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Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

Redmond's Family Settings now block browsers-without-filters by default, but which ones?
80 Comments
05 Sep 04:30

Pixellation popped: AI can ID you, even after PhotoShop phuzzing

Like humans, machines can ID obfuscated faces - only faster
11 Comments
05 Sep 03:58

Extra Bacon? Yes please, even though the Cisco bug of this name is bad for you

Probably-NSA-sourced bug isn't being patched, even by UK government users
10 Comments
05 Sep 02:17

Google swats Nexus 5X vulnerable fastboot memory dump flaw

Hacker stole your phone? Time to OEM panic.
04 Sep 23:57

Bloke accused of Linux kernel.org hack nabbed during traffic stop

Possible 40 years in the Big House for 2011 infiltration of open-source world's servers
38 Comments
02 Sep 19:08

NBA's Golden State Warriors sued for 'mic snooping' mobile app

Fans cry foul over excessive recording powers
16 Comments
02 Sep 18:26

Hacking mobile login tokens tricky but doable, says reverse-engineer

I think I'm a clone now, there's always two of me just a-hangin' around
02 Sep 17:31

Azerbaijani hacktivists leak Armenian security service docs

Hardly a Snowden, though: Passport details of nation's visitors leaked
02 Sep 13:33

Kaspersky 'terminates' deal with security reseller Quadsys

Hack a rival? We're not cool with that, says Russian AV titan
02 Sep 12:33

Adobe ices ColdFusion server admin password, file hack hole

Slap patch, no need to reboot
11 Comments
02 Sep 06:30

Lightspeed PoS vendor breached, sensitive database tapped

Vendor: 'We've applied new patches and access controls!' Sys admin: 'Whaddya mean NEW?!'
02 Sep 05:56

Google crushes 33 Chrome bugs, pays boffins more than $56k

Uni kid's turn to shout.
02 Sep 04:05

Patch now: Apple emits fix for Pegasus spyware bugs in OS X, Safari

Vulns in iOS show up in shared code with desktop cousins
02 Sep 00:36

How much does your kid hate exams? This lad hacked his government to skip them

Teen cuffed in policy rewrite stunt
24 Comments
01 Sep 23:34
Kimpton Hotels

Did you stay at any of these 60 Kimpton hotels? Whelp, hackers have your card details

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Hotel chain hit with POS malware
01 Sep 22:38

Opinion

Australia Post says use blockchain for voting. Expert: you're kidding

Centralise the decentralised. Magic happens, then profit
Woman uses card reader at coffeee shop. Photo by Shutterstock

Speaking in Tech: Nope, sorry waiter. I won't pay with that card reader

Podcast PoS issues? It's not like consumers have any control
27 Comments
10 Aug 10:02
A cute cat in a jumper waves goodbye.... Pic via Shutterstock

Oz stats bureau deploys a bot to harvest Twitter IDs

Which genius thought it was a good idea to cheerily send messages without opt-in?
10 Comments
03 Aug 23:09
Facepalm from Shutterstock

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has made a hash of the census

Bootnoted Promising wonderful outcomes without explaining privacy protection burns the public's trust
40 Comments
01 Aug 22:52

News

George W Bush hacker Guccifer to spend 52 months in the big house

And that's on top of the seven years in the clink in his home nation of Romania
01 Sep 20:10

Transmission hijacked to broadcast Mac malware

BitTorrent client gets trojanised
01 Sep 16:27

Healthcare and local gov are most likely UK bodies to suffer infosec breaches

New figures reveal doubling in reported data losses
01 Sep 09:42

Cisco SOHO switches patched for SOHOpeless vuln

Buggy defaults in SNMP
01 Sep 03:56

Blackhat wannabes proffer probably bogus Linux scamsomware

'We nicked your files, pay us or we'll leak,' warns pastebin note
12 Comments
01 Sep 03:05

L0phtCrack's back! Crack hack app whacks Windows 10 trash hashes

Get ready to crack passwords up to 500x times faster
57 Comments
01 Sep 02:30

MedSec's 'hackable pacemaker' report autopsy: Bombshell crash claim in doubt

No conclusive evidence of bricked devices, say uni experts
21 Comments
01 Sep 01:57

FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption

How about f**k off – is that adult enough?
148 Comments
31 Aug 21:32

Angler's obituary: Super exploit kit was the work of Russia's Lurk group

Kasperksky's chief malware sleuth solves the mystery of the doomed exploit juggernaut
31 Aug 08:30

HPE yawns, stretches, and patches January OpenSSH bug in virtual access products

lighttpd also gets a fix
31 Aug 04:05

More banks plundered through SWIFT attacks

Shape up, cause the Bangladesh Bank hack is just the start, SWIFT warns
13 Comments
31 Aug 03:05

Dropbox: Leaked DB of 68 million account passwords is real

Login details are strongly hashed and date back to 2012
28 Comments
31 Aug 01:30
bee

USBee stings air-gapped PCs: Wirelessly leak secrets with a file write

Video Technique turns connected storage devices into transmitters
32 Comments
31 Aug 00:32

OneLogin breached, hacker finds cleartext credential notepads

'Store your firewall password here' notes pillaged
25 Comments
31 Aug 00:07
Minecraft HoloLens

71,000 Minecraft World Map accounts leaked online after 'hack'

Dumped creds have been exposed since January
14 Comments
30 Aug 12:34
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Ripper! Boffins find malware thought behind $347k Thai ATM raids

Evil EMV card pwns NCR ATMs, sets dispensary to max
10 Comments
30 Aug 04:05

Victoria Gov tips $6.5M into uni security seeder, city-country farm tech

Garden State wants a thousand startups to bloom
30 Aug 01:56

FBI: Look out – hackers are breaking into US election board systems

SQL injection attack used to slurp voters' info
24 Comments
29 Aug 19:46
fail

Chinese CA hands guy base certificates for GitHub, Florida uni

Man-in-the-middle diddle
Sweet32 logo

Big data busts crypto: 'Sweet32' captures collisions in old ciphers

Boffins blow up Blowfish and double down on triple DES
22 Comments
29 Aug 07:05

Russia MP's son found guilty after stealing 2.9 million US credit cards

Point of sales malware wrought $169 million in damages.
21 Comments
29 Aug 04:30

NewSat network breach 'most corrupted' Oz spooks had seen: report

Spies had interception kit in Satellite provider's data centre, ex staffer tells El Reg
20 Comments
29 Aug 02:55
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