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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 | 4

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 | 39

Google dishes out homemade SLSA, a recipe to thwart software supply-chain attacks

Try it with phish'n'chips

18 Jun 00:05 | 1

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 | 19

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 | 55

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 | 35

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 | 39

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

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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Ex-Pink Floyd uber-grouch calls social media mandroid 'one of the most powerful idiots in the world'

Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10

Wasn't it to be the 'last version of Windows'? Maybe not...

Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language

Community to think outside the pants

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!

Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down

Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more

Alibaba suffers billion-item data leak of usernames and mobile numbers

Shopping service Taobao scraped by affiliate marketer; developer and boss jailed

Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now

Panic over for users as others step up to take his place

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

Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different

A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

South Korea’s data watchdog barks warnings at Microsoft and five local firms

Fines, fines, everywhere there's fines

10 Jun 06:28 | 2

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

ALPACA gnaws through TLS protection to snarf cookies and steal data

Boffins find flaw in web security that enables certificate confusion

10 Jun 00:07 | 11

Huawei flings open the doors of its third privacy and security transparency centre

The first based in China

09 Jun 23:03 | 3

Risk and reward: Nefilim ransomware gang mainly targets fewer, richer companies and that strategy is paying off, warns Trend Micro

Criminal operators emerged from woodwork just as COVID hit the West

09 Jun 20:17 | 2

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