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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en">
3 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:feed/theregister.com/security/</id>
4 <title>The Register - Security</title>
5 <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.theregister.com/security/headlines.atom"/>
6 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.theregister.com/security/"/>
7 <rights>Copyright © 2020, Situation Publishing</rights>
8 <author>
9 <name>Team Register</name>
10 <email>webmaster@theregister.co.uk</email>
11 <uri>https://www.theregister.com/odds/about/contact/</uri>
12 </author>
13 <icon>https://www.theregister.com/Design/graphics/icons/favicon.png</icon>
14 <subtitle>Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis</subtitle>
15 <logo>https://www.theregister.com/Design/graphics/Reg_default/The_Register_r.png</logo>
16 <updated>2020-10-30T18:30:11Z</updated>
17 <entry>
18 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211778</id>
19 <updated>2020-10-30T18:30:11Z</updated>
20 <author>
21 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
22 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
23 </author>
24 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/zebrocy_warning_us_cisa/"/>
25 <title type="html">The Russians are at it again: Zebrocy backdoor malware is evolving, Uncle Sam warns close to eve of presidential election</title>
26 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Yep, it's the artists occasionally known as APT28</h4> <p>The US government, in full pre-presidential election high alert, has issued a warning about an evolved strain of backdoor malware from a Russian offensive cyber unit.…</p></summary>
27 </entry>
28 <entry>
29 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211775</id>
30 <updated>2020-10-30T14:08:09Z</updated>
31 <author>
32 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
33 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
34 </author>
35 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/marriott_starwood_hack_fine_just_18_4bn/"/>
36 <title type="html">Marriott fined £0.05 for each of the 339 million hotel guests whose data crooks were stealing for four years</title>
37 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>UK watchdog's mooted £99m penalty comes in at just £18.4m</h4> <p>Your name, address, phone number, email address, passport number, date of birth, and sex are worth just £0.05 in the eyes of the UK Information Commissioner's Office, which has fined Marriott £18.4m after 339 million people's data was stolen from the hotel chain.…</p></summary>
38 </entry>
39 <entry>
40 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211755</id>
41 <updated>2020-10-30T13:00:12Z</updated>
42 <author>
43 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
44 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
45 </author>
46 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/companies_house_xss_silliness/"/>
47 <title type="html">Why, yes, you can register an XSS attack as a UK company name. How do we know that? Someone actually did it</title>
48 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>And the 'acceptable company name' charset is hardcoded... in legislation</h4> <p>Companies House has blocked someone who registered a new biz with a name that contained the right characters arranged in the right order to trigger a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against users of the service's API.…</p></summary>
49 </entry>
50 <entry>
51 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211758</id>
52 <updated>2020-10-30T10:00:07Z</updated>
53 <author>
54 <name>Thomas Claburn</name>
55 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn</uri>
56 </author>
57 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/cyberstart_hacking_challenge/"/>
58 <title type="html">On Friday the US starts Ender's hacking game: All local teens can compete for scholarships in cybersecurity</title>
59 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>CyberStart America challenge aims to find talented network defenders</h4> <p>Starting on Friday, US high school students can register to participate in CyberStart America, an online puzzle-solving game designed to identify cybersecurity talent and qualify participants for an opportunity to compete in the National Cyber Scholarship Competition next year.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
60 </entry>
61 <entry>
62 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211673</id>
63 <updated>2020-10-30T07:00:05Z</updated>
64 <author>
65 <name>John E Dunn</name>
66 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=John%20E%20Dunn</uri>
67 </author>
68 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/plan_a_password_security_project/"/>
69 <title type="html">How to plan a password security project</title>
70 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>First, you need to prove to the budget holder that you’ve got a problem</h4> <p><strong>Sponsored</strong> Weak password security is a torment that afflicts networks in so many ways. On the user side is the certainty of hopeless and reused passwords, while on the attacker’s side are a gamut of techniques for targeting them such as phishing, credential stuffing, brute forcing, and spotting backdoors to hidden applications such as RDP, SSH, and shadow IT.…</p></summary>
71 </entry>
72 <entry>
73 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211761</id>
