Hacker

Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit

Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart

Security07 Oct 2022 | 4

Microsoft warns of North Korean crew posing as LinkedIn recruiters

State-sponsored ZINC allegedly passes on malware-laden open source apps

Research30 Sep 2022 | 10

Student crashes Cloudflare beta party, redirects email, bags a bug bounty

Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000

Research04 Aug 2022 | 8

BreachForums booms on the back of billion-record Chinese data leak

Plenty of recent users appear to be from China, and hoping for more leaks of local data

Security29 Jul 2022 |

Your snoozing iOS 15 iPhone may actually be sleeping with one antenna open

No, you're not really gonna be hacked. But you may be surprised

Research19 May 2022 | 40

Cooler heads needed in heated E2EE debate, says think tank

RUSI argues for collaboration, while others note all 'scans' compromise secure encryption

Security05 Apr 2022 | 45

Borat RAT: Multiple threat of ransomware, DDoS and spyware

Thought Sacha Baron Cohen was a terrible threat actor? Get a load of this: encrypts/steals data, records audio/video and controls keyboard

Security04 Apr 2022 | 6

US says Russian ran online marketplace of stolen logins

Cyber-souk offered bundle deals of account access and credit card info, says Uncle Sam

Security23 Mar 2022 | 3

Ex-US intel, military trio were cyber-mercenaries for UAE, say prosecutors

Three men charged with breaking export, security laws, agree to deal after infiltrating smartphones with zero-click exploits

Security15 Sep 2021 | 22

Jailed for seven years: Cyber-crook who broke into Big Biz to steal bank card info for FIN7 super-gang

Also ordered to pay back $2.5m on his way to American cooler

Security25 Jun 2021 | 7

Remember those wacky cyberpunk costumes in Hackers? They're on display in London this week

'Medieval mixed with athletic wear' chic from 1995

Security01 Jun 2021 | 51

So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'

Register debate The votes have been cast and counted... and it's a landslide

Security09 Mar 2021 | 146

Someone tried to poison a Florida city by hijacking its water treatment plant via TeamViewer, says sheriff

Attempt to flood supply with sodium hydroxide thwarted, safeguards would have kicked in anyway, we're told

Security09 Feb 2021 | 83

Researchers unmask Indian 'infosec' firm to reveal hacker-for-hire op that targeted pretty much anyone clients wanted

And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that meddling Citizen Lab

Security09 Jun 2020 | 7

Facebook loses control of its own Twitter account in hacker attack – and more news

Roundup Including: Why was #RootGoat2020 trending on Twitter? It is as silly as you think

Security10 Feb 2020 | 13

Remember that competition for non-hoodie hacker pics? Here's their best entries

And we invite you to grab your easel and brush

Security28 Oct 2019 | 78

US still 'not prepared' in event of a serious cyber attack and Congress can't help if it happens

DEF CON Politicians appeal to hackers to take up the fight

Security12 Aug 2019 | 16

Fed-up graphic design outfit dangles cash to anyone who can free infosec of hoodie pics

Make stock images great again!

Security01 Aug 2019 | 153

US man and Brit teen convict indicted over school bomb threat spree

Roses are reddish, don't cry into your beer... but Hoonigan.com is better than Top Gear

Security14 Feb 2019 | 23

Black hats are great for language diversity, says Eugene Kaspersky

FIC2019 Also reckons Russian hackers go quiet over the Christmas holidays

Security23 Jan 2019 | 8

If you wanna learn from the IT security blunders committed by hacked hospital group, here's some weekend reading

Database intrusion should not have succeeded, probe finds, but...

Security11 Jan 2019 | 19

Scumbag hackers lift $1m from children's charity

Utter asshats pull seven-figure heist on Save the Children Foundation

Security14 Dec 2018 | 45

AI-powered IT security seems cool – until you clock miscreants wielding it too

Comment Field both embraced, feared by enterprise

Security01 Oct 2018 | 20

Hacky hack on whack 'Hacky Hack Hack' Mac chaps hack attack rap cut some slack

Translation: No jail time for Oz Apple file teen thief

Security28 Sep 2018 | 8

Trump's axing of cyber czar role has left gaping holes in US defence

Comment Damning report shows Uncle Sam falling behind

Security27 Sep 2018 | 52

The curious sudden rise of free US election 'net security guardians

Analysis There is no such thing as a gratis lunch, after all

Security22 Sep 2018 | 20

C'mon, biz: Give white hats a chance to tell you how screwed you are

... before black hats prove it

Security18 Sep 2018 | 8

Equifax IT staff had to rerun hackers' database queries to work out what was nicked – audit

And let security kit fail for 10 months due to bad cert

Security17 Sep 2018 | 43

Security procedures are good – follow them and you get to keep your job

Sidestepping them to be 'more productive' impresses no one

Security14 Sep 2018 | 31

Generally Disclosing Pretty Rapidly: GDPR strapped a jet engine on hacked British Airways

Analysis Suddenly, corps in a rush to fess up to e-break-ins

Security12 Sep 2018 | 51

Email security crisis... What email security crisis?

