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AXE-WAVING BIKER GANG SMASHES into swanky Apple UK store
Pair cuffed after helicopter chase sparked by Cupertino idiot-tax-avoiding raid
Pic Cops have arrested two men following a failed “smash and grab” robbery at Apple’s flagship store on Regent Street, London.…
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Thousands of fingered crims, informants spaffed in web security COCK-UP
UK privacy watchdog pokes server config gaffe
Exclusive An IT blunder splashed photos of suspected criminals and details of Brits who reported them over the internet, The Register can reveal.…
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EU Justice Department stalls India's security clearance
Without a 'data secure destination' cert India's locked out of $30bn euro-sourcing market
India’s outsourcing giants are likely to face more delays in their frustrated bid to tap a potential IT services market worth $30 billion, after a report emerged suggesting the EU still has big data security concerns with the country.…
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Chinese hackers launch PRISM scare campaign
Supposed 'CIA list' with you on it actually contains malware
The Chinese group behind the recently discovered NetTraveler attacks is now using widespread interest in the infamous National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM surveillance program to encourage users to open malicious email attachments, it has emerged.…
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Spear phish your boss to win more security cash
Websense CSO recommends fake attacks on suits to open their wallets
Despite weekly news of successful and nasty online attacks damaging organisations of every stripe, executive types remain blasé about security and don't pay it enough attention, says Jason Clark, chief security officer at Websense, who recommends fighting back by phishing CEOs and board members.…
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Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy
Canada, Oz, NZ, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel send 'Dear Larry' letter
36 Privacy Commissioners from around the world have written to Google to ask, in the polite-but-firm language of international diplomacy, for some details about Google Glass.…
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Remote code execution vuln appears in Puppet
Big trouble in automated clouds
Puppet Labs has blasted out a security advisory about a vulnerability in the popular infrastructure management tool Puppet.…
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Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic
Don't panic, a solution is at hand
Users of the Tor traffic anonymizing service are currently locked out of Facebook after a flood of dodgy traffic triggered an automatic lockdown by the social network's security systems.…
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Apple's screw-up leaves tethered iPhones easily crackable
24 seconds from pickup to pwned
iPhones being used as Wi-Fi hotspots are open to attack because of lax security protocols in the automatic password generation system Apple has in place, according to new research from the University of Erlangen in Germany.…
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Robbing a bank? Carberp toolkit now available for just $5k
Trojan forum sale may mark split in Carberp gang
Cybercrooks are selling the source code for the Carberp banking Trojan toolkit through underground forums - at just $5,000 a pop.…
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Yahoo! joins! rivals! in! PRISM! data! request! admission!
Keep calm and carry on using American tech firms, folks
Yahoo! has become the latest big-hitting American tech firm to reveal exactly how much information it has handed to US spooks.…
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Flash flaw potentially makes every webcam or laptop a PEEPHOLE
But it's a Google problem - Chrome only, insists Adobe
A security flaw thought to have been fixed by Adobe in October 2011 has reappeared thanks to a new vulnerability involving Flash Player browser plug-ins.…
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Number of cops abusing Police National Computer access on the rise
Only a telegram from the Queen can get you off it
The number of Metropolitan Police officers investigated for misusing a controversial police database has more than doubled in the past five years, The Register can reveal.…
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SAP users slack, slow and backward on security
Some systems unpatched since 2005, says researcher
Cross-site scripting, failure to check credentials, directory traversal and SQL injection make up more than three-quarters of vulnerabilities in SAP environments, according to a presentation by ERPScan's Alexander Polyakov to RSAConference Asia Pacific 2013.…
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Internet fraud still stings suckers
Australians twice as gullible as Americans
Australians fell prey to online scams to the tune of around $AUD93.5 million in 2012, and reported nearly 84,000 “scam-related contacts” to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).…
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NSA PRISM snoop-gate: Won't someone think of the children, wails Apple
10,000 things probed, mostly about missing kids, Alzheimer patients, we're told
Apple has joined Facebook and Microsoft in revealing it has received thousands of requests for sensitive user data from US investigators in less than a year.…
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Anon posts Filipino president's phone numbers