74 <updated>2020-10-29T22:35:20Z</updated>
75 <author>
76 <name>Iain Thomson</name>
77 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson</uri>
78 </author>
79 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/weblogic_exploit_attack/"/>
80 <title type="html">If you haven't patched WebLogic server console flaws in the last eight days 'assume it has been compromised'</title>
81 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Stark warning from SANS' Johannes Ullrich - RCE's gonna GET 'ya</h4> <p>Last week Oracle released one of its mammoth quarterly patch dumps - with <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/21/oracle_october_patches/">402 fixes</a>. Well, it turns out that if you missed one and you're running WebLogic 10.3.6.0.0, 12.1.3.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.1.0.0, you've probably already been tagged by hackers.…</p></summary>
82 </entry>
83 <entry>
84 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211756</id>
85 <updated>2020-10-29T20:58:06Z</updated>
86 <author>
87 <name>Iain Thomson</name>
88 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson</uri>
89 </author>
90 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/wisconsin_political_phishing/"/>
91 <title type="html">Days before the US election, phishers net $2.3m from Wisconsin Republicans</title>
92 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Big money in American politics proves chum in the water for online sharks</h4> <p>As America counts down to the November 3 elections, things are tense for political campaigns. There's a lot of money flying around and the online criminals have sensed blood in the water.…</p></summary>
93 </entry>
94 <entry>
95 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211752</id>
96 <updated>2020-10-29T20:00:09Z</updated>
97 <author>
98 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
99 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
100 </author>
101 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/facebook_you_owe_us_high_court_campaign/"/>
102 <title type="html">Google Safari Workaround case inspires campaign to sue Facebook in UK's High Court over Cambridge Analytica app</title>
103 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>'Facebook You Owe Us' wants to run a not-quite-class-action-style lawsuit</h4> <p>A campaign to sue Facebook over lax privacy policies that allowed Cambridge Analytica to slurp almost a million people's personal data from the social networking website hopes to become a representative action in the High Court, its instigators said today.…</p></summary>
104 </entry>
105 <entry>
106 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211747</id>
107 <updated>2020-10-29T18:15:07Z</updated>
108 <author>
109 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
110 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
111 </author>
112 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/ryuk_ransomware_us_hospitals_warning/"/>
113 <title type="html">Ryuk this for a game of soldiers: Ransomware-flingers actively targeting hospitals in the US, cyber agencies warn</title>
114 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>And infosec firms say it's only got worse over this year</h4> <p>Ryuk ransomware is being aggressively deployed to target US healthcare institutions, government cyber organisations in the US have warned.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
115 </entry>
116 <entry>
117 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211686</id>
118 <updated>2020-10-29T17:00:05Z</updated>
119 <author>
120 <name>David Gordon</name>
121 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=David%20Gordon</uri>
122 </author>
123 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/how_i_would_attack_you_webcast/"/>
124 <title type="html">Looking for good news on COVID-19? That’s exactly what cyber attackers want you to do</title>
125 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Let us show you how to outsmart them</h4> <p><strong>Webcast</strong> If you think cybercriminals and hackers are without a shred of empathy or human understanding, you’d be wrong.…</p></summary>
126 </entry>
127 <entry>
128 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211742</id>
129 <updated>2020-10-29T13:41:49Z</updated>
130 <author>
131 <name>Matthew Hughes</name>
132 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Hughes</uri>
133 </author>
134 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/motorola_lenovo_thinkshield_for_mobile/"/>
135 <title type="html">Lenovo to slap ThinkShield security standard for laptop line-up on its Motorola mobiles</title>
136 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Scheme to roll out across firm's device portfolio in coming months</h4> <p>Motorola will push <a target="_blank" href="https://blog.motorola.com/2020/10/28/motorola-introduces-thinkshield-for-mobile-focused-on-corporate-customers/">ThinkShield</a> onto the business end of its smartphone portfolio, as an extension of the security and management programme on Lenovo's laptop and desktop line.…</p></summary>
137 </entry>
138 <entry>
139 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211696</id>
140 <updated>2020-10-29T09:30:10Z</updated>
141 <author>
142 <name>Tim Anderson</name>
143 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Tim%20Anderson</uri>
144 </author>
145 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/cyber_privacy_april_falcon_doss_interview/"/>
