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open Well Holby damned! We've caught a virus: Brit medical soap operas team up for 'cyber' episode 32
By macjules
Saturday 16th February 2019 17:14 GMT
open 'This collaboration is absolutely critical going forward'... One positive thing about Meltdown CPU hole? At least it put aside tech rivalries... 28
By _LC_
Sunday 17th February 2019 14:35 GMT
open Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs 146
By Glen Turner 666
Sunday 17th February 2019 13:09 GMT
open Bad news for WannaCry slayer Marcus Hutchins: Judge rules being young, hungover, and in a strange land doesn't obviate evidence 96
By Jake Maverick
Sunday 17th February 2019 16:30 GMT
open US man and Brit teen convict indicted over school bomb threat spree 22
By Anonymous Coward
Friday 15th February 2019 19:02 GMT
open Cover your NASes: QNAP acknowledges mystery malware but there's no patch yet 23
By Numen
Friday 15th February 2019 15:17 GMT
open Oh Snapd! Gimme-root-now security bug lets miscreants sock it to your Ubuntu boxes 53
By Snake
Saturday 16th February 2019 04:08 GMT
open US counterintelligence agent helped Iran lob cyber-bombs at America, say Uncle Sam's lawyers 12
By JaitcH
Friday 15th February 2019 08:54 GMT
open ACLU: Here's how FBI tried to force Facebook to wiretap its chat app. Judge: Oh no you don't 28
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 16th February 2019 14:19 GMT
open Hackers KO Malta's Bank of Valletta in attempt to nick €13m 7
By Anonymous Coward
Thursday 14th February 2019 15:20 GMT
open British and US militaries' drone swarm hackathon definitely isn't about army tech 9
By Anonymous Coward
Saturday 16th February 2019 12:49 GMT
open One click and you're out: UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once 377
By Jake Maverick
Sunday 17th February 2019 16:45 GMT
open Ever used VFEmail? No? Well, chances are you never will now: Hackers wipe servers, backups in 'catastrophic' attack 95
By HelpfulJohn
Friday 15th February 2019 18:45 GMT
open Q. What's a good thing to put outside a building of spies? A: A banner saying 'here we are!' 39
By David Shaw
Friday 15th February 2019 11:22 GMT
open First they came for Equifax and we did nothing because America. Now they are coming for back-end systems and we're... 26
By Aodhhan
Thursday 14th February 2019 14:08 GMT
open Intel SGX 'safe' room easily trashed by white-hat hacking marauders: Enclave malware demo'd 36
By Justthefacts
Saturday 16th February 2019 10:28 GMT
open 620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts 44
By Anonymous Coward
Friday 15th February 2019 01:55 GMT
open Network kit biz Phoenix takes heat as flaws may leave industrial control system security in ashes 1
By GnuTzu
Tuesday 12th February 2019 15:13 GMT
open Patch this run(DM)c Docker flaw or you be illin'... Tricky containers can root host boxes. It's like that – and that's the way it is 20
By soulrideruk
Wednesday 13th February 2019 16:03 GMT
open 'Now is the winter of our disk contents'... Decision on Lauri Love's seized gear due next week 22
By find users who cut cat tail
Wednesday 13th February 2019 07:45 GMT
open Accused hacker Lauri Love tries to retrieve Fujitsu lappie and other gear from Britain's FBI in court 30
By RichardB
Wednesday 13th February 2019 01:30 GMT
open Oh dear, Lads: Spam marketing bosses banned from forming UK firms for clobbering folk with 500k calls and texts 30
By N2
Thursday 14th February 2019 21:25 GMT
open QNAP NAS user? You'd better check your hosts file for mystery anti-antivirus entries 30
By Mark 65
Thursday 14th February 2019 02:28 GMT
open Alleged SIM swapping crypto-crooks cuffed, iOS app snooping, ad-fraud botnets, and more 5
By It's just me
Monday 11th February 2019 22:29 GMT
open Big trouble Down Under as Australian MPs told to reset their passwords amid hack attack fears 22
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 11th February 2019 02:57 GMT
open Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains 74
By Grinning Bandicoot
Tuesday 12th February 2019 21:07 GMT
open Webroot dunked in Carbonite: Should be quite well protected – if it survives the freezing process, that is 6
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 11th February 2019 15:55 GMT
open Leaky child-tracking smartwatch maker hits back at bad PR 59
By DavCrav
Monday 11th February 2019 16:59 GMT
open EE customer: Creepy ex used employee access to change my mobile number, spy on me 12
By Anonymous Coward
Wednesday 13th February 2019 14:48 GMT
open Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request 33
By 89724102172714182892114I7551670349743096734346773478647892349863592355648544996312855148587659264921
Tuesday 12th February 2019 05:44 GMT
open US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again) 50
By DCFusor
Sunday 10th February 2019 16:46 GMT
open Apple puts bullet through 'Do Not Track', FaceTime snooping bug and iOS vulnerabilities 27
By katrinab
Sunday 10th February 2019 23:01 GMT
open Mumsnet data leak: Moaning parents could see other users' privates after cloud migration 27
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 11th February 2019 13:33 GMT
open Trakt app users' personal data exposed: We were hit by a 'PHP exploit'... back in 2014 7
By FrogsAndChips
Thursday 7th February 2019 18:03 GMT
open At least Sony offered a t-shirt, says macOS flaw finder: Bug bounties now for Macs if you want this 0-day, Apple 40
By Thunderpants
Friday 8th February 2019 15:15 GMT
open Who are the last people you'd expect to spill thousands of student records? A computer science dept? What a fantastic guess 24
By Carpet Deal 'em
Friday 8th February 2019 20:35 GMT
open It's 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet: Patch me if you can 58
By DryBones
Monday 11th February 2019 14:08 GMT
open Accused hacker Lauri Love to sue National Crime Agency to retrieve confiscated computing kit 103
By Steve K
Monday 11th February 2019 14:41 GMT
open London's Met police confess: We made just one successful collar in latest facial recog trial 67
By Alan Brown
Saturday 9th February 2019 14:26 GMT
open I won't bother hunting and reporting more Sony zero-days, because all I'd get is a lousy t-shirt 61
By shawnfromnh
Friday 8th February 2019 00:14 GMT
open Google: All your leaked passwords are belong to us – here's a Chrome extension to find them 43
By Anonymous Coward
Monday 11th February 2019 17:26 GMT
open RIP, RDP... nearly: Security house Check Point punches holes in remote desktop tools 38
By DCFusor
Sunday 10th February 2019 16:01 GMT
open Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing 45
By Sam_B.
Thursday 7th February 2019 02:27 GMT
open Fake fuse: Bloke admits selling counterfeit chips for use in B-1 bomber, other US military gear 57
By W.S.Gosset
Thursday 7th February 2019 12:39 GMT
open Hi, Jack'd: A little PSA for anyone using this dating-hook-up app... Anyone can slurp your private, public snaps 12
By AdamWill
Wednesday 6th February 2019 21:28 GMT
open Boffin suggests Trappist monk approach for Spectre-Meltdown-grade processor flaws, other security holes: Don't say anything public – zip it 69
By eldakka
Tuesday 12th February 2019 00:39 GMT
open LibreOffice patches malicious code-execution bug, Apache OpenOffice – wait for it, wait for it – doesn't 61
By Captain Scarlet
Friday 8th February 2019 13:42 GMT
open European Commission orders mass recall of creepy, leaky child-tracking smartwatch 63
By TimMaher
Wednesday 6th February 2019 15:15 GMT
open Bug-hunter faces jail for vulnerability reports, DuckDuckPwn (almost), family spied on via Nest gizmo, and more 66
By Glen 1
Wednesday 6th February 2019 19:34 GMT
open Year after being blasted for dodgy security, GPS kid tracker biz takes heat again for leaving families' private info lying around for crims 14
By Cuddles
Tuesday 5th February 2019 10:57 GMT

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