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Microsoft gives Office 365 admins the heads-up: Some internal queries over weekend might have returned results from completely different orgs
Microsoft had to warn a subset of Office 365 administrators over the weekend that their organisation might have inadvertently featured in an outsider's internal search results.…
Microsoft gives Office 365 admins the heads-up: Some internal queries over weekend might have returned results from completely different orgs
Microsoft had to warn a subset of Office 365 administrators over the weekend that their organisation might have inadvertently featured in an outsider's internal search results.…
I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)
Roundup Let's catch you up on infosec news beyond the bits and bytes we've already reported.…
I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)
Roundup Let's catch you up on infosec news beyond the bits and bytes we've already reported.…
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo
Who, Me? The weekend is receding, and Monday lumbers into view. Delay the inevitable with a tale of nautical nonsense from The Register's regular Who, Me? column.…
A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo
Who, Me? The weekend is receding, and Monday lumbers into view. Delay the inevitable with a tale of nautical nonsense from The Register's regular Who, Me? column.…
Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War
Dutch spies operating as a part of a European equivalent of the Five Eyes espionage alliance helped GCHQ break Argentinian codes during the Falklands War, it has been revealed.…
Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War
Dutch spies operating as a part of a European equivalent of the Five Eyes espionage alliance helped GCHQ break Argentinian codes during the Falklands War, it has been revealed.…
Cyber attack against UK power grid middleman Elexon sparks in-house IT recovery efforts
An important middleman in the UK's electrical power grid has suffered a cyber attack, though the lights are still on across good old Blighty.…
You can't have it both ways: Anti-coronavirus masks may thwart our creepy face-recog cameras, London cops admit
Counter-coronavirus masks may thwart London police plans to deploy creepy facial-recognition cameras across the capital, senior managers have admitted.…
Vint Cerf suggests GDPR could hurt coronavirus vaccine development
TCP-IP-co-developer Vint Cerf, revered as a critical contributor to the foundations of the internet, has floated the notion that privacy legislation might hinder the development of a vaccination for the COVID-19 coronavirus.…
Brit defense contractor hacked, up to 100,000 past and present employees' details siphoned off – report
Britain's Ministry of Defence contractor Interserve has been hacked, reportedly leaking the details of up to 100,000 of past and current employees, including payment information and details of their next of kin.…
Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps
A newly uncovered strain of Android spyware lurked on the Google Play Store disguised as cryptocurrency wallet Coinbase, among other things, for up to four years, according to a new report by Bitdefender.…
'iOS security is f**ked' says exploit broker Zerodium: Prices crash for taking a bite out of Apple's core tech
Five years ago, Zerodium offered a $1m reward for a browser-based, untethered jailbreak in iOS 9. On Wednesday, the software exploit broker said it won't pay anything for some iOS bugs due to an oversupply.…
There's Norway you're going to believe this: World's largest sovereign wealth fund conned out of $10m in cyber-attack
The Norwegian Investment Fund has been swindled out of $10m (£8.2m) by fraudsters who pulled off what's been described as "an advance data breach."…
US-CERT lists the 10 most-exploited security bugs and, yeah, it's mostly Microsoft holes people forgot to patch
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Windows Server, for which patches have been available for years, continue to be the favorite target for hackers looking to spread malware.…
Aussie money-manager MyBudget goes down for five days
One of Australia's largest debt-management services has gone TITSUP, leaving thousands of users in financial limbo.…
Now there's nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant
An amendment that would require the FBI get a warrant before they access Americans’ web-browsing history failed to pass by a single vote in the US Senate on Wednesday.…
Senator Wyden demands deep probe into NSO Group after spyware-hacking toolkit offered to American cops
A prominent senator has called for “aggressive oversight” into the sale of the NSO Group's hacking-and-spying tools to police forces in America.…
Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID
Privacy pressure group Noyb has filed a legal complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming the Android Advertising ID on every Android device is "personal data" as defined by the EU's GDPR and that this data is illegally processed.…
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