Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant’s Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop,

23andMe users’ godawful password practices were supposedly to blame for the biotech company’s October data disaster, according to its legal reps. Nope, the biotech firm’s

A weak password exposed by infostealer malware is being blamed after a massive outage at Orange Spain disrupted around half of its network’s traffic. The

Comment In some ways, the ransomware landscape in 2023 remained unchanged from the way it looked in previous years. Vendor reports continue to show a

How To Losing your keys, your wallet – or anything else, really – can be a pain, but there is a wide world of trackers

Four Chinese balloons have reportedly floated over the Taiwan Strait, three of them crossing over the island’s land mass and near its Ching-Chuan-Kang air base

Microsoft has disabled a protocol that allowed the installation of Windows apps after finding that miscreants were abusing the mechanism to install malware. The move

One of America’s biggest private freight shippers, Estes Express Lines, has told more than 20,000 customers that criminals stole their personal information. “As you may

French IT services provider Atos has entered talks with Airbus to sell its tech security division in an effort to ease its financial burdens. In

Xerox has officially confirmed that a cyber baddie broke into the systems of its US subsidiary – a week after INC Ransom claimed to have

Privacy Typing with your voice? It should go without saying that you need to take some precautions and avoid spilling your secrets. Martina López 03

Emsisoft has called for a complete ban on ransom payments following another record-breaking year of digital extortion. Ransomware gangs breached the IT networks of at

Security researchers say info-stealing malware can still access victims’ compromised Google accounts even after passwords have been changed. A zero-day exploit of Google account security

The court system of Victoria, Australia, was subject to a suspected ransomware attack in which audiovisual recordings of court hearings may have been accessed. Louise

US prosecutors do not plan to proceed with a second trial of convicted and imprisoned crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), according to a Southern District of

On Call It’s the last Friday of 2023, but because the need for tech support never goes away neither does On Call, The Register’s Friday

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has exposed a previously unknown “feature” in Apple iPhones that allowed malware to bypass hardware-based memory protection. Addressed

Feature The same cybercrime crew broke into two high-profile Las Vegas casino networks over the summer, infected both with ransomware, and stole data belonging to