Attempts to give Aquino a wake-up call and democracy a kick-start
An Anonymous hacktivist has published what he claims to be three telephone numbers belonging to the Philippine president Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III, including his private mobile number, in a bid to urge voters to confront their leader directly.…
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Panda-peddlers cuffed for chess gambling gambit
More porridge on the menu for Chinese coders after second offence
Two Chinese virus writers jailed in 2007 for spreading the info-stealing Panda (Fujacks) malware have been nabbed again after setting up an illegal online gambling site on their release from prison.…
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'BadNews is malware' says outfit that found it
Google says code harmless but Lookout says code base is evolving
The BadNews malware debate continues to be batted back and forth, with Lookout, the company that first raised the alarm, maintaining that it is malware in the face of Google's assertion last week that it had seen no malicious activity associated with apps carrying the malware.…
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Rally supports Snowden amid claims GCHQ tapped G20 summit
NSA accused of ops on UK soil
Over 900 Hong Kong-ers braved torrential rain on Saturday to march on the US Consulate and HK government in support of infamous PRISM whistle-blower Edward Snowden, as the man himself released yet more classified info on US intelligence operations.…
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Critical Java SE update due Tuesday fixes 40 flaws
And yes, most are remotely exploitable
Thought your Java security woes were behind you? Think again. Oracle is planning to release a Critical Patch Update on Tuesday that affects multiple versions of Java, and it's another doozy.…
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We want to put a KILL SWITCH into your PHONE, say Feds
The only good mobe is a dead mobe
US law enforcement is calling for a mandatory kill switch on all mobiles, enabling the shut down of stolen phones in the hope of rendering them worthless.…
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Badger bloodbath brouhaha brings 'bodge' bumpkin bank burgle bluster
Not a black-and-white case
Activists enraged by Blighty's badger cull claim they have hacked a financial biz used by UK farmers and swiped sensitive personal data.…
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Japan proposes NSA-style agency and new snooping laws
Don't you guys read the news over there?!
In a masterpiece of timing, the Japanese government is considering a new NSA-style agency to monitor internet communications in the country.…
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You dirty RAT: Trend Micro spots new Asia-wide attack
Campaign targeting governments, telcos, and other organisations
Security researchers are warning of yet another advanced, large-scale attack campaign using sophisticated techniques to hide itself from its targets – organisations across Asia.…
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DHS warns of vulns in hospital medical equipment
Has your doctor's anasthesia machine been hacked?
The US Department of Homeland Security has warned hospitals and health clinics that many of the electronic medical devices in use at their facilities may be vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks.…
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Kaspersky slips server security into PC software as attackers get crafty
Want to bag a CEO? Aim for his family
Kaspersky Lab is shifting anti-malware code from its enterprise business down to its consumer security software in an effort to cut down on the effectiveness of zero-day attacks.…
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Big browser builders scramble to fix cross-platform zero-day flaw
Mac users, you're just as vulnerable to phishing scheme
Browser manufacturers will release an update in the next few weeks to block a new type of malware that exploits a cross-platform flaw that allows attackers access to Mac, PC, mobile, and even games console internet users.…
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Microsoft botnet smackdown 'caused collateral damage, failed to kill target'
Zombies just won't stay underground
Microsoft is attracting fresh criticism for its handling of the Citadel botnet takedown, with some security researchers pointing to signs that the zombie network is already rising from the grave again.…
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Eurogeddon? Pah. UK banks are more terrified of hackers - big banker
Threadneedle Street ignores collapsing currency, stares fearfully at monitors
Hacking attacks present a bigger risk to the operation of UK banks than problems caused by the ongoing eurozone crisis, according to a senior Bank of England director.…
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Pre-election phishing spike blasts Iranian Gmail accounts
Google warns DigiNotar hackers are back on the scene
Google has spotted a massive spike in what it believes to be politically-motivated phishing attacks originating from Iran and targeting tens of thousands of web users ahead of Friday’s presidential elections.…
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PRISM snitch claims NSA hacked Chinese targets since 2009
Snowden suddenly looks safer in Hong Kong after revelations
PRISM snitch Edward Snowden now claims to have data which proves the NSA has been hacking hundreds of civilian targets in China and Hong Kong since 2009.…
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Speech-to-text drives motorists to distraction
Will talking to you mean I crash into that car up ahead, Siri?
