The Register The nations of the Five Eyes security alliance – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK – plus Japan and India, have called on technology companies to design their products so …
The Register Software AG has seemingly been hit by ransomware, with the German IT giant itself telling the Euro nation’s stock market it had been “affected by a malware attack.” In a notification to the …
The Register A Russian scumbag found guilty of hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring – and stealing data on over 200 million users – has been sent down for more than seven years. Yevgeniy Nikulin …
The Register Most online attacks could be easily avoided by following basic cyber security advice, Australia’s national cyber security bureau has said – even as it warned that the impact and severity of things like …
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The Register Three individuals were charged on Friday for allegedly hijacking a string of high-profile Twitter accounts after hoodwinking the social network’s staff. It is claimed a social-engineering-driven phishing campaign against Twitter employees led to …
The Register The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has been accused of trying to tamper with a court that is supposed to oversee and regulate it after an extraordinary tale emerged yesterday. Two spies …
The Register Twitter has revealed more about the July 15 attack that saw several prominent accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin scam. The Saturday, July 18 update admits the attackers successfully manipulated a small number …
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The Register Netgear has now patched 28 out of 79 vulnerable router models, six months after infosec researchers first noticed security problems potentially allowing an attacker to remotely execute code as root. The latest hotfixes …
The Register From September 1, Apple software, from Safari to macOS to iOS, will reject new HTTPS and other SSL/TLS certificates that are valid for more than 398 days, plus or minus some caveats. If …
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The Register Automated facial recognition (AFR) use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff. Put simply, connected to …
The Register The Mozilla Foundation has announced it will soon launch its VPN. The organisation’s announcement is rather vague, as it says the product will debut “in the next few weeks” and protect up to …
The Register Three weeks after Google removed 49 Chrome extensions from its browser’s software store for stealing crypto-wallet credentials, 11 more password-swiping add-ons have been spotted – and some are still available to download. The …