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An old malware trick is being given new life as an infection targeting OS X users, according to researchers. Security firm Malwarebytes said that it had spotted a new crop of OS X 'ransomware' attacks which attempt to extort money out of users. Posing as an FBI piracy notification, the malware...

US drivers are being tracked to an unprecedented extent thanks to a system fattened by federal grant money and spurred by the rush to market private automobile data, according to a report by the ACLU. After analyzing 26,000 pages of documents from police departments spread across the USA, along...

If all goes to plan, the next few weeks will bring a revolution in communication with spacecraft, with two space-based laser communications demonstrations due to take to the skies. The European Space Agency's Alphasat – also the largest telecommunications satellite built in Europe – is due to...

Ruling will allow the Internet company to publicly reveal it challenged a U.S. government order to participate in the National Security Agency's controversial data collection program. Yahoo has won a motion from a secretive court that allows it to publicly reveal its efforts to avoid becoming...

EIGHTEEN third-party researchers reported vulns, says security bod Oracle has pushed out a quarterly patch batch of 89 updates that mean almost all of its enterprise software products need updating for one reason or another. Craig Young, a security researcher at Tripwire, noted that most of...

Google Glass was silently patched by the internet giant last month after a flaw was discovered that could have allowed hackers to capture user data sent from the device, mobile security firm Lookout has revealed. Having worked with Google to find and repair the vulnerability, Lookout said in a...

Microsoft has issued its first bug bounty award to a Google engineer. The software maker created several bug bounties late last month that will run until the end of July. The IE11 preview bug bounty awards up to $11,000 for critical vulnerabilities, and Google engineer Ivan Fratric is the first...

Tumblr launched an updated iOS app on Tuesday that includes a "very important security update" to address an internal flaw. In a company blog post, the Yahoo-owned microblogging site urged users of its iOS app to "please download this update now" and change their passwords on the site as well...

Researchers at Dell have found that hackers are selling off user information at rates of $1,000 per record. The company's SecureWorks subsidiary said that as hackers collect vital information on users, a trade in other data has emerged amongst cybercriminals. According to research from...

US orders release of justification for spying Court tells government to publish legal basis for Prism programme's warrantless monitoring of millions of communications Last Modified: 17 Jul 2013 01:35 A US court has ordered the Obama administration to declassify a 2008 court decision...

Default Microsoft DENIES it gives backdoor access to Outlook encryption - BULLSHIT !! Microsoft has written to the US Attorney General asking him to let the company be more open about what information it hands over to the NSA, and has published a rebuttal of the claims from NSA...

'Anti-business values' behind Firefox cookie-blocking scheme Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of industry group the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), thinks the Mozilla Foundation's policy on third-party cookies is way out of line, and he's taken to the web with a 4,000-word screed...

Security researcher Karsten Nohl says some SIM cards can be compromised because of wrongly configured Java Card software and weak encryption keys. Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there’s still one part of your...

Most enterprise networks are riddled with vulnerable Java installations, according to a new study whose release coincides with the discovery of another 0-day Java flaw. Less than one per cent of organisations are running the latest version of Java, according to a study by security software firm...

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Mozilla has announced that it will release updates to Firefox OS every three months, with security updates scheduled every six weeks. Mozilla's rapid release schedule has been in force for over two years with the outfit's web browser Firefox seeing releases every six weeks...

UK PRIME MINISTER Dave Cameron is getting ready to announce a UK system for accessing adult content, an opt-in one that will probably be worse than no controls whatsoever. We had a whiff of this last week when ISPs were reacting to a letter from the government that asked them to kick in cash...

Hackers have developed a sophisticated StealRat botnet, capable of bypassing firms' advanced anti-spam defences, according to security firm Trend Micro. Trend Micro threat response engineer, Jessa De La Torre reported uncovering the botnet, claiming that it uses advanced techniques to hide the...

It's the moment malware writers worldwide have been waiting ages for: millions of royal-watchers at home and at work will be in front of their computers, hunting for the first pictures of the soon-to-be-born third heir to the throne. The Duchess of Cambridge's labour has started, it was...

6,000 systems shipped already. No pressure there then Several weeks ago, El Reg told you that Andy Monshaw, the long-time head of IBM's Storage Systems Division and more recently the general manager of the PureSystems modular systems business, had left Big Blue. Due to the Independence Day...

Data to and from Google's servers now accounts for a quarter of all US internet traffic, according to the latest network analysis by monitoring firm DeepField, with over 60 per cent of all end users and their devices having some business with the Chocolate Factory every day. "While it is old...