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Web host Daily recovers after Tux-themed defacement

Lock-down follows cartoon penguin attack

27 Nov 15:56

McKinnon family 'devastated' by Home Sec's latest knock-back

Options running out for 'suicidal' Pentagon hacker

27 Nov 11:22

Gov net disconnections could breach EU law

May scupper free Wi-Fi too

27 Nov 10:15

Splinter Cell hack smells more like publicity stunt

Pwn or PR?

27 Nov 10:02

Johnson refuses to intervene in McKinnon extradition

'No discretion' says Home Sec

26 Nov 22:23

iPhone developer hires worm author

Strewth!

26 Nov 11:35

US Military cyber forces on the defensive in network battle

Operation Screaming Whimpering Fist

26 Nov 11:31

Opera update plugs heap big buffer overflow bug

Major upgrade features baked-in web server tech

24 Nov 10:44

Symantec Japan website bamboozled by hacker

Plaintext passwords revealed

23 Nov 16:58

Wrecking CRU: hackers cause massive climate data breach

Secretive scientists' source code goes walkabout

20 Nov 16:51

MS discovers flaw in Google plug-in for IE

Google whacked

20 Nov 11:10

Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe

Exclusive Microsoft's XSS buster busted

20 Nov 01:42

ISA report reveals email security lapse

Safeguarders slightly slipshod on safeguards

19 Nov 13:26

Fortinet launches rare net security IPO

Roll-up, roll-up

18 Nov 11:16

Trojans likely to follow Win 7 activation hack

Beware Greeks bearing security bypasses

17 Nov 13:12

DNSSec update deadline penciled in for 2011

Long awaited security upgrade heading for .com and .net

16 Nov 18:49

Adobe Flash attack vector exploits insecure web design

User-supplied malware upload peril

13 Nov 15:32

MS patent looks just like Unix command, critics howl

'Sudo for dummies'

12 Nov 19:00

UK's cyber warriors go into battle in March

Onward online soldiers

12 Nov 12:54

Win 7 remote kernel crasher code released

File and print freeze menace revealed

12 Nov 12:05

Malware cleans out jailbroken iPhones

Updated Hack tool wriggles through Rickroll worm hole

11 Nov 12:32

Lighter Patch Tuesday focuses on Windows flaws

Win 7 users get a month off for good behaviour

11 Nov 11:13

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?

Updated 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

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