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The agency changed its policy to provide more timely and actionable information to state and local election officials in the case of a cybersecurity breach to election infrastructure.

One Irishman and one Dutchman both nicked

Two men have been arrested after Britain’s National Crime Agency and its international pals claimed the takedown of breached credentials-reselling website WeLeakInfo.…

The January 2020 update featured a joint record of 334 patches, matching an identical number released in July 2018.

Google has updated its Smart Lock to let iOS users security-dongle-ize their iPhones.

"People think they're going to put on a cute filter and have puppy dog ears, and not realize that that data's being collected."

Recommendations cover areas including security and privacy while listing alternatives to free online services that slurp your users' data.

New perspective on FBI, Interpol demands for backdoors

Vid  Police Scotland to roll out encryption bypass technology, as one publication reported this week, causing some Register readers to silently mouth: what the hell?…

Good news: There is none. Well, apart from you can at least fully patch the Microsoft blunder

Vid  Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. If you haven't taken mitigation steps by now, you're about to have a bad time.…

The flaws affect a key tool for managing its network platform and switches.

iPhone users can now use Bluetooth to secure their Google accounts.

A hellish mix of features shows the 5ss5c ransomware to be the son of Satan.

We said, "Assume that someone will find out how to do it pretty soon," and that's exactly what happened.

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Two proof-of-concept exploits were publicly released for the major Microsoft crypto-spoofing vulnerability.

New research shows apps that dupe users into being charged excessively with little reward persist on the Android app store.

Researchers have discovered bad authentication bypass vulnerabilities affecting two WordPress plugins which should be patched as soon as possible.

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it's not just dating apps that are doing it...

Google doesn't want to block third-party cookies in Chrome right now. It has promised to make them obsolete later, though. Wait - what?

Fight for the Future is building on its success in pressuring concert promoters to back off of plans to use the technology at festivals.

At VB2019 Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade looked at nation-state actors using threat intelligence for victim deconfliction. Today we publish both his paper and the recording of his presentation.

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