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Google has removed 17,000 Joker-infested apps from the Play store to date.

FBI probes massive fraud

A miscreant managed to swipe $2.3m from a Texas school district after staff inadvertently wired large sums of public money to the crook's bank account.…

CES wiz-bang surveillance tech gives privacy advocates the willies.

Open letter to Chocolate Factory's Sundar Pichai penned by 50 campaign groups

For much of Android's existence, Google has adopted a relatively hands-off approach that lets manufacturers ship units with pre-installed bloatware which, in many cases, cannot be easily removed. This has infuriated users and privacy advocates alike, leading 50 of the latter to pen a blistering open letter to Google and Alphabet chief Sundar Pichai urging him to take action.…

The issue lies in underlying reference software used by multiple cable-modem manufacturers to create device firmware.

Over 25,000 servers globally are vulnerable to the critical Citrix remote code execution vulnerability.

His helicopter costs £550/hour to fly, don't you know

The managing director of a Manchester-based infosec firm has been fined for flying his helicopter into an air traffic control zone without permission – having first launched a rant at tower controllers.…

Looks like the Snake ransomware was created especially for network-wide attacks.

New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services.

In 2019 we saw a rise in the number of targeted malware infections spread via ISPs and service providers. In a last-minute paper presented at VB2019 in London, Kaspersky researcher Denis Legezo discussed the details of a number of such cases. Today we release the recording of Denis' presentation.

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Relax: Nic Cage deepfakes aren't going anywhere. It's only "maliciously misleading" impersonations that are now verboten.

A letter sent to the Google CEO by Privacy International claims bloatware has allowed a privacy and security hole to open almost unnoticed.

If that bill passes, you can say bye-bye to YouTube, says one content creator.

From a Firefox zero-day to a military ban on TikTok - and everything in between. It's the weekly security roundup.

Info Commish has £2m annual legal budget to face off with multinationals

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has kicked £280m in data breach fines against British Airways and US hotel chain Marriott into the long grass.…

Plus: TikTok clocked, Honey in a sticky situation, Arm's PAN mechanisms sidestepped

Roundup  Welcome to another Register security roundup. Here are a few stories that caught our eye.…

It's got a name and logo so it's serious, you guys

Updated  A vulnerability in Broadcom's cable modem firmware has left as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe, and potentially more worldwide, at risk of remote hijackings.…

Cisco patched two high-severity flaws this week, in its Webex and IOS XE Software products.

A Virgin Mobile-branded phone distributed by Assurance Wireless to low-income U.S. citizens has a trojan pre-installed that can download additional malware.

One way to patch the millennium bug was to move it, rather than actually to fix it... are we looking at Y2.02K?