Let them eat phish

Security11 Sep 2018 | 65

Could you hack your bosses without hesitation, repetition or deviation? AI says: No

Comment Sprinkling a little machine learning into bad behavior detection

Security07 Sep 2018 | 12

Nope, the NSA isn't sitting in front of a supercomputer hooked up to a terrorist’s hard drive

Analysis They wish. Backdooring, encryption, and governments

Security06 Sep 2018 | 64

Black hats are baddie hackers, white hats are goodies, grey hats will sell IP to kids in hoodies

Survey says one in five security pros have been asked to screw over their employer

Security28 Aug 2018 | 17

Uni credential-swiping hack campaign linked to Iranian government

US firm Secureworks lifts lid on further targeting of academia

Security24 Aug 2018 | 13

Castaway hacker guilty of sedating children's hospital computers

He'll almost certainly get more than a three-hour tour after DDoS strike on medics

Security02 Aug 2018 | 11

Brit water firms, power plants with crap cyber security will pay up to £17m, peers told

Problem: they can't pay like banks can...

Security22 May 2018 | 43

Hey cool, you went serverless. Now you just have to worry about all those stale functions

No more unpatched servers, but alternative is hardly watertight

Devops15 May 2018 | 28

World's biggest DDoS-for-hire souk shuttered, masterminds cuffed

Webstresser.org taken down by Europol plod and chums

Security25 Apr 2018 | 6

Hackers nip into celeb plastic surgery clinic, tuck away 'terabytes'

'The Dark Overlord' threatening to distribute patient images

Security24 Oct 2017 | 27

Leicestershire teen admits attempting to hack director of the CIA

Faces sentencing in December

Legal06 Oct 2017 | 42

Game of Pwns: Hackers invade HBO, 'leak Game of Thrones script'

Entertainment giant acknowledges attack, stays mum on details

Security31 Jul 2017 | 27

Phiendish phisher gets phive years in phederal for $2m phlights phraud

Hope he enjoyed the extradition flight – it'll be his last for a while

Security06 Jun 2017 | 9

Police watchdog investigates illegal outsourced Indian hackers scandal

Will the whistleblower please identify himself, asks IPCC

Security11 May 2017 | 24

Zombie webcams? Pah! It's the really BIG 'Things' that scare me

Internet of Little Things – same vulns, same mistakes as IoT brother

Edge + IoT15 Mar 2017 | 33

US and Russia engaged in legal tug of war over LinkedIn hack suspect

The Cyber Cold War, everyone

Security27 Jan 2017 | 8

St Jude patching Merlin@home heart kit

Be still my beating heart

Security10 Jan 2017 | 10

Silver screen script hacker and dox douche gets 5 years in US cooler

Hello [celebrity], please reset your password

Security08 Dec 2016 | 10

Japan investigating defence network break-in

The usual unnamed 'state-based' attacker blamed

Security28 Nov 2016 | 10

TalkTalk teen hacker pleads guilty as firm reveals £22m profit jump

95,000 subs left after hack – 94,000 joined in last six months

Security15 Nov 2016 | 59

NullCrew's Canadian telco hacker thrown in the clink for four years

Teenage crimes lead to adult punishments

Security02 Nov 2016 | 4

UK will retaliate against state-sponsored cyber attacks, Chancellor warns

Microsoft Future Decoded Middle path between cheek-turning and all-out war

Security01 Nov 2016 | 33

LinkedIn, Dropbox hack suspect named as Yevgeniy Nikulin by US prosecutors

Russia hoping to block accused miscreant's extradition

Security24 Oct 2016 | 13

London-based Yahoo! hacker gets 11 years for SQLi mischief

He'll only serve two years, though

Legal23 Sep 2016 | 22

A Russian cyber-gang, the Oracle MICROS hack, and five more POS makers in crims' sights

Who, what, when, why, how?

Security12 Aug 2016 | 9

Fresh hell for TalkTalk customers: TeamView trap unleashed

Top management's attention snagged

Channel13 Jun 2016 | 74