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Obama says USA has world's biggest and best cyber arsenal
Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit
98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled
VMware's Virtual SAN to gain data-at-rest encryption
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VMware's Virtual SAN to gain data-at-rest encryption
Tech-for-insurers biz out of action for 10 days now. Hope they had, er...
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Adobe reverses decision to kill NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux
Debian plugs Linux 'TCP snoop' bug
'I'm sorry, your lift has had a problem and had to shut down'
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ABBA-solutely crapulous! Swedish router-maker won't patch gaping hole
'Power equipment failure' borks EE's data services across England
Hey, uh ICANN. US govt here. You know we said we'd give you the keys to the 'net? Yeaahhh...
The Internet of Things can transform your business … once your networks are ready
Obama says USA has world's biggest and best cyber arsenal
Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit
98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled
Sophos Windows users face black screens after false positive snafu
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Your colleagues will lie to you: An enterprise architect's life
The old public, private, or home school sorting bin
No supercomputer cash? Time for a systems squeeze
Bimodal IT: Let the backlash begin
Nutanix buys anon firm in India. DevOps upstart Calm won't comment...
Same job, different place: US salaries top DevOps pay packet poll
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Obama says USA has world's biggest and best cyber arsenal
United States president Barack Obama says the nation he leads has the world's foremost digital arsenal.
Simon Sharwood,
06 Sep 06:00
Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit
A Pokemon fan has brewed up a stealthy rootkit targeting Linux.
Darren Pauli,
06 Sep 05:00
98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled
'Яussian Yahoo
!
' may just have become world's biggest breach
Darren Pauli,
06 Sep 04:01
Sophos Windows users face black screens after false positive snafu
Black is the new BSOD
41
John Leyden,
05 Sep 11:06
Sundown exploit kit authors champions of copy-paste hacking
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Darren Pauli,
05 Sep 06:28
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
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
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
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
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
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
71,000 Minecraft World Map accounts leaked online after 'hack'
Dumped creds have been exposed since January
14 Comments
30 Aug 12:34
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
Chinese CA hands guy base certificates for GitHub, Florida uni
Man-in-the-middle diddle
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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