146 <title type="html">Can we stop megacorps from using and abusing our data? That ship has sailed, ex-NSA lawyer argues in new book</title>
147 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Companies are a bigger threat than governments – because they're less regulated</h4> <p><strong>Interview</strong> <i>Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care</i> is the title of a new book from April Falcon Doss, formerly associate general counsel for intelligence law at the US National Security Agency. Doss spoke to <i>The Register</i> about her concerns with pervasive data collection and its potential for harm.…</p></summary>
148 </entry>
149 <entry>
150 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211734</id>
151 <updated>2020-10-29T07:02:14Z</updated>
152 <author>
153 <name>Simon Sharwood</name>
154 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood</uri>
155 </author>
156 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/atos_syntel_trizetto_verdict/"/>
157 <title type="html">French services outfit Atos told to pay $855m in trade secret pinching case</title>
158 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Challenges jury verdict immediately and offers to pay one percent of damages</h4> <p>French services outfit Atos has been ordered to pay $855m for pinching a rival’s trade secrets.…</p></summary>
159 </entry>
160 <entry>
161 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211598</id>
162 <updated>2020-10-29T06:01:11Z</updated>
163 <author>
164 <name>David Gordon</name>
165 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=David%20Gordon</uri>
166 </author>
167 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/29/viruses_never_switch_off/"/>
168 <title type="html">Malware never switches off – so why should your security supplier?</title>
169 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Kaspersky’s License Management Portal helps MSPs and resellers get tech to users fast</h4> <p><strong>Promo</strong> Cyber-criminals never sleep, so neither should your customers’ security teams or your own managed service operations.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
170 </entry>
171 <entry>
172 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211730</id>
173 <updated>2020-10-28T23:44:52Z</updated>
174 <author>
175 <name>Thomas Claburn</name>
176 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Thomas%20Claburn</uri>
177 </author>
178 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/nsa_backdoor_wyden/"/>
179 <title type="html">NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly</title>
180 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Senator Wyden puts surveillance nerve-center on blast</h4> <p>It's said the NSA drew up a report on what it learned after a foreign government exploited a weak encryption scheme, championed by the US spying agency, in Juniper firewall software.…</p></summary>
181 </entry>
182 <entry>
183 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211720</id>
184 <updated>2020-10-28T17:31:59Z</updated>
185 <author>
186 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
187 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
188 </author>
189 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/simon_finch_official_secrets_passwords_trial/"/>
190 <title type="html">Software engineer leaked UK missile system secrets and refused to hand cops his passwords, Old Bailey told</title>
191 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Revelations triggered by previous police abuse, court hears</h4> <p>A former BAE Systems software engineer who allegedly leaked top-secret details about a frontline missile system also ignored orders from police to hand over passwords to his electronic devices, a court has heard.…</p></summary>
192 </entry>
193 <entry>
194 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211645</id>
195 <updated>2020-10-28T14:00:11Z</updated>
196 <author>
197 <name>Robin Birtstone</name>
198 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Robin%20Birtstone</uri>
199 </author>
200 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/three_steps_data_centric_security/"/>
201 <title type="html">Three steps to data-centric security: Discovery, protection, and control</title>
202 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>It's 2020 and the enemy isn't at the gate anymore. It's in your network, probing your switches and servers</h4> <p><strong>Sponsored</strong> It's 2020 and the enemy isn't at the gate anymore. It's in your network, probing your switches and servers. That makes the gate irrelevant. So what do you do now?…</p></summary>
203 </entry>
204 <entry>
205 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211714</id>
206 <updated>2020-10-28T13:29:54Z</updated>
207 <author>
208 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
209 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
210 </author>
211 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/experian_ico_marketing_data_investigation/"/>
212 <title type="html">Experian vows to drag UK's Information Commissioner's Office to court after being told off for data-slurping practices</title>
213 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Credit reference agency recycled personal details for marketing purposes, says regulator</h4> <p>Experian has been rapped over the knuckles by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it discovered the credit reference agency was trading "millions" of people's data for marketing purposes.…</p></summary>
