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Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it

We got hacked and we'll be right back, duo said ... two months ago

23 Jun 23:47 | 1

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon found lifeless in prison after court OKs extradition

UK-born wild man of infosec faced trial in America for tax evasion

23 Jun 19:52 | 24

Boffins promise protection and perfect performance with new ZeRØ, No-FAT memory safety techniques

Fast, easy to implement, and knocks attacks like Spectre on the head – what's the catch?

23 Jun 13:27 | 10

Sure looks like someone's pirating the REvil ransomware, tweaking the binary in a hex editor for their own crimes

It's a crook-eat-crook world out there

23 Jun 00:02 | 7

SEC still digging into SolarWinds fallout, nudges undeclared victims

US markets watchdog sniffs around potential insider trading, data violations relating to hack

22 Jun 22:45 | 6

'Set it and forget it' attitude to open-source software has become a major security problem, says Veracode

Study finds a whole sea of outdated third-party libraries

22 Jun 21:30 | 38

There's no 'Skype' in Teams: Microsoft lets signing key for its Debian Skype repository slip gently into the night

Summer Solstice: A time for dancing, druids, and certificate errors

22 Jun 20:05 | 13

Zephyr OS Bluetooth vulnerabilities left smart devices open to attack

The 'S' in 'IoT' stands for 'security'

22 Jun 12:30 | 5

MI5 still risks breaking the law on surveillance data through poor controls – years after it was first warned

Yet spy agency overseer IPCO seems to be working as the public hoped

22 Jun 10:46 | 16

US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile

No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission

22 Jun 08:31 | 45

To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA? Gartner analyst says OK — but don’t be robotic about it

Picking street signs from a matrix of images is out, cleverer challenges are OK

22 Jun 08:06 | 56

Do you want speed or security as expected? Spectre CPU defenses can cripple performance on Linux in tests

All depends on whether your workload is making a lot of system calls or not

22 Jun 03:02 | 26

APNIC left a dump from its Whois SQL database in a public Google Cloud bucket

File was supposed to be private. It was not. And it was out in the open for months

22 Jun 01:08 | 5

It's 2021 and a printf format string in a wireless network's name can break iPhone Wi-Fi

Hope no one's created guest networks called '%Free %Coffee at %Starbucks'

21 Jun 21:59 | 42

Ex-NSA bigwig Chris Inglis appointed America's national cyber director by Senate

Plus: Impact of ransomware payments, CVS database not secured

21 Jun 20:08 | 5

Sharpen your cybersecurity skills, however and wherever works for you, with these SANS Institute courses

Network invaders haven't stopped learning ... have you?

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 | 16

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

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

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 | 54

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Now that China has all but banned cryptocurrencies, GPU prices are falling like Bitcoin

Let's just check BTC-USD, oh yeah, waaay down

US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile

No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission

USA's efforts to stop relying on Russian-built rocket engines derailed by issues with Blue Origin's BE-4

Government Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays

Register Debate

Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

Never bet against a technology that has matured over decades

Have you tried turning server cores off and on again? HPE wants to do it for you from GreenLake

For those times when you run software on a box bigger than your license

Monitoring is simple enough – green means everything's fine. But getting to that point can be a whole other ball game

Don’t take no for an answer, but be prepared to give it.

There's no 'Skype' in Teams: Microsoft lets signing key for its Debian Skype repository slip gently into the night

Summer Solstice: A time for dancing, druids, and certificate errors

Do you want speed or security as expected? Spectre CPU defenses can cripple performance on Linux in tests

All depends on whether your workload is making a lot of system calls or not

'Set it and forget it' attitude to open-source software has become a major security problem, says Veracode

Study finds a whole sea of outdated third-party libraries

Intel sponsors report on tech's role in decarbonisation and the irony isn't lost on us

Making computer components is a dirty business

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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

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 | 21

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

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

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 | 21

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 | 21

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 | 40

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