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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...

'I have 100,000+ users' details ... please don't blacklist me' A Turkish security bod calling himself Ibrahim Balic claims his bug reports to Apple sparked the shutdown of Cupertino's Developer Centre website. The iPhone giant pulled the plug on its online home for app programmers last...

Espionage-focused cyber attacks on businesses have cost over 508,000 US citizens their jobs, according to McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The security firm and non-profit organisation revealed the news in their joint Estimating the Cost of Cybercrime and...

Oz PhD student demos 1.8 Tbps, 800 Km link Asian telcos came out top in a new global study of the prepaid mobile market by KPMG designed to find the best customer experience in-store and over-the-phone, with the UK, US and Australia all placing disappointingly outside the top ten. The In...

A group of researchers led by a Monash Univeristy PhD student has demonstrated an all-optical technique for dealing with nonlinearity – something that considerably boosts the throughput of an optical system. The demonstration is important for two reasons. One is that fibre optic cables used to...

Almost 30% of all net addresses in Belarus are blocked by anti-spam firms because of the amount of junk mail passing through them, says a report. East European nations top the list of countries with the largest percentage of blacklisted net addresses, said security firm Cloudmark. It said...

A software glitch in the New York bicycle-sharing program has led to a breach of customers' names, contact information, credit card numbers and security codes, passwords, and birth dates.[/B] ust before launching, the New York bicycle-sharing program Citi Bike accidentally leaked the private...

Privacy ninjas want anti-NSA encrypted Android backups Privacy experts have urged Google to allow Android users' to encrypt their backups in the wake of the NSA PRISM surveillance flap. The useful "back up my data" option in Google's Android operating system sends a lot of private information...

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There’s a funny catch-22 when it comes to privacy best practices. The very techniques that experts recommend to protect your privacy from government and commercial tracking could be at odds with the antiquated, vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). A number of researchers (including me)...

China produces the most internet attack traffic in the world, although its lead at the top of the charts has been threatened by Indonesia. Data from network firm Akamai in its quarterly State of the Internet report found that in the first quarter of 2013 a total of 34 percent of attacks...

'Higher level of paranoia' suggests EU and US users should change passwords French-based server host OVH has warned that its systems have been penetrated in a multi-stage attack that leaves US and European customers at risk. In an advisory on its forum board, the company warned that an...

Android malware is becoming more sophisticated, with ransomware and attacks that harvest bank details on the increase, according to Bitdefender. A report from the security software firm highlighted that SMS-based malware – which send texts to premium-rate numbers – is still by far the most...

IBM has launched new real-time security management tools, including its QRadar Vulnerability Manager (QVM), which it said combs through potential security flaws and presents them to security officers in a more manageable format. QVM lists results from multiple security scanners alongside the...

Facebook-for-bosses website LinkedIn has fixed a security vulnerability that potentially allowed anyone to swipe users' OAuth login tokens. The flaw came to light after British software developer Richard Mitchell discovered part of the LinkedIn's customer help website handed out the private...

Virus-hunter Symantec says the Android master key vulnerability is being exploited in China, where half-a-dozen apps have showed up with malicious content hiding behind a supposedly-safe crypto key. The simple, straightforward and utterly stupid vulnerability arises because, as Bluebox Security...