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North Korea pulled in $400m in cryptocurrency heists last year – report
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16 Jan 2022 11:01 | 25
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Articles tagged with Security
Legal
Lawmakers propose TLDR Act because no one reads Terms of Service agreements
The bill calls for concise, machine readable summaries of how websites and apps use client data
14 Jan 2022 22:33 | 35
Software
Google says open source software should be more secure
At the White House Open Source Summit, the Chocolate Factory floated a few ideas to make that happen
14 Jan 2022 01:26 | 55
Security
Orca Security tells AWS fail tale with a happy ending
Those critical AWS flaws that exposed data and broke tenant separation? All fixed!
13 Jan 2022 21:02 | 4
Security
Volunteer Dutch flaw finders bag $100k to forward national bug bounty goal
Huntress Labs tips some loose change into vuln-spotters' cup
13 Jan 2022 08:33 |
Security
Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline
Bernalillo County's Metropolitan Detention Center still recovering from infection
12 Jan 2022 22:03 | 22
Patch Tuesday
Microsoft starts 2022 with big bundle fixes for 96 security bugs in its software
Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and programming errors
12 Jan 2022 01:14 | 11
Personal Tech
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 | 32
Science
European Space Agency: Come on, hack our satellite if you think you're hard enough
Space: The final frontier for cybersecurity
11 Jan 2022 17:15 | 16
Security
China puts Walmart in the naughty corner, citing 19 alleged cybersecurity 'violations'
Warning comes weeks after govt body accused subsidiary Sam’s Club of 'ulterior motive' in goods stocking spat
10 Jan 2022 13:35 | 17
Security
WebSpec, a formal framework for browser security analysis, reveals new cookie attack
Boffins in Vienna devise way to make software prove how it behaves
08 Jan 2022 08:45 | 23
Personal Tech
Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable
Want fatuous stuff that treats you with contempt? Look no further
07 Jan 2022 22:50 | 94
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
Security
Four years: That's how long Azure's App Service had a source code leak bug
Firm that found the flaw also spotted ChaosDB and OMIGOD, confident this one’s been exploited
24 Dec 2021 06:01 | 7
Security
Fisher Price's Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has adult privacy flaw
‘Chatter’ can be bugged thanks to kindergarten-grade security
23 Dec 2021 08:02 | 94
Security
Alibaba Cloud slapped by Chinese ministry for mishandling Log4j
Beijing's not saying what cloudy contender did wrong
23 Dec 2021 05:58 | 12
Security
Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability
Perpetrators' ID unknown, however
21 Dec 2021 12:33 | 60
Networks
The data must flow: America's 'Team Telecom' backs switch-on of Google and Meta's US-APAC undersea cable
Who's TT when it's at home? The DoJ, Defense dept, and Homeland Security
20 Dec 2021 23:30 | 32
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
Bad things come in threes: Apache reveals another Log4J bug
Third major fix in ten days is an infinite recursion flaw rated 7.5/10
19 Dec 2021 22:57 | 36
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
Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to patch
Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management can leak info via server-side request forgery
17 Dec 2021 02:28 | 6
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
Legal
British Mensa arm pays libel damages to former technology officer and director Eugene Hopkinson
Settles claims relating to cyber attack and data leak, court hears
16 Dec 2021 11:33 |
Security
Japan draws a LINE: web giants must reveal where they store user data
Looks a lot like a response to messaging services passing data through China
16 Dec 2021 06:46 | 4
Security
Facebook expands bug bounty program to include scraping attacks, two years after it was scraped – hard
But still allows limited harvesting
16 Dec 2021 01:33 | 6
Security
Apache takes off, nukes insecure feature at the heart of Log4j from orbit with v2.16
Now open-source logging library's JNDI disabled entirely by default, message lookups removed
14 Dec 2021 23:30 | 15
Analysis
Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments
Three years of pushback have produced few changes while search giant insists it's listening to netizens
14 Dec 2021 21:30 | 97
Security
Popular password manager LastPass to be spun out from LogMeIn
Private equity owners play pass the parcel
14 Dec 2021 17:11 | 34
Analysis
Log4j doesn't just blow a hole in your servers, it's reopening that can of worms: Is Big Biz exploiting open source?
