US lawmakers get a second shot at forcing FBI agents to obtain a warrant before they leaf through web histories
Bi-partisan amendment aims to take away easy access to your online life
26 May 2020 | 15
Security
If someone could stop hackers pwning medical systems right now, that would be cool, say Red Cross and friends
The rules of war that protect hospitals should extend into cyberspace
26 May 2020 | 29
Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked
No win, no fee. But if they win it's an up to £5.4bn fee
26 May 2020 | 17
Unmanned drones to slash NHS delivery times to one-fifth of road 'n' rail transport
Scottish trial will courier PPE and COVID-19 tests to remote hospital
26 May 2020 | 31
eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?
UpdatedFraud is a big issue for etailer, but there are privacy and consent concerns too
26 May 2020 | 103
Galaxy S20 security is already old hat as Samsung launches new safety silicon
Passport-grade chippery to help mobile devices prove their identity
26 May 2020 | 15
Contact-tracing app may become a permanent fixture in major Chinese city
Hangzhou wants a 'health and immunity firewall'
26 May 2020 | 14
Pre-authentication, remote root hole in call-center software? Thanks, Cisco. Just what a long weekend needs
RoundupThis and more bits and bytes from infosec world
25 May 2020 | 4
It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims
Unsurpisingly budget airline goes cheap: No payout or credit monitoring
22 May 2020 | 72
Forget BYOD, this is BYOVM: Ransomware tries to evade antivirus by hiding in a virtual machine on infected systems
Like Inception, but expensive and disappointing. So... just like Inception
22 May 2020 | 36
To test its security mid-pandemic, GitLab tried phishing its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it
Welp, at least that's better than industry averages, says code-hosting biz
21 May 2020 | 60
Campaign groups warn GCHQ can re-identify UK's phones from COVID-19 contact-tracing app data
UpdatedYes, the app that's not quite working yet
21 May 2020 | 66
Far-right leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police
British border search law strikes again
21 May 2020 | 158
DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline
Microsoft, BIND, Google, Cloudflare, Amazon, others fix up software or offer workarounds
21 May 2020 | 19
Zoom continues its catch-up security sprint with new training, bug bounty tweaks and promise of crypto playbook
Sigh. How many users did it have before it started this stuff?
21 May 2020 | 6
Remember when Securus was sued for recording 14,000 calls between prison inmates and lawyers? It just settled
It was a software bug, insists telco, as attorneys walk with most of the money
21 May 2020 | 7
UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm
AnalysisPlus: Serco plays email fail game by mass-mailing human contact tracers; NCSC gives feedback on feedback about beta app
20 May 2020 | 50
Ransomware has gone nuclear: To avoid any fallout yourself, tune in online this month to hear from KnowBe4
WebcastHow to defend your organization from attack
20 May 2020 |
Houseparty denied it had been hacked... while miscreants were abusing its dot-com domain name infrastructure
Subdomain takeover possible, infosec bod points out
20 May 2020 | 3
Tech's Volkswagen moment? Trend Micro accused of cheating Microsoft driver QA by detecting test suite
UpdatedAV maker denies allegation, says researcher is 'looking for attention'
20 May 2020 | 46
Former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman calls on UK govt to legally protect data from contact-tracing apps
'We don't want the system to rely on the individual integrity of any minister, ministerial team, or government'
20 May 2020 | 69
You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America's browsing history without a warrant?
50-plus advocacy groups call on US House of Reps to slap limits on surveillance law
20 May 2020 | 37
Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – including me, says teen girl
Lawsuits filed after alarm biz admits worker snooped on victims
19 May 2020 | 71
Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat
We tested it and found a naval officer's partner and kids - they're not kidding
19 May 2020 | 80
Easyjet hacked: 9 million people's data accessed plus 2,200 folks' credit card details grabbed
UpdatedAll together now: The hackers were 'highly sophisticated'
19 May 2020 | 125
Open letter from digital rights groups to UK health secretary questions big tech's role in NHS COVID-19 data store
Promises of transparency about handling of citizens' health data haven't been fulfilled – campaigners
19 May 2020 | 15
AT&T tracked its own sales bods using GPS, secretly charged them $135 a month to do so, lawsuit claims
See, it's not just users getting shafted
19 May 2020 | 22
Magecart malware merrily sipped card details, evaded security scans on UK e-tailer Páramo for almost 8 months
More than 3,500 folks' payment info quietly stolen
19 May 2020 | 16
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19 May 2020 |
Insider threat? Pffft. Hackers on the outside are the ones mostly making off with your private biz data, says Verizon
Malware-led intrusions falling out of fashion, too
19 May 2020 | 11
With millions upon millions out of work in the US, here come the scammers claiming victims' unemployment money using stolen info
State program funds targeted by crooks, Secret Service tells El Reg
19 May 2020 | 21
Attorney General: We didn't need Apple to crack terrorist's iPhones – tho we still want iGiant to do it in future
Feds gain access to military base shooter's mobes using outside tools
18 May 2020 | 47
Apple's MagicPairing for Bluetooth fails to enchant after mischief-making bugs found hiding in the stack
Known and yet still unfixed flaws lurk in proprietary device-linking tech
18 May 2020 | 12
Microsoft gives Office 365 admins the heads-up: Some internal queries over weekend might have returned results from completely different orgs
Only in 'extremely rare circumstances.' So that's OK
18 May 2020 | 18
I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)
RoundupPlus: Pop's Lady Gaga popped in hack, and more
18 May 2020 |
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo
Who, Me?Row, row, row your boat, gently down the... BOOM
18 May 2020 | 167
