Big Tech has told the UK government it will do more to remove extremist content from their networks, but has refused to offer concessions on encryption.…
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Security watchers have reacted positively to recently announced improvements to Microsoft’s Edge browser, which had earned an unenviable reputation for easy pwnage.…
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Promo To many Internet users it must look as if ransomware arrived out of the blue. Pioneers such as Cryzip started circulating at very low levels in the UK as early as 2006 and yet it wasn’t until 2013 that this type of malware suddenly spiked with the appearance of its first big global superstar, CryptoLocker.…
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Apple today released iOS 10.3, watchOS 3.2 and tvOS 10.2 (14W265), the first two of all of which bring some pleasing extra functionality to iThings, But the main attraction in the new release is Apple File System, because it adds comprehensive encryption to the iPhone and Apple Watch.…
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InfraGard.org is supposed to be on of the United States’ defences against online criminals. But the FBI-led service is currently the subject of a typosquatting and email attack that could see organisations seeking protection instead send their personal data straight to parties unknown.…
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Cybercrooks are using a bot to automate the process of breaking into and draining online gift card accounts.…
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US embassies have been told to examine social media accounts of visa applicants who have ever set foot in Islamic-State-controlled areas.…
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The DDoS attack business has advanced to the point that running an attack can cost as little as $ 7 an hour, while the targeted company can end up losing thousands, if not millions of dollars.…
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Web tat bazaar eBay appears to be suggesting its readers adopt known-to-be-insecure practices when logging on to the service.…
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A security researcher has welcomed the UK’s launch of a vulnerability co-ordination pilot while cautioning that a strategy for handling Freedom of Information requests needs to be developed.…
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From today, passengers are banned from flying into the US from specific overseas airports if their carry-on luggage contains devices larger than a mobile phone. The clampdown is a result of counterterrorism intelligence, we understand.…
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Atlassian has joined the growing list of vendors to patch its products against the Apache Struts 2 vulnerability.…
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A New Jersey pastor and a Florida software engineer were today found guilty of bribery, wire fraud, bank fraud, and fraud conspiracy.…
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Friday is usually a good day to bury bad news and there are a number of stories bubbling under before we all head out for the weekend.…
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Your antivirus and network protection efforts may actually be undermining network security, a new paper and subsequent CERT advisory have warned.…
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The Xen Project has bent its own rules of vulnerability disclosure for a buggy and possibly exploitable video component that needs urgent attention.…
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Researchers have spotted a variant of last year’s Petya ransomware, now with updated crypto and ransomware models.…
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The web has a security problem: code libraries. Almost 88 per cent of the top 75,000 websites and 47 per cent of .com websites rely on at least one vulnerable JavaScript library.…
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The Ministry of Defence has spent around £200m rebuilding a jetty at HM Naval Base Portsmouth ready for the arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth later this year. El Reg got invited to watch an American supply ship test it out.…
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Mohan Nirala, 52, a former employee of the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, received a prison sentence of 12 months and a day on Friday for storing national defense information in violation of the law.…
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Jeff Atwood, founder of the popular coding site Stack Overflow, has published an extended and entertaining rant about the lamentable state of password policy among developers.…
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Spoofed email and malware hidden in attachments netted crooks in West Africa more than $ 3bn in three years from businesses.…
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Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.…
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Sysadmin blog Hardly a day passes without some kind of major security breach. The type of attack that was once considered staggering in scale has now become the norm.…
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A researcher who in January helped highlight possible flaws in Intel’s Software Guard Extensions’ input-output protection is back, this time with malware running inside a protected SGX enclave.…
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Google and Microsoft have both increased the cash on offer under their bug bounty programs.…
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Major financial firms operating in New York need to comply with tougher cybersecurity rules that came into effect this week.…
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US Vice President Mike Pence has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed he used his personal AOL account for state government business.…
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When Google revealed last week that it had destroyed the SHA-1 algorithm, it hammered another nail into the venerable algo’s coffin.…
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Sigaint, one of the largest dark web email providers, is approaching its third week of unavailability with still no clear signs about what’s happening to the service.…
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Palo Alto Networks has acquired smaller cyber security firm LightCyber for $ 105m in cash.…
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