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If you want to practice writing exploits and worms, there's a big hijacking hole in SonicWall firewall VPNs

And some 800,000 installations facing the internet, patches are available

To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever

History tells us tech companies just get bigger, even after being broken up or battered

16 Oct 15:00 | 23

British Airways fined ￡20m for Magecart hack that exposed 400k folks' credit card details to crooks

Airline was saving domain admin creds and card details alike in plaintext

16 Oct 12:15 | 32

One alleged Dridex money-launderer set for US extradition, beams UK's National Crime Agency

They nicked six alleged perps last year but only one was charged

15 Oct 19:28 | 3

COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks

Infosec biz issues mildly off-the-wall guidance for incident responders

15 Oct 17:30 | 24

Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body

Plus: Platform 'censors' US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami

15 Oct 14:15 | 6

Microsoft would love to hear about 'critical bugs' in .NET 5.0 ahead of the 'unified' platform's November launch

Dare ye use RC2 in production?

Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready

But it’s a tech preview and requires opt-in for every meeting

15 Oct 07:33 | 13

Intel celebrates security of Ice Lake Xeon processors, so far impervious to any threat due to their unavailability

But when they ship, Chipzilla promises its server silicon will 'double down' on defense mechanisms

14 Oct 19:26 | 22

The rise of fearware and how to fight back

A new kind of email filtering protects against fraud

McAfee rattles tin for $600m+ in fresh IPO filing valuing firm at $3.6bn

That's if shares sell at the high end

14 Oct 15:52 | 7

Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison

Swindon man walks away with two-year suspended sentence

14 Oct 13:57 | 13

'Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park,' says social network – but don't hold that against it

Zuckerberg and UK government throw code-breaking site funding lifeline

14 Oct 10:29 | 33

Softly-as-a-service: IBM whispers plan for security SaaS based on a Cloud Pak

Appears to cook a new way to shift containerised wares and get you onto OpenShift

It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine

Redmond urges folks to apply update ASAP – plus more fixes for Outlook and software from Adobe, Intel, SAP, Red Hat

13 Oct 20:09 | 75

For Foxit's sake: Windows and Mac users alike urged to patch PhantomPDF over use-after-free vulns

CISA points spotlight at PDF reader 'n' creator suite

13 Oct 17:30 | 14

You can ditch the printer and go entirely paperless, but does that really make your work comms any more secure?

Tune in and learn how to reinvigorate your digital transformation

Hackers hack Hackney: Local government cries 'cyberattack' while UK infosec officials rush to figure out what happened

Check bank accounts, don't open council emails, you know how this goes

13 Oct 12:32 | 11

The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open

'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised'

12 Oct 23:26 | 7

Microsoft and chums use US trademark law to trash Trickbot malware network

Multinational operation is part of election protection effort

12 Oct 18:30 | 8

Popular

LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die

And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta

We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to

Master builder or vastly inferior?

Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge

Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again

Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so

After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino

'You've got the old cheeky Corona': Ireland's pandemic advice SMS service can be spoofed, warns researcher

Get cell broadcast tech in, urges onetime Lulzsec white hat

12 Oct 16:21 | 3

Beware, drone fliers, of Scotland's black-headed gulls. For they will tear your craft from Mother Nature's skies

Innocent survey UAS brutally smashed into roof by Stranraer seabird

12 Oct 11:00 | 37

One year after server hackers left NordVPN red-faced, firm's first colocated setup is online

Plus: Bunch of Cisco fixes for Patch Tuesday week, Fitbit kit hit, RAT malware written in Golang, and more

12 Oct 10:18 | 6

Britannia should rule the (cyber) waves, minister tells Singapore event in bid to drum up Commonwealth support

Rhetoric for the post-Brexit era but will actions follow words?

12 Oct 08:30 | 46

Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything

Or as they put it: ‘Embed the safety of the public in system designs … facilitating the investigation and prosecution of offences’

11 Oct 23:51 | 141

Global Privacy Control emerges as latest attempt to let netizens choose whether they want to be tracked online

It's Do Not Track II: The Wrath of Ashkan and Sebastian... Caaaaaaaan't you stop stalking us around the internet

10 Oct 07:16 | 44

Five bag $300,000 in bug bounties after finding 55 security holes in Apple's web apps, IT infrastructure

Unpatched Cisco VPN servers, access to the iOS source code, AWS secret keys – this is weapons grade 'oof'

09 Oct 23:19 | 14

Software AG hit with ransomware: Crooks leak staffers' passports, want millions for stolen files

There's only one way to stop this, says counter-ransomware bod

09 Oct 17:40 | 24

Crown Prosecution Service solicitor accused of targeting judge ex-wife's lover through work computer systems

Computer Misuse Act charges stack up against vengeful former hubby

09 Oct 15:44 | 23

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Don't worry, says the internet giant, this doesn't happen too often

09 Oct 12:04 | 70

Email-spamming COVID profiteers deleted database with 'key evidence' when UK watchdog came knocking

Fined ￡40k after probe. Plus: ICO wants your views on its future powers

09 Oct 08:30 | 15

Want to set up a successful bug bounty? Make sure you write it for the flaw finders and not the lawyers

Plus: Experts talk voting machine security, 'warming' of relations with infosec community

08 Oct 22:40 | 5

Hey, pull your nose out of BlackBerry's poor financials and pay attention to this all-singing security doodah

Zero trust, zero touch, crypto-jacking – bung all the usual buzzwords in

08 Oct 18:57 | 6

K8s on a plane! US Air Force slaps Googly container tech on yet another war machine to 'run advanced ML algorithms'

And if that's not Skynet enough for ya, Britten-Norman is working to make the BN-2 Islander fly autonomously

08 Oct 14:05 | 17

Apple's T2 custom secure boot chip is not only insecure, it cannot be fixed without replacing the silicon

Which means your new Mac is vulnerable to 'evil maid' attacks, if that's something you worry about

08 Oct 11:04 | 67

Wisepay 'outage' is actually the school meal payments biz trying to stop an intruder from stealing customer card details

We pulled entire website to halt attack, says spokesman

07 Oct 15:01 | 17

Infosec researchers pwned Comcast's voice-activated remote control so it could snoop on household chit-chat

Own one of those Xfinity XR11 TV zappers? You better get patching

07 Oct 13:02 | 15

Disgraced cop, 55, spared prison term after admitting he abused police systems to snoop on his girlfriend's ex

120 hours' community service and suspended sentence for computer misuse and data protection crimes

07 Oct 11:15 | 37

UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court

Five-year legal battle pays off. Now countries have to figure out what to do

07 Oct 06:54 | 98

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