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Would you hire a hacker to run your security? 'Yes' say Brit IT bosses

We don't have enough securo bods in the industry either, reckon gloomy BOFHs
John Leyden, 30 Sep 11:46

Hundreds of hackers sought for new £500m UK cyber-bomber strike force

Britain must rm -rf its enemies or be rm -rf'ed, declares defence secretary

NSA in new SHOCK 'can see public data' SCANDAL!

What you say on Twitter doesn't stay on Twitter
Richard Chirgwin, 30 Sep 01:56

Metasploit creator seeks crowd's help for vuln scanning

Project Sonar combines tools, data and research
Richard Chirgwin, 30 Sep 00:31

London schoolboy cuffed for BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY

Bet his parents wish he'd been playing computer games
Iain Thomson, 27 Sep 19:13

SIM card hacker: Bug is either 'a backdoor, gross negligence, or both'

QuotW Plus: Michael Gove wants to educate the yoof on how to swap sexting for love poems
Jasper Hamill, 27 Sep 07:34

Boffins: Internet transit a vulnerability

Mirror, mirror on the port, is this something I can rort?
Richard Chirgwin, 26 Sep 06:00

Icefog hit-and-run hackers uncovered in Asia

Less persistent but more focused targeted attacks hit hundreds
Phil Muncaster, 26 Sep 04:38

Krebs: Lexis-Nexis, D&B and Kroll hacked

Data-stealing botnet found in aggregators' services
Richard Chirgwin, 25 Sep 23:30

UK's Get Safe Online? 'No one cares' - run the blockbuster ads instead

Something like Jack Bauer's 24 ... whatever it'll take to teach kids how to bat away hackers
John Leyden, 25 Sep 09:32

Dodgy 'iMessage for Android' app deep-sixed by Google

Harvesting user credentials violates store policies
Richard Chirgwin, 24 Sep 21:34

The NSA's hiring - and they want a CIVIL LIBERTIES officer

In other news, the Spanish Inquisition want an equal opprtunities officer
John Leyden, 24 Sep 10:11
Three  UK Passports

UK.gov's e-Borders zombie still lurks under the English Channel

Blighty just can't seem to get it right on entry and exit controls
SA Mathieson, 24 Sep 09:03
The buttons on a mobile phone glow in the dark

How I hacked SIM cards with a single text - and the networks DON'T CARE

US and Euro telcos won't act until crims do, white hat sniffs
Bill Ray, 23 Sep 13:03

RSA: That NSA crypto-algorithm we put in our products? Stop using that

Encryption key tool was dodgy in 2007, and still dodgy now
John Leyden, 23 Sep 11:34

Opinion

Pussy galore: Bubble-bath webcam spy outrage

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Something someone showed me down the pub

NSA PRISM deepthroat VANISHES as pole-dance lover cries into keyboard

Video Blogging bikini babe blubs about 'the ones I never got to bid adieu'
Jasper Hamill, 11 Jun 11:45
Apple Store by Joka2000

Australia's de-facto Internet filter may block 250k sites

Baldrick's cunning plan turns into live grenade
Richard Chirgwin, 05 Jun 00:54

My bleak tech reality: You can't trust anyone or anything, anymore

Opinion Two-factor authentication? Fine, if you trust the Feds
Trevor Pott, 03 Jun 09:05

News

Java updates too much of a bother? Maybe online banking's just not for you

There's a Trojan that's got your number, and it's calling its chums to clean you out
John Leyden, 23 Sep 09:03

DeputyDog attack targets latest IE zero day

Bit9 attackers aim malware at Japanese 'entities'
Phil Muncaster, 23 Sep 03:58

'Occupy' affiliate claims Intel bakes SECRET 3G radio into vPro CPUs

Tinfoil hat brigade say every PC is on mobile networks, even when powered down
Richard Chirgwin, 23 Sep 02:29

Chaos Computer Club: iPhone 5S finger-sniffer COMPROMISED

Anyone can touch your phone and make it give up its all
Richard Chirgwin, 22 Sep 23:09

Layoffs at EMC's RSA security division

Can SecurID get in front of these curtains before they shut?
John Leyden, 20 Sep 21:43

Latest Snowden reveal: It was GCHQ that hacked Belgian telco giant

Cheltenham-in-the-middle attack against roaming smartphone convos
John Leyden, 20 Sep 13:59

'Bogus IT guys' slurp £1.3m from Barclays: Cybercops cuff 8 blokes

'Engineer' slipped remote-hack hardware INSIDE branch, says Met
John Leyden, 20 Sep 11:19

Riverbed flows faster with refreshed cloudy Whitewater gateways

Giving your data a hefty kick up the cloud storage
Chris Mellor, 20 Sep 09:57

New ransomware strain forces hapless users into becoming Bitcoin miners

Locks you out, throws away the key, hands you a virtual pickaxe: 'Start digging'
John Leyden, 19 Sep 19:31

So, Linus Torvalds: Did US spooks demand a backdoor in Linux? 'Yes'

Bless me barnacles, tha' tricksy Finn be joshin' ... yarr?
John Leyden, 19 Sep 11:27
Close-up of a woman's lips, slightly pixelated as if on a CRT TV

'Kissing couple' Trojan sent to slurp fanbois' data... Syrian Electronic Army fingered

She'll pop yer scuppers, but can't scuttle ye ... for now
John Leyden, 19 Sep 08:03
bug on keyboard

Telstra to DNS-block botnet C&Cs with unknown blacklist

What could possibly go wrong other than a C&C net sharing your colo barn's IP address?
Richard Chirgwin, 18 Sep 21:05
money_yen_dollar_pound

Leaked docs: NSA 'Follow the money' team slurped BANK records, CREDIT CARD data

German mag spills beans on monitored global bean-spilling
John Leyden, 18 Sep 16:47

Meet the Unmagnificent Seven: The critical holes plugged in Firefox update

The Old Man was right. Only the hackers win. We lost. We'll always lose
John Leyden, 18 Sep 14:29

Microsoft puts something hard and sensitive in your pocket

New security cert for Windows Phone gets Redmond closer to BlackBerry
Simon Sharwood, 18 Sep 06:34
Flag of Republic of China

'Honker Union' sniffs 270 hacktivism targets

Chinese group to mark Manchurian Incident with cyber nationalism raids
TOR Logo

Study finds fraudsters foist one-third of all Tor traffic

Anonymizing network 'disproportionately associated' with online skullduggery
Neil McAllister, 18 Sep 00:30
Roaring lynx

Securo-boffins link HIRED GUN hackers to Aurora, Bit9 megahacks

Researchers: It was 'resourceful' Hidden Lynx crew wot done it
John Leyden, 17 Sep 17:03