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Ever had a bogus call from someone claiming to be the IRS? A tax scam ringleader just got sent down for 20 years

Hitesh Patel also faces $9m payback for defrauding thousands of US citizens

01 Dec 21:28 | 12

How the human immune system inspired a new approach to email security

AI excels at interpreting high volume, high velocity, complex data – which is just the ticket here

As if Productivity Score wasn't creepy enough, Microsoft has patented tech for 'meeting quality monitoring devices'

Speech patterns consistent with boredom?! Minus 10 points!

01 Dec 14:30 | 14

Supreme Court mulls whether a cop looking up a license plate for cash is equivalent to watching Instagram at work

America's outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets a roasting

01 Dec 12:16 | 41

Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob

Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it

01 Dec 11:30 | 33

Yes, we’re all going to be at home for the foreseeable future. Does that leave you feeling insecure?

Or is it time to get SASE?

New study: DNS spoofing doubles in six years ... albeit from the point of naff all

Boffins see more interference with domain-name look-up system, wonder why DNSSEC is taking so long

01 Dec 07:06 | 10

Forget Snow Day: Baltimore's 115,000+ public school kids get Ransomware Day, must check Win PCs for infection

We don't need no education... IT department may need some

01 Dec 02:21 | 13

The CEO’s chuckling at their email… you better check your security defenses

Join us to learn how to save execs from themselves

Manchester United email servers remain offline amid what is being called a 'ransomware' attack

UK data watchdog has been told and 'forensic' probe is ongoing

27 Nov 16:15 | 32

UK infoseccer launches petition asking government not to backdoor encryption

Sign up and make your voice heard

27 Nov 14:01 | 40

£1.3bn National Cyber Security Strategy? Meh – we're looking at 2021, Cabinet Office shrugs

'Progress' report shows nobody's really paying attention any more

27 Nov 10:04 | 16

Privacy campaigner flags concerns about Microsoft's creepy Productivity Score

Watching, always watching

26 Nov 10:53 | 78

Ticketmaster: We're not liable for credit card badness because the hack straddled GDPR day

Lawyers for fined firm make eyebrow-raising claim to irate ex-customer

25 Nov 11:59 | 89

Google binned two apps by China’s Baidu, which says researchers got it wrong by linking it to personal info leaks

Palo Alto Networks spotted subscriber IDs and MAC addresses on the move

25 Nov 01:58 | 15

VMware urges sysadmins to apply workarounds after critical Workspace command execution vuln found

If you've been pwned in the past, pay special attention to this one

Imagine things are bad enough that you need a payday loan. Then imagine flaws in systems of loan lead generators leave your records in the open... for years

Leaky data systems fixed now, but the issue affected millions

24 Nov 10:28 | 35

Marketers for an Open Web ask UK competition watchdog to block launch of Google's anti-tracking Privacy Sandbox

Group claims adtech 'has nothing to do with privacy' but is rather an attempt 'to take control of the web'

24 Nov 07:28 | 29

Crooks social-engineer GoDaddy staff into handing over control of crypto-biz domain names

Web traffic, email redirected, personal info exposed in DNS hijacking

23 Nov 22:52 | 42

Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits

Exec, two officers, one other charged

23 Nov 21:17 | 103

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Supreme Court mulls whether a cop looking up a license plate for cash is equivalent to watching Instagram at work

America's outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets a roasting

Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself

Star of science and celluloid is no more

AWS going AWOL last week is exactly why less is more in cloud server land

A digital dial tone might have helped to keep the lights on for many

Uri Geller calls off 20-year ban on Pokémon trading card that 'stole' his 'signature image'

So bye-bye, Mr Ajit Pai. You drove our policy into the levee and we still wonder why

FCC boss tells telco industry he's available for lobbying work in January

Bare-metal Macs-as-a-service come to AWS. Intel for now, M1 silicon in 2021

Mac Minis in the cloud, still with the SmartNIC-powered Nitro isolation subsystem

Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob

Blank share certificates, passport scans, you name it

On the 11th day of Christmas TalkTalk took from me... the email address of my company

Legacy Business accounts to be axed from 4 January 2021

Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud

Big Red said it was picked for its 'superior' cloud, but marketing minutiae and conference-eve thunder stealing have intruded

Internet Explorer fails to make the cut, banished from Microsoft Teams for good

Someone needs to make a 'Best viewed with anything but IE' badge for websites

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Penetration testing isn’t enough, you need to activate full offensive operations

SANS Institute expands course lineup to help you think like a hacker

US Air Force deploys robot security dogs to guard base

23 Nov 12:30 | 61

No Xmas office party? Missing infosec pals and colleagues? Want to listen to DJs who also happen to be cyber warriors?

Cyber House Party charity event scheduled for 17 December – just bring your dosh and (maybe) some ear plugs

23 Nov 10:15 | 2

Head thumping, heart racing? Here’s how not to panic when you’re under cyber attack

No incident response plan? We can help you there…

Manchester United working with infosec experts to 'minimize ongoing IT disruption' caused by 'cyber attack'

No data leaked, says football club

21 Nov 15:41 | 28

IBM Power9 processors beset by Cardiac Osprey data-leaking flaw as Spectre still haunts speculative chips

Patch if you can: Fix available

20 Nov 21:21 | 12

End-to-end encryption? In Android's default messaging app? Don't worry, nobody else noticed either

RCS throws the dice

20 Nov 18:56 | 41

NCSC's London HQ was chosen because GCHQ spies panicked at the prospect of grubby Shoreditch offices

Tech hipsters? On our doorstep? The Silicon what?

20 Nov 11:29 | 64

UK reveals new 'National Cyber Force', announces Space Command and mysterious AI agency

Combined Ministry of Defence and GCHQ team has worked since April to 'transform cyber capabilities'

20 Nov 07:39 | 65

You can protect the company from hackers, but can you protect the company from the CEO?

Spear-phishers love the executive suite. Here’s how to stop them getting in

India PM calls on nation's youth to 'vaccinate digital products against cyber-attacks and viruses'

And hints at new local data governance push

20 Nov 05:15 | 4

VMware reveals critical hypervisor bugs found at Chinese white hat hacking comp. One lets guests run code on hosts

ESXi, Cloud Foundation, and desktop hypervisor users should get patching

20 Nov 04:26 | 11

In 2016 Australia's online census failed. Preparations for the 2021 edition have been rated 'partly effective'

Devs can make unauthorised changes, data integrity is a work in progress, security is not there yet ... and there's just nine months to go

20 Nov 02:58 | 9

US Senate approves deepfake bill to defend against manipulated media

Proposed legislation calls for research to detect synthetic shams online

19 Nov 20:35 | 9

AWS includes open-source Suricata for stateful inspection with Network Firewall service

Enhanced network security for AWS virtual private cloud – while Microsoft previews Azure Firewall Premium

Cyberup campaign: 80% of infosec pros fear they might fall foul of UK's outdated Computer Misuse Act

Creaky old law holds back global competitiveness, says group

19 Nov 14:49 | 32

Compsci guru wants 'right to be forgotten' for old email, urges Google and friends to expire, reveal crypto-keys

DKIM 'makes us all more vulnerable to extortion, blackmail,' argues Green

19 Nov 07:24 | 88

China-linked hacking gang ‘APT10’ named as probable actor behind extended attacks on Japanese companies

Campaign even targeted branch offices inside China and sought secrets of automotive and engineering companies

19 Nov 03:58 | 7

Heads up: A new strain of card-skimming Grelos malware is on the loose

Magecart variant has changed and you should be alert, warns RiskIQ

18 Nov 18:47 | 2

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