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Cybersecurity Month

Fortify your frontlines: It's Cybersecurity Month at The Register, your one-stop hub to bulletproof your digital landscape. From next-gen firewalls to human-factor risks, we're diving deep to make sure you stay ahead of the gang.

International Criminal Court blames spies for 'targeted and sophisticated attack'

Tell us it's Russia without telling us it's Russia

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Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token

Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2023 | 38

‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence

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San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests

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Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app

Incidentally, Windows 11 has native rar support now

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 22

Critical Citrix bug exploited by data thieves weeks before being patched

Updated Time to close those active sessions

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Governments resent their dependence on Big Tech

Singapore summit hears how private sector's constant security sins create risk for sovereigns

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Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels

Spies come in from the cold for their first public chinwag

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 30

Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough

Researchers say ransomware could be on the horizon if success continues

Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2023 | 2

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

Annual fee won't be profitable, will require registration of phone number

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Cisco's critical zero-day bug gets even worse – 'thousands' of IOS XE devices pwned

Good news: There's a free scanner to check your kit. Bad news: Still no fix

Cybersecurity Month17 Oct 2023 | 15

Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited

We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP

Cybersecurity Month16 Oct 2023 | 12

Signal shoots down zero-day rumors, finds 'no evidence' of device takeover

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Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

Elon Musk's social network provided no response – or junk – to official inquiries about its safety practices

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EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states

What could possibly go wrong?

Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 38

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Fortify your frontlines: It's Cybersecurity Month at The Register, your one-stop hub to bulletproof your digital landscape. From next-gen firewalls to human-factor risks, we're diving deep to make sure you stay ahead of the gang.

Bug bounty hunters load up to stalk AI and fancy bagging big bucks

Telcos should compensate phished subscribers, suggests Singapore

Seiko watches 60K personal data records tick away in BlackCat ransomware heist

Spanish phisherfolk caught in cops' net in multi-million-euro catch

After six days and thousands of pwned users, Cisco poised to patch IOS XE flaw

International Criminal Court blames spies for 'targeted and sophisticated attack'

Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes

Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app

Critical Citrix bug exploited by data thieves weeks before being patched

Governments resent their dependence on Big Tech

Five Eyes intel chiefs warn China's IP theft program now at 'unprecedented' levels

Malware crooks find an in with fake browser updates, in case real ones weren't bad enough

X marks the bot: Musk thinks spammers won't pay $1 a year

Cisco's critical zero-day bug gets even worse – 'thousands' of IOS XE devices pwned

Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited

Signal shoots down zero-day rumors, finds 'no evidence' of device takeover

Australia threatens X with fine, warns Google, for failure to comply with child abuse handling report regs

EPA flushes water supply cybersecurity rule after losing legal fight with industry, states

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'

Your ex isn't the only one stalking your social media posts. The Feds are, too

ServiceNow quietly addresses unauthenticated data exposure flaw from 2015

Hunters International leaks pre-op plastic surgery pics in negotiation no-no

CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon

Microsoft seeks EU Digital Market Acts exemption for underdog apps like Edge

Window Maker Live: When less is more, but more is also ... more?

Canada goosed as attackers shutter hospitals and China deepfakes its politicians

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?

Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms

Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data

Microsoft takes another run at closing Exchange brute-force security hole

CISOs' salary growth slows – with pay gap widening

From chaos to cadence: Celebrating two decades of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

Ransomwared health insurer wasn't using antivirus software

Vietnam accused of Predator spyware attack on EU and US politicians

FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year

Online tracking is alive and well in link decoration

China uses Alibaba's Euro logistic hub to spy on stuff, Belgian intelligence fears

Improving defense of US space assets isn't rocket science. Oh wait

Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei

FEMA to test emergency alert system US-wide today

North Korea's Lazarus Group upgrades its main malware

Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator

Arm patches GPU driver bug exploited by spyware to snoop on targets

Microsoft Defender 'finally' stops flagging Tor Browser as malware

Japan drives for infosec self-sufficiency – at least in one layer of deep defenses

US State Dept has no idea if its IT security actually works, say auditors

Feds hopelessly behind the times on ransomware trends in alert to industry

Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers

Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist

Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware

ESA gets the job of building Europe's secure satcomms network

US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation

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