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Naver raver charged over 25 MEEELLION account breach palaver

£90,000 heist made possible after South Korean portal yields its secrets
Phil Muncaster, 27 Mar 07:33

Cisco ships six fixes for DoS bugs

Happy Thursday, sysadmins
Richard Chirgwin, 27 Mar 05:02

Full Disclosure redux: under new management

Starting with a clean slate
Richard Chirgwin, 27 Mar 03:02

Passport PIN tech could have SAVED MH370 ID fraudsters

Integrated keypad security? They'd never have made it onboard
John Leyden, 26 Mar 11:59

Chinese cops cuff 1,500 in fake base station spam raid

Thousands of devices, hundreds of millions of unwanted texts
Phil Muncaster, 26 Mar 05:34

Banks lob sueball at Trustwave, Target over breach

'Round-the-clock monitoring' spun out, missed vulnerabilities
Richard Chirgwin, 26 Mar 02:02

Cybercrook? Bent on mischief? WE'LL GET YOU, vow Facebook and pals

Secure Domain Foundation will pull rug from under web miscreants
John Leyden, 25 Mar 08:27

Bruce Schneier sneers at IBM's NSA denials

Security chap pens open letter to Big Blue blowing holes in Big Blue's open letter
Simon Sharwood, 25 Mar 07:26

Forget black hats – the best hackers are going grey and getting legit

Bug bounties make going legit a tempting proposition
Iain Thomson, 25 Mar 06:02

Palo Alto Networks splashes $US200 million on Cyvera

Israeli TRAPS the prize as PAN boosts endpoint protection portfolio
Richard Chirgwin, 25 Mar 01:28
blackmail

Extortion racket borks Basecamp servers with 20Gbps web bombing

Project wrangling biz goes titsup for two hours after refusing to pay crims
Iain Thomson, 24 Mar 21:43
Windows 9x BSOD

It's 2014 and you can pwn a PC by opening a .RTF in Word, Outlook

Windows giant warns security flaw exploited in wild, but no patch available right now
Jack Clark, 24 Mar 20:32
Google Glass

Hey, Glasshole: That cool app? It has turned you into a SPY DRONE

Google Glass spyware can use users as surveillance drones
John Leyden, 24 Mar 11:35

Opinion

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They want me to install CCTV to see what YOU did in the TOILET

Something For The Weekend, Sir? Anti-social social media - it's for winners

Reg HPC man relives 0-day rootkit GROUNDHOG DAY

HPC blog Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties...
South Korean spam

Spam, a lot of it: Bubble tea is the Seoul of wit

Something for the Weekend, Sir? South Korea’s Hall of Shame
Alistair Dabbs, 14 Feb 12:03

Speaking in Tech: The Snowden Effect... Why 2014 will be the year of PRIVATE cloud

Podcast Plus: SSD pioneer Violin... OMG - Don's gone
Team Register, 25 Dec 13:12

News

Interview: Cisco's security supremo on the Internet of Everything

El Reg asks Chris Young how we can stop the IoT becoming a $19 TREELLLION honeypot
Richard Chirgwin, 24 Mar 00:58

Boffins working on debris float models to track MH370 wreckage

UPDATE China claims its plane saw 'two relatively big floating objects with many white smaller ones'
Simon Sharwood, 23 Mar 23:58

US saves self from Huawei spying by spying on Huawei spying

Snowdenistas say NSA hacked Chinese company, accessed source code
Simon Sharwood, 23 Mar 22:24

Android update process gives malware a leg-up to evil: Indiana U

Old apps get access to privileges that didn't exist when they were written
Richard Chirgwin, 23 Mar 21:48

Microsoft charges the FBI $50 for a copy of your private data, claim 'Redmond hackers'

'Syrian' hacktivists loot tech giant's servers, it's alleged
John Leyden, 21 Mar 21:03

White House may ditch BlackBerry, adopt LG or Samsung, ignore Apple

Updated More bad news for struggling Canuckphone as high-profile customer looks elsewhere
Rik Myslewski, 21 Mar 18:28

ZOMBIE iPAD PERIL? Cyberbadness slinger touts tool for iOS

Skype worms, Bitcoin slurping and more – yours for just £2k. Too good to be true?
John Leyden, 21 Mar 15:01

They want me to install CCTV to see what YOU did in the TOILET

Something For The Weekend, Sir? Anti-social social media - it's for winners
Alistair Dabbs, 21 Mar 13:59

ICO decides against probe of Santander email spam scammers

Not enough 'evidence' ... while readers insist unique-to-bank addresses used
John Leyden, 21 Mar 11:33

'It is disappointing that the government secretly did this stuff'

Quotw Plus: 'DeepMind discovered cats on its own'

MtGox finds 200,000 Bitcoin in old wallets

Upside for creditors is prospect for refunds, downside is MtGox was clearly very disorganised
Simon Sharwood, 21 Mar 07:35

NSA 'hunted sysadmins' to find CAT PHOTOS, high-level passwords

Latest Snowden docs detail sniffing sysadmin activity to help attacks on carriers' routers
Simon Sharwood, 21 Mar 06:29
Great Wall of China

India's outsourcers look east with eyes on Asian tigers

China, Japan and South Korea could be next for Nasscom
Phil Muncaster, 21 Mar 05:28

Tor Project claims 'fake' Tor Browser sat in iOS App Store for months

Team Onion raises a stink over shady app which Apple ignored – until this afternoon
Shaun Nichols, 21 Mar 02:03

Google grabs Gmail-using HTTPS refuseniks and coats them with SSL

You'll take this mandatory encryption even if the NSA can crack it
Iain Thomson, 21 Mar 00:58
Sergy Brin meets Snowden

'Arrogant' Snowden putting lives at risk, says NSA's deputy spyboss

TED 2014 President Madison would be proud, we just need better PR, huffs bigwig
Iain Thomson, 20 Mar 21:28
chalk outline of  human body at crime scene

'Weev' attempts to overturn AT&T iPad 'hack' conviction

Insecure servers are publicly accessible, argue defence lawyers
John Leyden, 20 Mar 15:56

EA games web server was hosting PHISHING SITE – securobod

Old vulnerable software gave hackers a way in, claims researcher

Keep your quinoa, hipsters: Boffins back healthy slabs of choc

Now with added facts to spout while defiantly wolfing your bar
Richard Chirgwin, 20 Mar 06:32
The zone where Australian planes are searching for MH370 debris

Planes fail to find 'credible' candidate for flight MH370 wreckage

Updated2 Ships and new flights return to area where 24-metre objects spotted Thursday
Simon Sharwood, 20 Mar 05:15
Tim Berners-Lee and Edward Snowden

ROBO-SNOWDEN: Iraq, the internet – two places the US govt invaded that weren't a threat

Pics Fugitive leaker hailed by Berners-Lee at McScience gig
Iain Thomson, 19 Mar 22:24