Would more money have prevented this security flaw? Would the cash be useful in other ways anyway?
14 Dec 2021 01:55 | 111
In Brief
Is VPOTUS Bluetooth-phobic or sensible? The answer's pretty clear
Plus: bugs found on Mars! Of the software kind, of course
13 Dec 2021 17:01 | 29
Security
Ransomwared payroll provider leaks data on 38,000 Australian government workers
Frontier Software admitted attack three weeks ago, said data was safe … now it's on the dark web
10 Dec 2021 05:58 | 9
Off-Prem
WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'?
Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google
10 Dec 2021 03:16 | 5
Security
Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers
Certifies hardware with malware-crimping spec, already common in PCs, for Azure Stack and Windows Server
08 Dec 2021 05:15 | 6
Security
Microsoft wins court approval to take over sites run by Chinese crime gang
'Nickel' back in trouble for trying to lift secrets, often by exploiting Microsoft snafus
07 Dec 2021 05:31 | 10
Security
LINE Pay leaks around 133,000 users' data to GitHub, of all places
Someone just accidentally put it there, says the messaging service company
07 Dec 2021 04:03 | 3
Security
Spar shops across northern England shut after cyber attack hits payment processing abilities
Franchisees' closures also affect petrol stations
06 Dec 2021 18:41 | 27
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
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly
Take your breath awayyyyyyyy
03 Dec 2021 10:27 | 81
Security
BadgerDAO DeFi defunded as hackers apparently nab millions in crypto tokens
Badger, badger, badger, coin theft, coin theft!
02 Dec 2021 22:58 | 20
Legal
Ubiquiti dev charged with knocking $4bn off firm's value after insider threat spree
Prosecutors claim Nickolas Sharp even posed as a whistleblower to press
02 Dec 2021 21:05 | 8
Security
New UK product security law won't be undercut by rogue traders upping and vanishing, government boasts
El Reg asks about phoenixing – but will answer convince world+dog?
02 Dec 2021 09:15 | 38
Security
It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected
And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified
30 Nov 2021 20:11 | 5
Security
Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost
30 Nov 2021 04:27 | 10
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
Security
Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure
Boffins measure the black hole of dubious certs and find it troubling
19 Nov 2021 04:00 | 101
Security
Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams
Smartphones now have lasers so we're gonna use them to find voyeurs
18 Nov 2021 22:43 | 62
Security
Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub
GitHub: 'Credentials exposed by our users are not in scope'
18 Nov 2021 20:04 | 27
Security
The inside story of ransomware repeatedly masquerading as a popular JS library for Roblox gamers
Ongoing typosquatting attacks target kids as Discord drags its feet
16 Nov 2021 21:46 | 12
Security
GitHub fixes authorisation vulnerability in the NPM JavaScript package registry
Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package'
16 Nov 2021 17:33 | 4
Security
Intel's recent Atom, Celeron, Pentium chips can be lulled into a debug mode, potentially revealing system secrets
Testing times for Chipzilla as it emits patches to protect PCs, equipment
16 Nov 2021 08:29 | 12
Security
When the world ends, all that will be left are cockroaches and new Rowhammer attacks: RAM defenses broken again
Blacksmith is latest hammer horror
15 Nov 2021 21:46 | 18
On-Prem
He called himself the King of Fraud. Now this bot lord will reign in prison for years
Thousands of servers, hundreds of thousands of IP addresses used by scammer to drum up $7m in fake web advert impressions
13 Nov 2021 00:39 | 58
Applications
Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests
Ability to block 'view source' for specific URLs hasn't actually worked for years
12 Nov 2021 22:40 | 58
Security
Malicious Chrome extensions are bad. But what about nice ones that can be hijacked? This new tool spots them
DoubleX static analyzer is doubleplusgood
11 Nov 2021 08:36 | 5
Patch Tuesday
Let us give thanks that this November, Microsoft has given us just 55 security fixes, two of which are for actively exploited flaws
Light load has infosec bods wondering what awaits next month
09 Nov 2021 21:07 | 16
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 |
In brief
Will they try it for 30 days first? McAfee goes private again in $14bn cash deal
Plus: Uncle Sam gets tough on patching, NIST needs you, and more
08 Nov 2021 20:59 | 3
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