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
Security
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 | 68
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
Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War
Five Eyes-style Euro intel alliance Maximator tipped UK off about Crypto AG machines
18 May 2020 | 94
Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts
Don't worry, you can still microwave your dinner – even if this smells of ransomware
15 May 2020 | 59
You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit
Metropolitan Police's China-style surveillance runs up against reality
15 May 2020 | 140
Vint Cerf suggests GDPR could hurt coronavirus vaccine development
Essay on role of internet during plague times also suggests online schooling may not be the finished article
15 May 2020 | 64
Brit defense contractor hacked, up to 100,000 past and present employees' details siphoned off – report
Outsourcer Interserve holds a number of UK defense contracts, among others
15 May 2020 | 5
Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps
Mandrake handlers could snoop on whatever victim did with their phone
14 May 2020 | 33
'iOS security is f**ked' says exploit broker Zerodium: Prices crash for taking a bite out of Apple's core tech
Million-dollar payouts zero out as hackers follow the money en masse
14 May 2020 | 37
There's Norway you're going to believe this: Government investment fund conned out of $10m in cyber-attack
UpdatedPolice pining to drop the Lillehammer on crooks
14 May 2020 | 10
US-CERT lists the 10 most-exploited security bugs and, yeah, it's mostly Microsoft holes people forgot to patch
Update, update, update. Plus: Flash, Struts, Drupal also make appearances
14 May 2020 | 6
'Malware' takes Aussie money-manager MyBudget down for five days
UpdatedBills going unpaid by service that exists to pay bills
14 May 2020 |
Now there's nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant
Thanks for nothing, Bernie Sanders
13 May 2020 | 51
Senator demands deep probe into spyware-for-cops after NSO Group touts hacking toolkit to American plod
Updated'Aggressive oversight' needed, Congress urged
13 May 2020 | 7
Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID
Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free – but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID
13 May 2020 | 58
Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER's login nodes exploited in cyber-attack, admins reset passwords and SSH keys
UpdatedAssault on TOP500-listed machine may have hit Euro HPC too, warn sysops
13 May 2020 | 37