214 </entry>
215 <entry>
216 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211705</id>
217 <updated>2020-10-28T02:29:06Z</updated>
218 <author>
219 <name>Chris Williams</name>
220 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Chris%20Williams</uri>
221 </author>
222 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/trump_website_hacked/"/>
223 <title type="html">Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'</title>
224 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Well, that narrows down the list of suspects to just a few billion people</h4> <p>Donald Trump's presidential campaign website was briefly hacked and defaced tonight.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
225 </entry>
226 <entry>
227 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211704</id>
228 <updated>2020-10-28T01:58:10Z</updated>
229 <author>
230 <name>Simon Sharwood</name>
231 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood</uri>
232 </author>
233 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/28/india_and_usa_to_share/"/>
234 <title type="html">India and USA to share high-quality satellite imagery and more under new pact</title>
235 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>To get a better view of regional hotspots in case things get kinetic</h4> <p>The USA and India have struck a new defence pact that will see the two nations share high-quality spatial data and satellite images.…</p></summary>
236 </entry>
237 <entry>
238 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211697</id>
239 <updated>2020-10-27T20:09:00Z</updated>
240 <author>
241 <name>Kieren McCarthy</name>
242 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Kieren%20McCarthy</uri>
243 </author>
244 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/27/zoom_endtoend_encryption/"/>
245 <title type="html">Zoom finally adds end-to-end encryption for all, for free – though there are caveats</title>
246 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Perhaps we can talk about extra security and compromises honestly</h4> <p>Zoom has finally added end-to-end encryption to its video conferencing service at no additional cost for all users, whether they are paying subscribers or not.…</p></summary>
247 </entry>
248 <entry>
249 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211692</id>
250 <updated>2020-10-27T15:41:08Z</updated>
251 <author>
252 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
253 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
254 </author>
255 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/27/christopher_taylor_extradition_hearing/"/>
256 <title type="html">Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US</title>
257 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>'I've seen programmes on American prisons' says wife</h4> <p>A Briton is reportedly fighting extradition to the United States after deploying webcam malware onto hundreds of women's laptops so he could spy on them undressing and having sex.…</p></summary>
258 </entry>
259 <entry>
260 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211669</id>
261 <updated>2020-10-27T10:10:12Z</updated>
262 <author>
263 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
264 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
265 </author>
266 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/27/stratospheric_platforms_5g_hydrogen_drone/"/>
267 <title type="html">Brit startup would like to beam 5G connectivity down at you from hydrogen-fuelled drones</title>
268 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>And Deutsche Telekom's happy with this airborne base station plan</h4> <p>A British startup is hoping to strap 5G antennas to liquid-hydrogen-powered high-altitude pseudo-satellites in the hope of replacing mobile base stations on the ground.…</p></summary>
269 </entry>
270 <entry>
271 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211656</id>
272 <updated>2020-10-27T06:02:09Z</updated>
273 <author>
274 <name>Iain Thomson</name>
275 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson</uri>
276 </author>
277 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/27/in_brief_security/"/>
278 <title type="html">Santander downplays 'hack' of PagoFX cash transfer biz, says nothing to worry about</title>
279 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Plus: US govt sanctions Russia for refinery-bothering malware</h4> <p><strong>In brief</strong> Spanish financial giant Santander has downplayed claims its international money transfer startup PagoFX was compromised.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
280 </entry>
281 <entry>
282 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211665</id>
283 <updated>2020-10-26T16:50:10Z</updated>
284 <author>
285 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
286 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
287 </author>
288 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/26/finland_psychotherapy_clinic_ransom_attack/"/>
289 <title type="html">Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats</title>
290 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website</h4> <p>A Finnish psychotherapy centre was hit by hackers who stole therapy session notes – before threatening patients of the clinic with ransom demands amid selective dark web leaks of stolen material.…</p></summary>
291 </entry>
292 <entry>
