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WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job

Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself

17 Sep 04:58 | 5

Aviation-themed phishing campaign pushed off-the-shelf RATs into inboxes for 5 years

Not all promises of international flight itineraries are real, warns Cisco Talos

16 Sep 20:35 | 1

Hack yourself before someone else does it for you

Breach and attack simulation tools help you raise your game, Keysight says

Ransomware-hit law firm secures High Court judgment against unknown criminals

You tell 'em, 4 New Square chambers

16 Sep 15:15 | 20

Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral

Translation: Skills shortage here!

16 Sep 12:14 | 18

De-identify, re-identify: Anonymised data's dirty little secret

Jeffrey Singh, stamp-collecting bachelor (35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – is that you?

16 Sep 08:28 | 59

It's time to delete that hunter2 password from your Microsoft account, says IT giant

And go passwordless, use auth app, keys, Windows Hello, or codes to login

16 Sep 05:58 | 59

This is AUKUS for China – US, UK, Australia reveal defence tech-sharing pact

Will build nuke-powered subs together and share cyber, AI, quantum and mysterious 'undersea capabilities' tech

16 Sep 03:27 | 114

Ransomware crims saying 'We'll burn your data if you get a negotiator' can't be legally paid off anyway

Grief Corp are already under US sanctions, says Emsisoft

15 Sep 11:33 | 57

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

15 Sep 06:45 | 21

Microsoft's end-of-summer software security cleanse crushes more than 80 bugs

Hole in Azure Linux guest agent, MSHTML exploit tackled, and much more – Plus: Adobe and SAP issue updates

15 Sep 00:00 | 3

Krita art app users targeted by ransomware posing as paid 'collaboration' opportunities

Artists advised to delete emails asking them to download 'media bundle'

14 Sep 19:27 | 2

Security bods boost Apple iPhone hardware attack research with iTimed toolkit

'The first complete infrastructure to enable general-purpose hardware security experiments on the Apple iPhone SoCs,' they claim

Brits open doors for tech-enabled fraudsters because they 'don't want to seem rude'

Impersonation scams and smishing rocket, say UK Finance and Which?

14 Sep 15:15 | 24

Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz

Put your data on someone else's computer to keep it safe, urges Imperva

14 Sep 11:30 | 14

ExpressVPN bought for $1bn by Brit biz with an intriguing history in adware

'Kape has moved on from those times'

14 Sep 07:39 | 23

Apple emergency patches fix zero-click iMessage bug used to inject NSO spyware

Separate flaw in WebKit also under attack squashed, too – and two zero-days in Chrome, as well

13 Sep 23:06 | 54

How a glitch in the Matrix led to apps potentially exposing encrypted chats

Forget Agent Smith, we want to see Neo fighting implementation bugs

13 Sep 20:22 | 7

Open redirect on UK council website was being used for Royal Mail-themed parcel payments scam

Homes4Wiltshire, aka Homes4Spammers

13 Sep 15:15 | 2

You can 'go your own way' over GDPR, says UK's new Information Commissioner

Tells committee: I know I said Facebook was 'morally bankrupt' but...

13 Sep 09:15 | 101

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Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown

Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man

Ransomware crims saying 'We'll burn your data if you get a negotiator' can't be legally paid off anyway

Grief Corp are already under US sanctions, says Emsisoft

Linux kernel minimum compiler raised to GCC 5.1, allowing potential C11 use

Change also has handy side effect of fixing some warnings as errors

The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system

Who needs a 3,000-piece orrery? We do, of course

De-identify, re-identify: Anonymised data's dirty little secret

Jeffrey Singh, stamp-collecting bachelor (35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – is that you?

China to push RISC-V to global prominence – but maybe into a corner, too, says analyst

Which may not be a good thing for Arm, or anyone

Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore

Grace Hopper landed

If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this

Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond

It's time to delete that hunter2 password from your Microsoft account, says IT giant

And go passwordless, use auth app, keys, Windows Hello, or codes to login

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WhatsApp to offer end-to-end encrypted backups in iCloud, Google Drive with user-managed keys

Funny how 'privacy-focused' Apple and Google haven't managed that

11 Sep 01:21 | 33

Hey – how did you get in here? Number one app security weakness of 2021 was borked access control, says OWASP

Org releases its top ten list of bad things software vendors do

10 Sep 18:35 | 7

McDonald's email blunder broadcasts database creds to comedy competition winners

Finder tells El Reg of struggle to report snafu

09 Sep 12:58 | 51

LA cops told to harvest social media handles from people they stop, suspect or not

Policies revealed after long battle for transparency and accountability

09 Sep 03:50 | 106

Microsoft fixes flaw that could leak data between users of Azure container services

No data went awry, Cosmos DB had a similar bug just two weeks ago

09 Sep 02:56 | 3

New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more

Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it

08 Sep 19:36 | 5

Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash

'I am a firm supporter of privacy,' Sir Tim declares - even as the service is lambasted over IP logging

08 Sep 18:55 | 16

3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here

What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears

08 Sep 17:27 | 13

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists

08 Sep 13:44 | 132

AT&T Alien Labs warns of 'zero or low detection' for TeamTNT's latest malware bundle

Chimaera toolkit found on 'thousands' of Windows, Linux, and container systems worldwide

08 Sep 12:15 | 3

Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out

Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking

08 Sep 11:28 | 4

Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999

Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue?

08 Sep 09:13 | 28

Ransomware attacks are inevitable. Paying the ransom isn’t

Join security leaders to learn why network, perimeter, and application security aren’t enough

Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft

ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders

07 Sep 22:20 | 31

Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept

Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going?

07 Sep 21:13 | 24

British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats

Why are they asking G7 to do their job for them, muses critic

07 Sep 12:20 | 48

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