With texting so clearly dangerous while driving, users and vendors have turned to speech-to-text technologies as a safe alternative, perhaps to no avail.…
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NSA: 'Dozens of attacks' prevented by snooping
Spy chief defends data slurping
The National Security Agency has defended its slurping of phone records and other business data on the grounds the information contained has helped it fight terrorism.…
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Patch Tuesday: And EVERY version of IE needs fixing AGAIN
Adobe, VMware join Microsoft in the stocks this month
June's Black Tuesday patch update from Microsoft has rolled into town with five bulletins, including a solitary critical update that tackles flaws in all supported versions of Internet Explorer.…
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NSA accused of new crimes ... against slideware
They may take our information but they cannot take our REFINED AESTHETICS
The NSA's much-discussed PRISM initiative has attracted criticism galore from political activists, but now it has come up against serious opposition: a ticked-off designer offended by the poor quality of the NSA's slideware.…
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Cisco hints at possible new security standard
Platform Exchange Grid to IETF in 2014
Cisco is hoping that a framework it created for its Identity Services Engine (ISE) could offer the basis for a standard for multivendor security integration.…
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Ticketmaster warns phishers using tickets as bait
Why did you buy tickets to THAT?
Australian online ticketing service Tickemaster has been hit by a phishing raid that has defeated Spam filters.…
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KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal
But yes, Skype's no longer safe ... and keep an eye on GCHQ
Analysis PRISM, the top secret US National Security Agency web communications and user data collection program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden last Friday, and targeted on nine top US web service providers, would seem unlikely to be the total, tyrannical surveillance behemoth reporters first assumed.…
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Yes, maybe we should keep hackers in the clink for YEARS, mulls EU
Watch out black hats, they just might throw away the key
The EU is pushing through a directive calling for harsher criminal penalties against convicted hackers.…
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NSA PRISM deepthroat VANISHES as pole-dance lover cries into keyboard
Blogging bikini babe blubs about 'the ones I never got to bid adieu'
Video Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who blew the lid off the US government's massive internet surveillance project PRISM, has vanished from his Hong Kong hideout.…
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Techies finger Bradley Manning for US secret files database breach
While Ecuador looks to boot Assange out of its embassy
Forensic experts have testified to a military court that they traced breaches of the US government’s secret intelligence database back to Pfc Bradley Manning - who is on trial for leaking classified files to whistleblower website Wikileaks.…
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Obama-Chinese premier summit achieves little on cyber-security
'Nothing to do with the-NSA-program-which-shall-not-be-named'
Analysis A summit meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama last week due to tackle the issue of cyber espionage failed to result in any agreement, perhaps partially because it was overshadowed by controversy over the NSA's controversial PRISM surveillance programme.…
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BIND 9 patched against remote crash vuln
Protection against DoS
Time to get patching, sys admins: ISC (the Internet Systems Consortium) has issued a fix for a BIND 9 denial of service vulnerability.…
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BadNews not so bad, says Google
Android malware not installing SMS-spreading-spamware
Google has broken its six-week silence on the BadNews malware, telling a US security conference that while it was justified in removing infected apps from Google Play, it had no evidence that BadNews was playing a part in the distribution of SMS-borne frauds.…
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Hacker who helped find Steubenville rapists threatened with decade in prison
While the rapists get minimum sentence and rehab
A security consultant who helped uncover evidence of the repeated rape of an Ohio teenager has been raided by the FBI and charged with offenses that could see him spend 10 years in prison.…
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NSA PRISM-gate: Relax, GCHQ spooks 'keep us safe', says Cameron
Whatever they are up to, it's all above board, we're told
British intelligence agencies have broken no laws and are subject to "proper" parliamentary scrutiny, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted today as the NSA PRISM scandal reached Blighty.…
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Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu
Stupid Redmond kicked over our honeypots, wail white hats
Security researchers are complaining about collateral damage from the latest botnet take-down efforts by Microsoft and its partners.…
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US chief spook: Look, we only want to spy on 6.66 BEELLLION of you
Americans assured they are not in the NSA's sights
US spy-boss James Clapper has once again emerged from the shadows to insist that America's global-spanning web surveillance programme is lawful and only targets foreigners.…
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CIA-funded upstart: THE TRUTH about Prism and NSA's web snooping
Mystery of what's inside the spooks' black boxes
Palantir Technologies has denied its Prism software is related to the NSA's controversial and massive PRISM web surveillance system.…
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