, Positive Technologies, other makers of snoopware

Facebook ditches its creepy, controversial robot – yes, its facial-recognition AI

In latest DMCA review, US Copyright Office eases rules on computer security research, right to repair

Yet again, Cream Finance skimmed by crooks: $130m in crypto assets stolen

Amazon warehouse workers in New York to labor watchdog: We want our union vote

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC

Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told

Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls

There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon

Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs

Tobacco giants don't get to decide who does research on smoking. Why does Facebook get to dictate studies?

Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants

Consultants' eyes light up as UK.gov dangles £4bn over 6 years for 'large-scale digital transformation programmes'

UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration

Sort-of Epic win as judge kills Apple ban on apps linking to outside payment systems

Singapore adds a third bug bounty program – this time to fortify government digital services

Thief milks CREAM Finance for $18m+ in cryptocurrency after spotting security bug

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

ProxyLogon flaw, evil emails, SQL injections used to open backdoors on Windows boxes

38 million records exposed by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM

Epic lawsuit's latest claims: Google slipped tons of cash to game devs, Android makers to cement Play store dominance

WhatsApp pulls plug on Taliban helpline, shuts down official-looking accounts

SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff

US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO

Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship

Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

UK celebrates 25 years of wasteful, 'underperforming' government IT projects

Biden order calls for net neutrality, antitrust action, ISP competition – and right to repair your own damn phone

Gov.UK vows to chop red tape in the digital sector. What could possibly go wrong?

Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters

Who in America is standing up to privacy-bothering facial-recognition tech? Maine is right now leading the pack

UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year

Post-lunch snooze plans dashed as the UK tests its Emergency Alerts... again

Amazon notices Apple, Google cutting app store commission rates, follows suit

Wanted: Brexit grand fromage. £120k a year. Perks? Hmmmm…

Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive

School teacher accused of pocketing $1m+ in insider trading using tips from Silicon Valley pal

Biden cancels Trump's bans on TikTok, WeChat, other Chinese apps

Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America

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