293 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211649</id>
294 <updated>2020-10-26T14:05:12Z</updated>
295 <author>
296 <name>Richard Speed</name>
297 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Richard%20Speed</uri>
298 </author>
299 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/26/jisc_research/"/>
300 <title type="html">Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users</title>
301 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Cloud-first but no 'resilient internet connection'? Oh dear</h4> <p>New <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/it-infrastructure-reviews-key-findings">research</a> into the IT infrastructure of the UK's higher education sectors does not make happy reading for those wishing to cure all ills with the sticking plaster of "digital".…</p></summary>
302 </entry>
303 <entry>
304 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211650</id>
305 <updated>2020-10-24T07:14:13Z</updated>
306 <author>
307 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
308 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
309 </author>
310 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/24/browser_address_spoofing/"/>
311 <title type="html">JavaScript-based address bar spoofing vulns patched in Safari, Yandex, Opera</title>
312 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Are you where you think you are, or are you where I want you to think you are?</h4> <p>Rapid7 found Apple’s Safari browser, as well as the Opera Mini and Yandex browsers, were vulnerable to JavaScript-based address bar spoofing.…</p></summary>
313 </entry>
314 <entry>
315 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211646</id>
316 <updated>2020-10-23T17:58:04Z</updated>
317 <author>
318 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
319 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
320 </author>
321 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/palo_alto_orca_lawsuit/"/>
322 <title type="html">Palo Alto Networks threatens to sue security startup for comparison review, says it breaks software EULA</title>
323 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>'I'm not going to be bullied by someone with deeper pockets' vows Orca boss</h4> <p>Palo Alto Networks has threatened a startup with legal action after the smaller biz published a comparison review of one of its products.…</p></summary>
324 </entry>
325 <entry>
326 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211638</id>
327 <updated>2020-10-23T16:20:13Z</updated>
328 <author>
329 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
330 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
331 </author>
332 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/eu_sanctions_gru_russian_hackers/"/>
333 <title type="html">EU slaps extra sanctions on Russian spy chief and APT28 malware dev over 2015 Bundestag hack</title>
334 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Better late than never, eh</h4> <p>The European Union has imposed sanctions on a Russian military malware developer and the commander of Russia’s MI6 equivalent, a mere five years after the two <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/01/bundestag_hack_origins_still_a_mystery/">targeted Germany's parliament with a cyberattack</a>.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
335 </entry>
336 <entry>
337 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211632</id>
338 <updated>2020-10-23T06:34:05Z</updated>
339 <author>
340 <name>Simon Sharwood</name>
341 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood</uri>
342 </author>
343 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/edward_snowden_russian_permanent_residency/"/>
344 <title type="html">Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more</title>
345 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Immigration reforms allowing more skilled workers to stay seem to have resulted in permanent residency</h4> <p>Russia has apparently given super-leaker and former NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden <i>de facto</i> permanent residence.…</p></summary>
346 </entry>
347 <entry>
348 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211624</id>
349 <updated>2020-10-23T05:36:16Z</updated>
350 <author>
351 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
352 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
353 </author>
354 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/trump_twitter_account_no_mfa/"/>
355 <title type="html">After Dutch bloke claims he hacked Trump's Twitter by guessing password, web biz says there's 'no evidence'</title>
356 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>It's saying something when it's easy to believe the US President's passphrase was maga2020!</h4> <p>Donald Trump's Twitter password was easily guessed, and he still isn't using multi-factor authentication, claims a Dutch hacker who on Thursday bragged he broke into the President's account last week. Twitter says it has "no evidence" this claim is true.…</p></summary>
357 </entry>
358 <entry>
359 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211629</id>
360 <updated>2020-10-23T04:27:04Z</updated>
361 <author>
362 <name>Simon Sharwood</name>
363 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood</uri>
364 </author>
365 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/china_app_privacy_review/"/>
366 <title type="html">China reveals audit of 320,000 local apps, with 34 booted from app stores and hundreds of devs warned they could suffer same fate</title>
