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If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you

Storage box maker puts customers on red alert after outbreak in ransomware infections

22 Apr 21:57 | 32

US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated

Software fixes available, says FAA

22 Apr 19:30 | 22

MI5 wants to shed its cocktail-guzzling posho image – so it's opened an Instagram account

Lockdown's getting to everyone – even the social media monkeys

22 Apr 13:45 | 25

Apple, you've AirDrop'd the ball: Academics detail ways to leak contact info of nearby iThings for spear-phishing

Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait

22 Apr 08:16 | 19

Asian buyers set for security spending spree to catch up on shabby strategies

China already growing even faster than 13% regional acceleration

22 Apr 04:18 | 1

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

21 Apr 22:04 | 33

Apple supplier Quanta Computer confirms it's fallen victim to ransomware attack

REvil gang starts publishing designs of what appear to be unreleased products

21 Apr 17:58 | 10

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

21 Apr 15:05 | 90

Half of Q1's malware traffic observed by Sophos was TLS encrypted, hiding inside legit requests to legit services

Brit infosec outfit points to nefarious deeds within Discord, Google systems

21 Apr 13:32 | 15

REvil ransomware gang claims it stole top-secret tech designs – including Apple lappies – from Quanta Computer

Threatens to release designs and data if not paid. But dangles 2005-vintage ThinkPad as proof it's serious

21 Apr 07:57 | 7

Your cloud security is static – and you’re open to more risk than you realize

Make your move before the cyber-crims make theirs, says Sysdig

Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency

200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost

21 Apr 03:30 | 4

China broke into govt, defense, finance networks via zero-day in Pulse Secure VPN gateways? No way

Crucial flaw won't be fixed until next month

20 Apr 22:20 | 10

Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo

Blundering mouthpiece sent arrogant line to journalist by accident

20 Apr 19:51 | 33

Do you expect me to talk? Yes, Mr Bond, I expect you to reply: 10k Brits targeted on LinkedIn by Chinese, Russian spies

Campaign launched to alert public sector staff that not everyone on the internet is nice

20 Apr 15:48 | 13

We need to talk about criminal adversaries who want you to eat undercooked onion rings

Cisco Talos discovers flaws in air fryer, connected chip cooker firm fails to fix

20 Apr 11:37 | 55

Bank of England ponders minting 'Britcoin' to sit alongside the Pound

Taskforce and two forums to consider Central Bank Digital Currency

20 Apr 06:56 | 89

Who knew Uncle Sam had strike teams for SolarWinds, Exchange flaws? Well, anyway, they are disbanded

Lessons learned and mission accomplished, apparently

19 Apr 22:28 | 12

WordPress core contributor proposes treating Google FLoC as a security vulnerability

Let's opt every WordPress site out of FLoC. Nice idea, but security update? Really?

19 Apr 20:27 | 29

Won't somebody please think of the children!!! UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook

Change the record, nobody's fooled by this now

19 Apr 18:45 | 118

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University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment. Of course, it absolutely backfired

'Our community does not appreciate being experimented on' says Kroah-Hartman

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed

But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better

UK.gov wants mobile makers to declare death dates for their new devices from launch

IoT security plan suddenly thrusts into the mainstream

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise

One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia

Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare

Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings

If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you

Storage box maker puts customers on red alert after outbreak in ransomware infections

Microsoft loves Linux – as in, it loves Linux users running Linux desktop apps on Windows PCs

Come inside, penguinistas, install that WSL GUI preview, yes, open source is totally winning here

Apple, you've AirDrop'd the ball: Academics detail ways to leak contact info of nearby iThings for spear-phishing

Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait

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Codecov dev tool warns of stolen credentials from compromised script, undiscovered for two months

Environment variables full of secrets uploaded to attacker server

19 Apr 16:03 | 8

Sysadmin for FIN7 criminal cracking group gets 10 years in US prison for managing card slurping malware scam

Plus Pwn2Own faces fire and update Chrome immediately

19 Apr 14:15 | 3

Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge

Would move for The Greater Good™ actually be good, though?

19 Apr 09:39 | 51

Pakistan cut off Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Telegram – for just four hours

To stop protests by far-right party that wants France’s ambassador expelled

19 Apr 05:58 | 11

Russian infosec firm Positive Technologies trying to stay positive after US sanctions

Company insists it's a legit operator that's here to help

16 Apr 17:25 | 1

Microsoft received almost 25,000 requests for consumer data from law enforcement over the past six months

25% were rejected, and it's less than 2013's figure... but be wary of what Redmond does with your information

16 Apr 14:41 | 16

Watchdog thinks Google tricked Australians into giving up data, sues. Judge semi-agrees

Filing reveals: Google staff called meeting over data privacy issues the 'Oh Shit' meeting

16 Apr 11:30 | 39

Mobile app security standard for IoT, VPNs proposed by group backed by Big Tech

ioXt Alliance aims to bring 'transparency and visibility'

15 Apr 21:42 | 10

It was Russia wot did it: SolarWinds hack was done by Kremlin's APT29 crew, say UK and US

And Positive Technologies has been slapped with American sanctions

15 Apr 15:49 | 62

University of Hertfordshire pulls the plug on, well, everything after cyber attack

Another UK institution topples at the hands of miscreants

15 Apr 15:04 | 50

Is it still possible to run malware in a browser using JavaScript and Rowhammer? Yes, yes it is (slowly)

Firefox 'fully compromised' in 15 minutes via SMASH attack

15 Apr 00:18 | 10

Nigerian email scammer sent down for 40 months in the US, ordered to pay back $2.7m to victims

Among the victims: the United Nations

14 Apr 22:32 | 18

Report: Aussie biz Azimuth cracked San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending Apple-FBI privacy standoff

Mozilla-authored code in iOS exploited, since patched, it is claimed

14 Apr 21:37 | 26

What the FLoC? Browser makers queue up to decry Google's latest ad-targeting initiative as invasive tracking

'Federated Learning of Cohorts' groups users together and is already being tested in Chrome

14 Apr 19:33 | 33

Chrome and Chromium updated after yet another exploit is found in browser's V8 JavaScript engine

JS component seems to be focus of researchers and miscreants alike

14 Apr 17:02 | 7

Spy agency GCHQ told me Gmail's more secure than Microsoft 365, insists British MP as facepalming security bods tell him to zip it

Keep using the provided tools, NCSC says

14 Apr 09:16 | 113

FBI deletes web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers before alerting admins

Remote-control malware wiped, deployments must still be patched

14 Apr 02:26 | 74

Google Sites blight: Over 100,000 web pages for business form searches overrun with backdoor RATs

eSentire warns of remote-access trojans masquerading as PDFs

14 Apr 01:22 | 8

1Password targets developers with Secrets Automation, acquisition of SecretHub

Existing users covered until 2022

13 Apr 20:53 | 2

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