Home Secretary ponders putting WikiLeaker on one-way US flight Julian Assange has all but lost his fight against extradition from Britain to America after the UK Supreme Court said his case "did not raise an arguable point of law."... [...]
Russian biz founder calls it 'an insult' Germany's BSI federal cybersecurity agency has warned the country's citizens not to install Russian-owned Kaspersky antivirus, saying it has "doubts about the reliability of the manufacturer."... [...]
One shows signs of a state-sponsored intrusion, the other potentially not Signs of Russian cyberattacks on Western-owned digital systems have begun to emerge – even as the German arm of Russian oil company Rosneft said it was breached over the weekend.... [...]
Martial law, no booze sales, big queues for trains westwards Pics British infosec pro Vic Harkness traveled to Ukraine to offer humanitarian help – and while taking a break in the western city of Lviv she described to The Register what it's like in the war-torn country.... [...]
Little doubt about US federal court outcome A Ukrainian national alleged to be a member of the REvil ransomware gang has been extradited to the US and charged with multiple criminal offences.... [...]
Little doubt about US federal court outcome A Ukrainian national alleged to be a member of the REvil ransomware gang has been extradited to the US and charged with multiple criminal offences.... [...]
No more than 10 alphanumerics, no special characters – in 2022? A Register reader has raised concerns over UK ISP Virgin Media's password policies after discovering he couldn't set a password longer than 10 characters or one that includes non-alphanumeric characters.... [...]
Beijing-linked Dropbox-using PlugX RAT crew not sitting still, either Beijing's spies compromised government computer networks in six US states by exploiting, among other flaws, a vulnerability in a cattle-counting system, according to Mandiant.... [...]
Artist formerly known as FireEye to boost security for Alphabet's cloudy arm Google is buying preeminent threat intel firm Mandiant for $5.4bn, the two companies announced this morning.... [...]
190GB worth of internal files include 'some source codes relating to the operation of Galaxy devices' but Chaebol says customer data is safe Updated Samsung has acknowledged its data was stolen after the Lapsus$ extortion gang deposited what appears to be 190GB of the company's stolen internal files online …
190GB worth of internal files include 'some source codes relating to the operation of Galaxy devices' Updated Samsung has acknowledged its data was stolen after the Lapsus$ extortion gang deposited what appears to nearly 200GB of the mega-corp's stolen internal files online.... [...]
70k staff email addresses and NTLM password hashes also dumped online An Nvidia code-signing certificate was among the mountain of files stolen and leaked online by criminals who ransacked the GPU giant's internal systems.... [...]
70k staff email addresses and NTLM password hashes also dumped online The private key of an Nvidia code-signing certificate was among the mountain of files stolen and leaked online by criminals who ransacked the GPU giant's internal systems.... [...]
Back to the future with short wave radio, plus Russia drop internet Iron Curtain Russia has reportedly blocked access to Western media outlets including the BBC to netizens within its borders, as suspicions rise that the country has begun implementing a "splinternet" plan to seal itself off from the …
This isn't the artificial intelligence we were promised Without a critical update, Amazon Alexa devices could wake themselves up and start executing audio commands issued by a remote attacker, according to infosec researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London.... [...]
Potential mass internet surveillance idea dropped after ISP pushback, uncertainty about final measures linger While the world watches Ukraine, the British government has quietly dropped a requirement for mass surveillance of UK internet users by their service providers.... [...]
Verification hit and miss so far Ukrainian news website Ukrainska Pravda says the nation's Centre for Defence Strategies think tank has obtained the personal details of 120,000 Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine. The publication has now shared this data freely on its website.... [...]
While Apple halts all sales in Russia, Visa and Mastercard block banks The disk-wiping malware that tore through at least hundreds of Ukrainian Windows systems at the start of Russia's occupation wasn't alone. Slovakian infosec firm ESET has found a second similar strain in Ukraine.... [...]
What looks like Jabber chat app files published after pro-Russia pledge Activists have reportedly leaked the contents of internal chats from the Russia-affiliated Conti ransomware gang as the Ukraine war continues.... [...]
While Moscow tells its operators: Treat any infrastructure outage as a 'computer attack' As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the latter's government is reportedly seeking cybersecurity volunteers to help defend itself. Meanwhile, Russia's CERT has warned critical infrastructure operators that any strange outages should be treated as "a …
Cyberup campaign hasn't gone away, you know Infosec researcher Rob Dyke, best known to Reg readers for fending off legal threats from not-for-profit open-source foundation Apperta after finding a data breach, has visited Parliament to demand Computer Misuse Act reform.... [...]
Digital skirmishes continue as tension mounts in Eastern Europe The EU has sent a cyber response team to Ukraine as rumours of a planned Russian invasion reach fever pitch. Meanwhile, IBM's infosec division says the UK was one of the most targeted countries in Europe for cyberattacks last year …
Open source + public key generation = no alerts, says infosec startup An infosec startup says it has built an Apple Airtag clone that bypasses anti-stalking protection features while running on Apple's Find My protocol.... [...]
Good luck finding public support for that one Lawyers for EncroChat encrypted phone users have begged the EU to halt court cases using evidence from the compromised mobile network, saying evidence disclosure breaches the political bloc's laws.... [...]
Or you could think of them as a superuser password reset function The snap-confine tool in the Linux world's Snap software packaging system can be potentially exploited by ordinary users to gain root powers, says Qualys.... [...]