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There's an app for that. Or text, if you dare. Or even retail outlets

Singapore will bin the physical tokens used to provide two-factor authentication (2FA) for some digital government services.…

Lots of non-savvy users may be recycling previously hacked creds

Group video chat app Houseparty has offered a $1m bounty to identify what it claims is an organised campaign to falsely depict it as a hackers' backdoor.…

How many customers' deets? It's not saying just yet

Marriot Hotels has suffered its second data spillage in as many years after an "unexpected amount" of guests' data was accessed through two compromised employee logins, the under-fire chain has confirmed.…

Don't worry, though. Any 'systematic' data extraction would be 'time-consuming'

The digital burglary at 118 118 Money exposed recordings of customer service calls that included a raft of personal information although thankfully not payment data.…

Plus, Google warns of fake journo phishing attacks

Roundup  It's once again time for the El Reg security roundup.…

'The future of cybersecurity is the responsibility of everyone'

Promo  As women take more senior positions in the field of cybersecurity, there's a shortage of women available to mentor others.…

Doc Frown: Searls decries video-conferencing software's 'creepy' closeness with ad tracking

As the global coronavirus pandemic pushes the popularity of videoconferencing app Zoom to new heights, one web veteran has sounded the alarm over its "creepily chummy" relationship with tracking-based advertisers.…

'We believe the stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security of our graphics products'

On Wednesday, AMD confirmed intellectual property related to its graphics processors was stolen last year, though insisted the leaked files will not damage its business nor compromise product security.…

Citrix, Cisco and Zoho-pwning APT41 attack wave seems in awfully bad taste

Proving that no good crisis ever goes to waste, Chinese government hacking crew APT41 launched a campaign that abuses vulns in Citrix Netscaler and Zoho ManageEngine, according to threat intel outfit FireEye.…

Isolation is the perfect time to learn new skills

Promo  Amid this planet's ongoing pandemic and stay-at-home measures, if you’re keen to repurpose all that time previously spent commuting, attending conferences, and so on, why not take a look at the SANS Institute’s Online Cybersecurity Training.…

And now back on their feet after global two-hour wobble

Symantec customers, or rather Broadcom customers these days, were taken offline for a while on Wednesday when the security service's data centers around the planet went down.…

Branded lunchbox biz didn't answer for 5 days, alleges infosec firm

Tupperware, maker of the plastic food containers beloved of the Western middle classes, has an active and ongoing malware infection on its website that steals credit card data and passes it to criminals.…

Please update your contact details in this handy spreadsheet ... oh

A UK housing association blurted 3,500 people's sensitive personal data as part of a bungled "please update your contact details" email exercise, The Register has been told.…

Dozens of bugs swatted in latest Cupertino updates

Apple has emitted a bundle of security fixes ranging across its product lines.…

Patch this flaw, unless you want random docs to wipe out your work

Adobe has issued a patch for a critical flaw that can be exploited to delete files from Windows computers running the Creative Cloud client.…

Integrate your disconnected products and management if you want to survive

Webcast  In a recent survey, nine out of 10 organisations that suffered a significant security attack were running up-to-date cybersecurity software. They did what everyone told them to do, and it wasn’t enough.…

No word on what digi burglars lifted

The parent firm of directory enquiry service 118 118 has yanked offline its finance division's website after detecting unauthorised access by a person or persons unknown, The Register can reveal.…

Yes, you may have detected some sarcasm

An annoying security flaw been disclosed and promptly fixed in the fairly popular memcached distributed data-caching software.…

Spreading in the wild, no vaccine, people told to distance themselves from dodgy sources... sounds familiar

Hackers are commandeering victims' Windows PCs by exploiting at least one remote-code-execution flaw in the Adobe Type Manager Library included with the Microsoft operating system. No patches are available right now.…

Suspected carriers need to stay home – and we should use their phones to monitor them, we're told

Tracking the movements of suspected COVID-19 coronavirus carriers has proved an essential tool in controlling the pandemic, according to Professor Marylouise McLaws.…