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South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group
Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff”
21 Jun 05:33 | 9
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Racist malware blocks The Pirate Bay by tampering with victims' Windows hosts file
Hello, 2002 called with one of the oldest low-tech tricks in the book
18 Jun 15:47 | 37
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CREST president Ian Glover to retire after 13 years – but where's the transparency, bossman?
UK infosec accreditation body still won't publish exam cheatsheet scandal report nor be interviewed by El Reg
18 Jun 13:34 | 5
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Poltergeist attack could leave autonomous vehicles blind to obstacles – or haunt them with new ones
First 'AMpLe' concept proves worryingly simple to implement with success
18 Jun 10:01 | 50
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Google dishes out homemade SLSA, a recipe to thwart software supply-chain attacks
Try it with phish'n'chips
18 Jun 00:05 | 1
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Ex-Brave staffer launches GDPR sueball in Germany over tech giants' real-time bidding for ad inventory
Privacy browser's former chief policy officer calls web advertising ecosystem 'the Biggest. Data. Breach. Ever'
17 Jun 20:16 | 20
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Tim Cook: Sideloading is a disaster and proposed App Store reforms would harm user privacy and security
Apple CEO stays on message during interview while Epic case rumbles along
17 Jun 14:47 | 56
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Biden to Putin: Get your ransomware gangs under control and don’t you dare cyber-attack our infrastructure
Putin to Biden: чушь! You already attack us way more than we attack you!
17 Jun 06:00 | 38
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South Korea has a huge problem with digital sex crimes against women says Human Rights Watch
Big tech and local authorities are both far from helpful when victims try to delete unauthorised images or prosecute creeps
17 Jun 04:04 | 9
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GPRS-era mobile data encryption algorithm GEA/1 was 'weak by design', still lingers in today's phones
Just in case you travel back in time to 1998
17 Jun 01:44 | 20
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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 20:20 | 9
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Ryuk ransomware recovery cost us $8.1m and counting, says Baltimore school authority
Spreadsheet breaks down spend on staving off future badness
16 Jun 16:37 | 6
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We've found another reason not to use Microsoft's Paint 3D – researchers
Scream if you wanna go raster: Vulnerability uncovered in unloved software
16 Jun 15:07 | 19
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Cuffed: Ukraine police collar six Clop ransomware gang suspects in joint raids with South Korean cops
Cobalt Strike and Flawedammyy RAT named as favoured tools
16 Jun 13:37 | 11
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Papa don't breach: UK data watchdog fines that other pizza place £10,000 over unsolicited marketing blitz
Papa John's falls foul of 'soft opt-in' exemption in PECR rules
16 Jun 12:03 | 18
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Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers
Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed
16 Jun 03:14 | 1
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Zoll Defibrillator Dashboard would execute contents of random Excel files ordinary users could import
Medical device cybersecurity raises its head in CISA warning
15 Jun 18:16 | 15
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NCSC chief: Ransomware is more of a threat to Britain than hostile nations' spies
Lindy Cameron gives private industry an unusual nod in speech full of interventionism
15 Jun 14:53 | 7
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TimeCache aims to block side-channel cache attacks – without hurting performance
Research team: We've proved hardware-plus-software mods can keep your secrets secret
15 Jun 13:45 | 8
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Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode after efforts to switch to backup memory modules fail
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Column
Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)
From point release to pointless release
Bootnotes
How hot is it right now? 'Water park catching fire and burning down' hot
It's a Jersey thing, you wouldn't understand
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Toshiba engulfed by scandal again — and the prime minister is implicated
Company conspired with government to make life hard for activist foreign investors
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Updating in production, like a boss
The pain in Spain comes mainly from a lack of training
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South Korea’s nuclear research agency breached by North Korea-affiliated cyberattackers, says malware analyst group
Think tank says inconsistencies in story were not a cover-up — just a mistake from “working-level staff”
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Emergency mode? Bah! It takes a Microsoft product to really break a digital sign
Memory is not the only thing leaking from Windows
Legal
India tells Twitter to obey its laws — or make wielding them easier
Minister lashes avian network and suggests its legal protections may have been removed
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Tolerating failure: From happy accidents to serious screwups … Time to look at getting it wrong, er, correctly
Let’s talk procedures. Plus: Are you dealing with errors in a way that leaves room for people to own up to them?
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VMs were a fad fit for the Great Recession. Containers’ time has finally come
No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign!
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Brit IT firms wound up by court order after fooling folk into paying for 'support' over fake computer errors
Companies were puppets to Indian biz Underpin Services Private Limited
15 Jun 12:30 | 40
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The latest REvil ransomware victim? Sol Oriens. Oh, a US nuclear weapons contractor
Company claims 'no current indication' top-secret data was plundered
15 Jun 11:28 | 11
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When security gets physical: Mossad boss hints at less-than-subtle Stuxnet followup
Plus: Alleged Trickbot developer cuffed by US agents
15 Jun 07:24 | 11
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NATO summit communiqué compares repeat cyberattacks to armed attacks – and stops short of saying 'one-in, all-in' rule will always apply
China lashed for ignoring norms, retorts that Western clique isn't playing fair
15 Jun 06:00 | 21
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G7 nations call out Russia for harbouring ransomware crims ahead of Biden-Putin powwow
Hopes raised in West of an extradition or law enforcement agreement to stem the tide
14 Jun 21:29 | 15
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Ex-NSA leaker Reality Winner released from prison early for 'exemplary' behavior
Will be transferred to a halfway house, attorney continues to fight for presidential pardon
14 Jun 20:36 | 15
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Norton dodges UK courts after telling Brit watchdog it will be nicer to consumers
Admits nothing but promises amendments to auto-renewal, refund policies
14 Jun 14:56 | 33
Column
We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?
If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab
14 Jun 09:16 | 84
Comment
The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
Crims now know what not to trust, and how to stymie future infiltrations
14 Jun 05:03 | 124
Comment
UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning
Even nuclear missile attacks came with a 4-minute heads-up
11 Jun 16:44 | 44
Security
EA Games looted by intruders: Publisher says 'no player data accessed' after reported theft of FIFA 21, Frostbite source
'Surprise stealing mechanics' made short work of network perimeter security
11 Jun 12:25 | 18
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Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched
Error handling? Nah, let's just unlock everything and be done with it
11 Jun 06:28 | 59
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China arrests over 1000 for using cryptocurrency to help launder proceeds of phone scams
As local search engines stop providing results on crypto-keywords
11 Jun 05:58 | 3
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Student Loans Company splashes out on 20,000 cybersecurity training courses – for just 3,300 employees
FoI request details £76,800 in training fees, most of which went to staff security-specific departments
10 Jun 10:45 | 16
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South Korea’s data watchdog barks warnings at Microsoft and five local firms
Fines, fines, everywhere there's fines
10 Jun 06:28 | 2
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Ransomware-skewered meat producer JBS confesses to paying $11m for its freedom
Company also says large and well-funded IT department sorted recovery swiftly
10 Jun 05:57 | 20
