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Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners

Border Agency puts multimillion-pound system under review

Security 17 Feb 13:21

'The full harm to Apple cannot be calculated'

Quotw Plus LightSquared's rage as the FCC 'changes its mind'

Security 17 Feb 11:03

DNS flaw reanimates slain evil sites as ghost domains

Analysis Life after death trick could be exploited by cyber-crooks

Security 16 Feb 19:01

'Predictably random' public keys can be cracked - crypto boffins

Analysis Battling researchers argue over whether you should panic

Enterprise Security 16 Feb 13:38

Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL

ICO fines Cheshire East £80k for data breach

ID 16 Feb 09:03

Euro data protection: Great for punters, not for biz - MoJ wonk

Comment Whitehall man seeks views on 'disproportionate' draft law

ID 16 Feb 08:01

Twitter mobile apps storing address books for 18 months

Tim Cook quizzed by Congress on privacy

ID 15 Feb 19:13

Critical IE update dominates Valentine’s Patch Tuesday

Explorer patch the only one giving sysadmins the fear

Security 15 Feb 17:27

Google tightens its Wallet after PIN reset goof

Now only proper hackers can steal punters' dosh

Security 15 Feb 16:04

Bonkers MS security update flags Google.com as malign

Don't be evil silly

Malware 15 Feb 13:14

Whistleblower: Decade-long Nortel hack 'traced to China'

They had access to everything

Enterprise Security 15 Feb 11:41

Blighty's gov to spunk up to £2.9b on crim-stalking tech

Six-year deal touted for software and gear by Ministry of Justice

Crime 15 Feb 09:32

Microsoft code not the security sieve sysadmins should be worried about

Study finds hackers aren't hitting the apps your biz thinks they are

Enterprise Security 15 Feb 09:03

Child abuse files stolen from council worker in PUB - £100k fine

Another council coughs £80k for HAND-DELIVERING kid's info to neighbour

ID 15 Feb 08:04

Scroogle: Dear Google, we're not bots, we're HUMAN

With every Choc Factory privacy policy season, die die die!

ID 14 Feb 17:34

Teen hacker claims smut site hack

Hardcore group 'fesses up to breach as youth uploads 'members' privates'

Crime 14 Feb 15:29

Twitter finally grabs wheel, drives all twits into HTTPS

Cafe Wi-Fi tweeting protected from sniffing hackers

Enterprise Security 14 Feb 13:04

Cryptome.org hacked to dish out malware

Compromised whistle-blowing HQ begins site rebuild

Malware 14 Feb 11:47

Trustwave to escape 'death penalty' for SSL skeleton key

Analysis Moz likely to spare certificate-confession biz same fate as DigiNotar

Enterprise Security 14 Feb 09:28

FIVE more councils say soz for exposing people's privates

'Disclosing details about someone's social housing status can be upsetting'

ID 14 Feb 08:06

Iranians get some services back

Censor’s dead hand still felt on Facebook, Twitter

Security 13 Feb 22:00

TicketWeb coughs to email database hack

Punters get phishy mails sniffing for credit card info

Security 13 Feb 15:02

Anonymous reverse ferrets on CIA.gov takedown

'We blacked out website merely reported the outage'

Security 13 Feb 14:16

Microsoft India web store 'hacked by Chinese group'

Evil Shadow Team pounces, claims it uncovered passwords

Security 13 Feb 12:03

Google locks Wallets – no new customers for now

Speed bump on the road to wireless payments

Security 13 Feb 11:46

Microsoft to send users 4 critical patches on Valentine's Day

Sealed with an XSS

Security 10 Feb 16:06

Penang fraud gang 'ringleader' snared by Taiwan police

Gang man Huang banged up

Crime 10 Feb 15:02

EU competition chief threatens patent war smackdown

Tough-talking Almunia will take mobile giants to task

Security 10 Feb 13:43

Virtual Nazi-code-cracking Colossus in fundraising appeal

Sponsor pixels for new £150k exhibition at Bletchley Park

Security 10 Feb 12:43

Google Wallet falls open after casual hack

Crack the PIN? No, just hit reset

Security 10 Feb 11:21

Malware devs embrace open-source

Blackhatters desperate for props from pals, says security firm

Malware 10 Feb 09:42

Met thumbed through Oyster card data up to 22,000 times in 4 years

Requests for info on passengers' movements up 15%

Security 10 Feb 09:01

Airport bomb Twitter joker in second fine appeal bid

Judges deliberating whether or not to quash conviction

Security 9 Feb 15:43

UK cops set up new £30m bases to nail cybercrooks

They're proper champion e-bobbies

Crime 9 Feb 13:22

Google Wallet PIN security cracked in seconds

Update Luckily no one important is using it

Security 9 Feb 12:39

Trustwave admits crafting SSL snooping certificate

Allowing bosses to spy on staff was wrong, says security biz

Enterprise Security 9 Feb 11:03

Hackers claim to have penetrated Foxconn backdoor

We don't care about iPhones or workers, only lulz

Enterprise Security 9 Feb 09:17

Path runs screaming from privacy snafu

We meant to copy your address book but we didn’t think you’d mind

Security 8 Feb 21:10

Chrome to weed out dodgy website SSL certificates by itself

Ditched online checks like 'seat belt that snaps when you crash'

Security 8 Feb 17:23

New driver-snooping satnav could push down UK insurance premiums

TomTom signs up with Motaquote to stuff spy in GPS box

Security 8 Feb 16:18

Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox

Telemetry has no UUID, Metrics Data Ping might

ID 8 Feb 15:14

Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off

Foul-smelling brooms purge carriages of surfing commuters

Crime 8 Feb 14:39

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