Gareth Corfield
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Reg reader rages over Virgin Media's email password policy
No more than 10 alphanumerics, no special characters – in 2022? → Read More
Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog
Poor securing of Elasticsearch cluster strikes again → Read More
Tired: What3Words. Wired: A clone location-tracking service based on FOUR words – and they are all extremely rude
A tour of UK tech HQs courtesy of some saucy Anglo-Saxonisms → Read More
Iranian state-backed hackers posed as flirty Scouser called Marcy to target workers in defence and aerospace
Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study. Researchers from Proofpoint said this morning they had uncovered a fake social media account being operated by state-backed Iranians, tracked internally by the enterprise security firm as TA456. Using the… → Read More
Doncaster insurance firm One Call hit by not-dead-at-all Darkside ransomware gang
Local paper reports £15m heist demand amid Colonial Pipeline chaos → Read More
I'll give you my passwords if you investigate police corruption, accused missile systems leaker told cops
A former BAE Systems engineer accused of failing to hand over his device passwords to Merseyside Police vowed not to give them up until a watchdog investigated his allegations that police workers had perverted the course of justice, the Old Bailey heard. In a letter read to the court, Simon Finch is said to have told Detective Constable Tim Putney of the Met Police: "Dear Sir, I shall provide… → Read More
Cloud biz Blackbaud admits ransomware crims may have captured folks' bank info, months after saying that everything's fine
The same lot who bought off crooks in May but kept quiet till July → Read More
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec → Read More
'Work pressure' sees Maze ransomware gang demand payoff from wrong company
New York architects hit instead of Canadian standards agency after crooks get names mixed up → Read More
Keepnet kerfuffle: Firing legal threats at bloggers did infosec biz more damage than its exposed database
Comment UK-based infosec outfit Keepnet Labs left an 867GB database of previously compromised website login details accessible to world+dog earlier this year – then sent lawyers' letters to bloggers in a bid to erase their reports of its blunder. A contractor left the Keepnet Elasticsearch database unsecured back in March after disabling a firewall, exposing around five billion harvested files… → Read More
Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays
Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint → Read More
Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Yes, the country
Austria's parliament came within moments of slashing its annual spending limit to peanuts after someone omitted the key words "figures in billions" from its national budget bill. Government spending in the mid-European nation came close to being capped at just €102,389.24 (£91,684.44 or $114,106.15 at current rates) until a sharp-eyed MP realised and pointed out the blunder immediately before… → Read More
Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa → Read More
Surprise! That £339 'world's first anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it
A £339 "anti-5G" product billed as the "first to market full-spectrum protection" appears to be nothing more than a bog-standard £5 USB stick with an LED on the end, according to Pen Test Partners. The "quantum" USB stick, branded as the "5GBioShield", is a "proprietary holographic nano-layer catalyst technology" and a "remediation from all harmful radiation, electro-smog and biohazard… → Read More
Cybercrooks tend to prefer Google-branded phishing to Microsoft-flavoured lures
Digital rogues are shunning Microsoft in favour of Google when it comes to launching branded spear-phishing attacks, according to threat intel firm Barracuda Networks. The outfit reckons malicious people abusing Google services such as Drive, Docs and Cloud managed to launch 65,000 attacks between January and April. "Of the nearly 100,000 form-based attacks Barracuda detected between January 1,… → Read More
Broadcom sends its England-based staff back into office as UK lockdown eases – though Welsh workers get a free pass
'Split-shift model' to safely help 'critical infrastructure workforce' do its thing → Read More
26 million logins believed to be stolen from LiveJournal in 2017 pop up on hacker forum
Best change any recycled credentials from your blogging days → Read More
Not going Huawei just yet: UK ministers reportedly rethinking pledge to kick Chinese firm out of telco networks by 2023
Reality intrudes into politics and tech once again → Read More
Airline-chasing lawyers leap on Easyjet for £18bn after 9m folks' data, itineraries nicked
No win, no fee. But if they win it's an up to £5.4bn fee → Read More
Unmanned drones to slash NHS delivery times to one-fifth of road 'n' rail transport
Scottish trial will courier PPE and COVID-19 tests to remote hospital → Read More