367 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Privacy crackdown in the land of ubiquitous surveillance, where 5G now blankets all cities</h4> <p>Through most of 2020 bans on Chinese apps have meant geopolitical strife, but China yesterday revealed it has started banning some of its own apps.…</p></summary>
368 </entry>
369 <entry>
370 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211630</id>
371 <updated>2020-10-23T02:58:07Z</updated>
372 <author>
373 <name>Simon Sharwood</name>
374 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood</uri>
375 </author>
376 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/23/doj_decides_60m_is_enough/"/>
377 <title type="html">After first floating $20bn penalty, DoJ suggests $60m fine for UMC's theft of Micron’s DRAM secrets</title>
378 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Taiwanese chipmaker promises ‘substantial assistance’ in ongoing China IP theft action</h4> <p>Taiwanese chip-maker United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will plead guilty to theft of trade secrets from Micron Technologies and pay a $60m fine to the USA.…</p></summary>
379 </entry>
380 <entry>
381 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211627</id>
382 <updated>2020-10-22T23:39:54Z</updated>
383 <author>
384 <name>Iain Thomson</name>
385 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson</uri>
386 </author>
387 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/22/us_russian_hacking/"/>
388 <title type="html">Is it Iran or Russia's hackers we need to worry about? The Russians, definitely the Russians, says US intelligence</title>
389 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Energetic Bear team caught breaking into govt systems, no harm done to Nov 3 elections</h4> <p>The FBI and the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday issued a joint warning that a Kremlin hacking crew is probing or breaking into systems belonging to the US government and aviation industry.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
390 </entry>
391 <entry>
392 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211618</id>
393 <updated>2020-10-22T14:37:05Z</updated>
394 <author>
395 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
396 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
397 </author>
398 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/22/sopra_steria_ryuk_ransomware_reports/"/>
399 <title type="html">French IT outsourcer Sopra Steria hit by 'cyberattack', Ryuk ransomware suspected</title>
400 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>You know, the firm that runs half of NHS Business Services</h4> <p>French-headquartered IT outsourcer Sopra Steria has been struck by a “cyberattack,” reportedly linked to the Ryuk ransomware gang.…</p></summary>
401 </entry>
402 <entry>
403 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211612</id>
404 <updated>2020-10-22T11:44:20Z</updated>
405 <author>
406 <name>Matthew Hughes</name>
407 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Matthew%20Hughes</uri>
408 </author>
409 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/22/samsung_to_introduce_automatic_call/"/>
410 <title type="html">Samsung to introduce automatic call blocking on Android 11-capable flagships</title>
411 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Yeah I've heard you were in a car accident that wasn't your fault. Is that right? *Click*</h4> <p>Samsung phones will soon come with automatic spam call blocking. The feature, which is part of Samsung Smart Call, will debut on the Galaxy Note20 and will roll out to all new devices released after 2020.…</p></summary>
412 </entry>
413 <entry>
414 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211606</id>
415 <updated>2020-10-22T02:03:18Z</updated>
416 <author>
417 <name>Chris Williams</name>
418 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Chris%20Williams</uri>
419 </author>
420 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/22/iran_russia_emails/"/>
421 <title type="html">Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence</title>
422 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>No, say it ain't so, maga_christ9000@post.ir</h4> <p><strong>Updated</strong> Menacing emails to Democratic voters, telling them to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming US elections or else, were sent by Iran, US intelligence claimed on Wednesday night.…</p></summary>
423 </entry>
424 <entry>
425 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211602</id>
426 <updated>2020-10-21T23:34:43Z</updated>
427 <author>
428 <name>Kieren McCarthy</name>
429 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Kieren%20McCarthy</uri>
430 </author>
431 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/21/us_phone_cracking/"/>
432 <title type="html">Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done</title>
433 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Massive public records request reveals scale of warrantless surveillance</h4> <p>Never mind the Feds. American police forces routinely "circumvent most security features" in smartphones to extract mountains of personal information, according to a report that details the massive, ubiquitous cracking of devices by cops.…</p></summary>
434 </entry>
435 <entry>
436 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211587</id>
437 <updated>2020-10-21T20:25:51Z</updated>
