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GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections

Never mind real-world viruses, get your networks into lockdown ASAP

17 Sep 2020

Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks

Should your policy cover that? Well that's up to you

06 Aug 2020

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

27 Jul 2020

UK's NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack

Switch on, urges GCHQ-backed public security agency

24 Jul 2020

Surprise surprise! Hostile states are hacking coronavirus vaccine research, warn UK and USA intelligence

Just ask us if you need help, urge NCSC and CISA

05 May 2020

UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

UpdatedHerd immunity all over again

05 May 2020

As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother

Whitehat and blackhat next?

02 May 2020

Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops

National Cyber Security Centre publishes scam-busting address

21 Apr 2020

GCHQ's infosec arm has 3 simple tips to secure those insecure smart home gadgets

UK.gov tries the KISS approach to infosec advice for the public

03 Mar 2020

Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally

Mainstream support officially ends today

14 Jan 2020

'Sophisticated' cyber attack on UK Labour Party platforms was probably just a DDoS, says official

'Really very everyday' – report

12 Nov 2019

Haxis of evil: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are 'continuous threat' to UK, say spies

National Cyber Security Centre handled 658 incidents last year

23 Oct 2019

American intelligence follows British lead in warning of serious VPN vulnerabilities

Now if only they'd accept the Queen back again...

10 Oct 2019

Uni sysadmins, don't relax. Cybercrooks are still after your crown jewels, warns NCSC

GCHQ offshoot says be on your guard

18 Sep 2019

UK MPs find 'no technical grounds' to exclude Huawei from 5G networks

Plus: American biz bods could say yes way to Zhengfei... in '2 to 4 weeks'

15 Jul 2019

Powershell, the Gandcrab infection and the long-forgotten server

CyberUK 2019GCHQ offshoot shares infosec hair-raisers

29 Apr 2019

It's your what in a box? Here's a thing to make your bosses think about malware responses

Cyber UK 2019You mean they already do? Pull the other one

25 Apr 2019

'We're not omnipotent,' trills National Cyber Security Centre in open-armed pitch to UK biz

Cyber UK 2019If we all chip in, we can help secure old Blighty

24 Apr 2019

Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages

IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

Looking for a new tech job? Just browsing? This week's list includes roles for devs, engineers, and Perl maestros

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

WeWork Won’tWork in China, at least not as majority owner

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

First they came for chess, then Go... and now, oh for crying out loud, AI systems can beat us at curling

SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents

All those ‘teleworking is the new normal’ predictions? Not so much, say bosses

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

First-world problems: The pumpkin spice latte is here, but the Starbucks loyalty card app has wiped my balance

Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

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GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections

Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks

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

UK's NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack

Surprise surprise! Hostile states are hacking coronavirus vaccine research, warn UK and USA intelligence

UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

As Brit cyber-spies drop 'whitelist' and 'blacklist', tech boss says: If you’re thinking about getting in touch saying this is political correctness gone mad, don’t bother

Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops

GCHQ's infosec arm has 3 simple tips to secure those insecure smart home gadgets

Step away from that Windows 7 machine, order UK cyber-cops: It's not safe for managing your cash digitally

'Sophisticated' cyber attack on UK Labour Party platforms was probably just a DDoS, says official

Haxis of evil: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are 'continuous threat' to UK, say spies

American intelligence follows British lead in warning of serious VPN vulnerabilities

Uni sysadmins, don't relax. Cybercrooks are still after your crown jewels, warns NCSC

UK MPs find 'no technical grounds' to exclude Huawei from 5G networks

Powershell, the Gandcrab infection and the long-forgotten server

It's your what in a box? Here's a thing to make your bosses think about malware responses

'We're not omnipotent,' trills National Cyber Security Centre in open-armed pitch to UK biz

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Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

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