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LASER STRIKES against US planes on the rise

Zap attacks now at 'epidemic' levels

Security 5 Oct 23:49

Pilfering sysadmin gets four years and $2.3m fine for kit theft

FBI nails Verizon engineer over Cisco scam

Security 5 Oct 16:39

Feds charge US firm with smuggling illegal military tech to Russia

'Traffic light' firm actually supplied KGB-successor with hi-tech gear, say officials

Security 5 Oct 16:28

Microsoft beefs up cloud login security in PhoneFactor gobble

Is that a token in your pocket or are you pleased to see us?

Security 5 Oct 11:46

Microsoft puts Patch Tuesday on a diet, fixes Office flaw

Just one critical vuln in light update

Security 5 Oct 10:39

Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission

Researchers SICK OF SPAM submit ridiculous piece to Hakin9

Security 5 Oct 09:31

Tablet security study finds BlackBerry still good for something

iPad,Galaxy Tab and PlayBook face off in BYOD probe

Security 5 Oct 08:58

GCHQ boss: Crypto-genius Turing brought tech to British spooks

Tributes paid to 'unique' code-breaking boffin

Security 5 Oct 08:19

Security mess sends Kiwi auction site titsup in two days

Holes allowed auction price resets, exposed passwords

Security 5 Oct 06:45

Europe UNDER ATTACK in simulated cyber security test

This is a drill. No networks will be harmed in this exercise

Security 4 Oct 15:12

Chinese Nitol botnet host back up after Microsoft settles lawsuit

Owner agrees to chuck nasties down the sinkhole

Security 4 Oct 12:42

Iran linked to al-Qaeda's web jihadi crew by old-school phone line

Exclusive X.25 records reveal possible base for terror cheerleaders

Security 4 Oct 11:44

UK.gov to spunk £2m a year policing global cyber-security

BCC New centre to advise countries on beefing up defences

Security 4 Oct 08:00

Global action takes down tech support scam

Canadian, Australian and US authorities claim victory over crims

Security 4 Oct 04:11

Assange movie portrays leaker as teen rebel

Review Telemovie says hacker martyr's infant escape from cult sparked activism

Security 4 Oct 00:53

NIST crowns next-gen hash algorithm Keccak as official SHA-3

After six years, we have a winner

Security 3 Oct 12:44

Zombie-animating malnets increase 200% in just 6 months

Cybercrooks beef up botnet-powering badness

Security 3 Oct 08:18

Hackers leak 120,000 student records in raid on world's top unis

We don't need no education - except in web programming

Security 2 Oct 16:02

Pirate Bay site sinks, Swedish police raid its ISP

Oddly, the two events aren't related

Security 2 Oct 00:42

Hackers break onto White House military network

Spear phish hits 'unclassified' presidential system

Security 1 Oct 20:14

'Replace crypto-couple Alice and Bob with Sita and Rama'

Even their jobs are being offshored

Security 1 Oct 08:22

Bitcoin Foundation vows to clean up currency's bad rep

'Bitcoin don't get no respect!'

Security 29 Sep 00:49

World's power-grid cyber breach traced to notorious Chinese crew

Telvent pulls plug on networks after shock raid

Security 28 Sep 16:28

Zombies are attacking America – researchers

Banking sector DDoSers 'used botnets', say security boffins

Security 28 Sep 15:59

Adobe scrambles to revoke stolen cert

Malware signed as Adobe software

Security 27 Sep 22:51

Got a data security policy? Chances are your IT bods don't know it

Most data-blurt blunders are internal cockups, not hacks

Security 27 Sep 09:42

Researcher offers quick fix for Samsung remote wipe vuln

App blocks malicious URIs on affected phones

Security 26 Sep 18:15

Symantec source code leak becomes torrent

'In the name of god! You are killing our CPUs'

Security 26 Sep 16:27

Vandals break into congressman's office, install Linux on PCs

Grimm: 'Very ignorant' attack

Security 26 Sep 15:18

SourceForge mirror cracked: Served admin tool with gaping backdoor

Evil Korean load befouls 400 hapless punters

Security 26 Sep 12:17

If you see 'URGENT tax rebate download' in an inbox, kill it with fire

Top spear-phishing email phrases revealed

Security 26 Sep 07:03

New critical Java flaw claimed

Gowdiak strikes again with tale of sandbox bypass

Security 26 Sep 03:08

NYPD: iPhone thefts rising ten times rate of other crimes

'Operation ID' helps take a bite out of smartphone crime

Security 26 Sep 00:20

FTC settles spying charges on rent-to-own computers

Software recorded 'intimate activities at home'

Security 26 Sep 00:19

IEEE slips up, leaks logins

FTP server logs unsecured, leaving Apple, Google, IBM and Oracle details exposed

Security 25 Sep 23:37

SHA-3 hash finalist Schneier calls for halt in crypto contest

'No award' in algorithm bake-off would be best, says Bruce

Security 25 Sep 18:02

White House 'wants Feds to draw up cyber-defences' for power plants

Crack council to oversee water and electricity supplies

Security 25 Sep 16:01

A single web link will WIPE Samsung Android smartphones

Magic number in URL triggers factory reset

Security 25 Sep 15:36

Researchers reveal NFC subway bonk-nonpayment scheme

Using Android phones to dodge fares

Security 24 Sep 22:49

Superworm Crisis eats Macs, VMware and - shock - Windows

Don't panic, don't panic - OK, panic! Panic!

Security 22 Aug 14:33

Let's talk about the RBS IT cock-up

Live chat Reg readers join an after-hours chat

Security 20 Jul 12:17

Virus writers have girlfriends - official

And some don't even need inflating

Security 15 Apr 2005, 16:27

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