438 <author>
439 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
440 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
441 </author>
442 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/21/akamai_retail_security_report/"/>
443 <title type="html">Coronavirus outbreak triggered a rush of online attacks against retail loyalty schemes, Akamai reckons</title>
444 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Digital souks are sitting ducks for identity fraudsters</h4> <p>Hackers are breaking into online loyalty card accounts using stolen credentials or easily obtainable information, and then not only ransacking the profiles' balances but also harvesting victims' personal data for subsequent identity theft, Akamai has warned.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
445 </entry>
446 <entry>
447 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211596</id>
448 <updated>2020-10-21T18:32:31Z</updated>
449 <author>
450 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
451 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
452 </author>
453 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/21/oracle_october_patches/"/>
454 <title type="html">How much does Oracle love you? Thiiiis much: Latest patch bundle has 402 fixes</title>
455 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>How many times do you want to read the CVSS rating 9.8 today?</h4> <p>Oracle has released its final quarterly batch of patches for the year for security flaws in its products. The total this time? 402 fixes, the bulk of which are rated critical in terms of severity.…</p></summary>
456 </entry>
457 <entry>
458 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211402</id>
459 <updated>2020-10-21T06:00:14Z</updated>
460 <author>
461 <name>Robin Birtstone</name>
462 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Robin%20Birtstone</uri>
463 </author>
464 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/21/how_cybercriminals_play_the_domain/"/>
465 <title type="html">How cybercriminals play the domain game</title>
466 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>And why AI tools will make you less vulnerable</h4> <p><strong>Sponsored</strong> Conventional email security tools are losing the battle against phishing attacks. The cause? Instead of registering a handful of domains from which to conduct their phishing campaigns, many cybercriminals now buy them by the thousand. This approach makes it harder for traditional email protection tools to spot phishing emails among the ‘noise’. Thanks to bulk domain registration services, malicious spammers can tip the balance in their favour through sheer volume.…</p></summary>
467 </entry>
468 <entry>
469 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211575</id>
470 <updated>2020-10-21T02:08:46Z</updated>
471 <author>
472 <name>Simon Sharwood</name>
473 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Simon%20Sharwood</uri>
474 </author>
475 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/21/opendev_gerrit_attack/"/>
476 <title type="html">OpenStack haven OpenDev yanks Gerrit code review tool after admin account compromised for two weeks</title>
477 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Source warehouse asks users to verify recent project commits to ensure they’re not malicious</h4> <p>OpenDev.org, which hosts the official OpenStack source code, on Tuesday tore down its Gerrit deployment after realizing it had been secretly hacked two weeks ago.…</p></summary>
478 </entry>
479 <entry>
480 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211569</id>
481 <updated>2020-10-20T23:40:10Z</updated>
482 <author>
483 <name>Iain Thomson</name>
484 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson</uri>
485 </author>
486 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/20/nsa_china_hacking/"/>
487 <title type="html">Top tip, everyone: Chinese hackers are hitting these 25 vulns, so make sure you patch them ASAP, says NSA</title>
488 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Plus this Chrome one being exploited in the wild, we note</h4> <p>The NSA has blown the lid off 25 computer security vulnerabilities Chinese government hackers are using to break into networks, steal data, and so on. The US super-spies said they went public with their list to help IT staff prioritize bug fixing. That is to say: if you're unsure of which patches to apply, do these first.…</p></summary>
489 </entry>
490 <entry>
491 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211565</id>
492 <updated>2020-10-20T20:14:35Z</updated>
493 <author>
494 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
495 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
496 </author>
497 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/20/vmware_adobe_critical_cve_patches/"/>
498 <title type="html">VMware patches, among other things, ESXi flaw that can be abused by miscreants on the network to hijack hosts</title>
499 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Adobe issues out-of-band patches, too, for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, etc</h4> <p>Sysadmins responsible for VMware deployments should test and apply the latest security updates for the software.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
500 </entry>
501 <entry>
502 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211562</id>
503 <updated>2020-10-20T15:25:05Z</updated>
504 <author>
505 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
