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Pentagon chiefs buy net-security early warning system

'Arming the cyber warrior'

10 Nov 15:52

Firefox flaws make up 44% of all browser bugs?

But numbers game ignores the big picture

10 Nov 15:03

Play.com emails customer details to other customers

No explanation yet from data-spraying vendor

9 Nov 11:43

Cybercriminals down five British police forces in a year

For more than three days each

5 Nov 10:39

Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses

User Account Control easily bypassed

4 Nov 13:22

Whitehall plans 'White Noise' phone network collapse

Unjoined-up government, coming next week

4 Nov 12:50

Lords want help on cyber attacks

Give the learned gents a hand

4 Nov 11:51

PrevX piles in against bank Trojans, phishing

Plugging gaps in traditional anti-malware

4 Nov 11:42

M86 picks up Finjan to tackle web-based threats

Doubling up on behaviour-based protection

3 Nov 11:45

eBay.co.uk blocked for smelling phishy

OpenDNS makes oopsie

30 Oct 11:11

Raytheon buys BBN for 'about $350m'

Arms biz buys up the "@" in email

27 Oct 09:21

Rapid7 penetrates Metaspolit

Pen testing tool gets commercial backing

23 Oct 10:49

iPhones and social networking add to IT security headaches

RSA Europe 2009 A security admin's life is not a happy one

20 Oct 21:58

Maradona's website hacked after last-gasp Argentina victory

Peruvian miscreants leave him crying in the rain

13 Oct 10:53

The Register primer on web based threats (and their changing nature)

I'm Bad, You Know it

8 Oct 10:02

IE, Chrome, Safari duped by bogus PayPal SSL cert

Fraudulent credential, real risk

5 Oct 23:24

DDoS attack rains down on Amazon cloud

Updated Code haven tumbles from sky

5 Oct 15:32

Mozilla unveils cure for Web 2.0 world run amok

Putting XSS worms on notice

3 Oct 02:28

Sunbelt buckles up for anti-bloatware drive

Slow, fat rivals taken to task

28 Sep 15:57

Open source code quality improving

Can Microsoft say better?

25 Sep 15:25

New cyber-security research centre opens in Belfast

'Forget GCHQ, we're the daddies now'

24 Sep 09:40

Secret teen hacker army ridiculed

Wayward minister making stuff up again?

24 Sep 09:14

Demon splurges details of 3,600 customers in billing email

Passwords too

23 Sep 10:30

Govt report card logs UK hacking conviction success rate

56% - Could do better

22 Sep 13:50

Online ID theft, an employee IT security guide

Site offer How to avoid it, silly

22 Sep 10:36

Word handling bug shoots down StarOffice

Starstruck

21 Sep 11:28

US healthcare data plan slammed for encryption get-out clause

We decide who needs to know

17 Sep 16:26

IETF forges botnet clean-up standard

Shooting zombie PCs in the head

17 Sep 13:00

Microsoft security tools give devs the warm fuzzies

Testing times

16 Sep 17:42

Database containing 1.8m UK postcode locations leaks online

Knock, knock. Who's there?

16 Sep 15:41

Power grid takedown: A new how-to

Domino effect could short-circuit US West Coast

16 Sep 13:22

Firms fail to focus on most dangerous security threats

Web and client side bugs top peril index

16 Sep 10:30

MS insists bodged fix didn't spawn Windows crash risk

Teardrop Explodes

14 Sep 14:44

New York Times pwned to serve scareware pop-ups

Gray Lady gets goosed

14 Sep 10:17

RBS WorldPay downplays database hack reports

Updated 'No access to either merchant or cardholder accounts'

11 Sep 11:50

Sky News election petition defaced by prankster hackers

Windbag windup

11 Sep 11:16

Obama closes in on cybersecurity czar appointment

Former Clinton-era Pentagon official emerges as front runner

10 Sep 15:58

Firefox update quells quartet of security vulns

Alka-seltzer patches also soothe stability wobbles

10 Sep 10:34

Oz government sites floored in firewall protests

Small earthquake in Canberra. Not many websites hurt

10 Sep 07:40

Flight sim site turns over hacker evidence to UK cops

Shoot 'em down, says Avsim

9 Sep 12:40

Microsoft, Cisco issue patches for newfangled DoS exploit

Updated Relief for industry-wide TCP attack

9 Sep 01:13

Adobe and Oracle postpone quarterly patches

Schtop! This security update isn't ready yet

8 Sep 19:51

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