506 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
507 </author>
508 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/20/enisa_annual_report_cybersecurity/"/>
509 <title type="html">Remember insider threat? Old news now. Focus on malware detection, says EU infosec agency</title>
510 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>ENISA annual report also calls for better use of threat intel by frontline bods</h4> <p>Insider threats, ransomware and cyber espionage were all in decline in the early part of 2020, according to the EU’s cybersecurity agency – though the risk of an “uncontrolled cyber arms race” among nation states is growing.…</p></summary>
511 </entry>
512 <entry>
513 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211516</id>
514 <updated>2020-10-20T06:00:12Z</updated>
515 <author>
516 <name>David Gordon</name>
517 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=David%20Gordon</uri>
518 </author>
519 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/20/postgresql/"/>
520 <title type="html">You’ve open sourced your relational database manager with PostgreSQL – but how can you keep it secure?</title>
521 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>We'll help you manage risk while chasing your RDBMS dreams</h4> <p><strong>Webcast</strong> There was a time when open source was still – no matter how many decades it had driven software projects – regarded as the playground of hippies and utopians. Bold and brave, yet thrown together, inconsistent and unsecured when compared to more established products.…</p></summary>
522 </entry>
523 <entry>
524 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211545</id>
525 <updated>2020-10-19T20:47:55Z</updated>
526 <author>
527 <name>Gareth Corfield</name>
528 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Gareth%20Corfield</uri>
529 </author>
530 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/russians_charged_olympics/"/>
531 <title type="html">Notpetya, Olympics hacking, Novichok probe meddling... America throws the book at six alleged Kremlin hackers</title>
532 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>While the UK says Russia probed 2020 Games systems, too</h4> <p>Six men have been named as Russian military hackers and accused of spreading malware, disrupting the Olympics in retaliation for Russia's doping ban, and meddling with elections as well as probes into Novichok poisonings.…</p></summary>
533 </entry>
534 <entry>
535 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211534</id>
536 <updated>2020-10-19T15:29:11Z</updated>
537 <author>
538 <name>Lindsay Clark</name>
539 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Lindsay%20Clark</uri>
540 </author>
541 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/uk_test_and_trace_data/"/>
542 <title type="html">UK test-and-trace coronavirus data may be handed to police to nab those who aren't self-isolating as required</title>
543 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Plod 'involvement' could deter testing, says doctors' union</h4> <p>As if things were not going badly enough for the UK's COVID-19 test-and-trace service, it now seems police will be able to access some test data, prompting fears the disclosure could deter people who should have tests from coming forward.…</p></summary>
544 </entry>
545 <entry>
546 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211519</id>
547 <updated>2020-10-19T14:43:10Z</updated>
548 <author>
549 <name>Iain Thomson</name>
550 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Iain%20Thomson</uri>
551 </author>
552 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/security_in_brief/"/>
553 <title type="html">First, Patch Tuesday. Now, Oh Hell, Monday: Microsoft emits bonus fixes for Visual Studio, Windows 10 security bugs</title>
554 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>Plus: A warning to SharePoint operators</h4> <p><strong>In brief</strong> Just days after issuing fixes for scores of bugs in its products for this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has issued two more patches for security holes that can be exploited by maliciously crafted files to run malware on victims' computers.…</p> <p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' --></p></summary>
555 </entry>
556 <entry>
557 <id>tag:theregister.com,2005:story211496</id>
558 <updated>2020-10-19T10:30:08Z</updated>
559 <author>
560 <name>Rupert Goodwins</name>
561 <uri>https://search.theregister.com/?author=Rupert%20Goodwins</uri>
562 </author>
563 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/e2e_break_five_eyes/"/>
564 <title type="html">Will there be no end to govt attempts to break encryption? Hand over your data or the kiddies get it, threaten Five Eyes spies</title>
565 <summary type="html" xml:base="https://www.theregister.com/"><h4>The Great Unicorn Prayer of security services: Stay secure, but - ya know - give us backdoors</h4> <p><strong>Column</strong> In a move as predictable as it is wearisome, a bunch of government security agencies have got together and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/11/international_statementon_end_to_end_encryption_and_public_safety/">demanded</a> we let them have our data. This latest spooky manifestation is a collection of the Five Eyes - the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - and for some reason Japan and India. Let’s call this coalition of the chilling, JIANUSCUK.…</p></summary>
566 </entry>
567 </feed>