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Tech titans meet in secret to plug SSL hole

Researchers have uncovered a flaw in the secure sockets layer protocol that lets attackers surreptitiously inject text into encrypted traffic. But a fix hashed out in secret is on the way

Eight charged in $9.5m payment processor hack

Gone in 12 hours

Crime 10 Nov 20:04

Apple pushes out Blue Monday patch batch

Tell me now how do I feel?

Security 10 Nov 15:53

Pentagon chiefs buy net-security early warning system

'Arming the cyber warrior'

Enterprise Security 10 Nov 15:52

Firefox flaws make up 44% of all browser bugs?

But numbers game ignores the big picture

Enterprise Security 10 Nov 15:03

MS forensics tool leaks onto the web

COFEE spill creates nasty mess

Crime 10 Nov 11:55

Next generation spammers rise up in Asia, India and Brazil

High-speed broadband allows worldwide miscreanting

Spam 10 Nov 07:02

Amazon logo 75Amazon's EC2 brings new might to password cracking

Cloudonomics and the art of black-hat hacking

Bug in latest Linux gives untrusted users root access

Protections for some, but not all

Google Reader Koobface spotlights security risk 2.0

Threat-resistant workers bypass Web 2.0 roadblocks

Security 10 Nov 07:02

Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet

Mega-D no more

Security 10 Nov 06:02

Bot herders hide master control channel in Google cloud

Google AppEngine co-opted

Security 9 Nov 19:42

Watchdog clears NotW over renewed phone hack allegations

The Guardian takes pop at PCC 'whitewash'

Crime 9 Nov 13:25

How malware frames the innocent for child abuse

Traces of guilt

Spyware 9 Nov 11:46

Play.com emails customer details to other customers

No explanation yet from data-spraying vendor

Enterprise Security 9 Nov 11:43

World's first iPhone worm Rickrolls angry fanbois

Hey, jailbreakers: ikee never gonna give you up

Security 8 Nov 22:25

Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are'

Identifiers don't identify

ID 7 Nov 00:17

Doctor sentenced for massive online Rx factory

Over 100,000 served

Crime 6 Nov 19:17

Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets

Evil Maid attack led to air raid

Spyware 6 Nov 16:38

Controversial email blocklist SORBS sold

GFI confirms purchase of reputation service

Spam 6 Nov 11:05

Backdoor in top iPhone games stole user data, suit claims

Storm8's iSpy

Security 6 Nov 06:02

Facebook, MySpace backdoor exposed user accounts

Bit drafty in here

Security 5 Nov 20:11

Swedish spooks knocked offline by hack attack

DDoS attack follows intro of new monitoring powers

Crime 5 Nov 15:24

Google launches privacy Dashboard service

What does Google know about me?

ID 5 Nov 12:30

Cybercriminals down five British police forces in a year

For more than three days each

Enterprise Security 5 Nov 10:39

Judge spanks lawyer for leaking personal details in brief

'Negligent, inattentive electronic filing'

ID 5 Nov 00:51

Men allegedly broke into computers of former employer

Poor password hygiene indictment

Crime 5 Nov 00:12

Twitter fanatic glimpses dark side of OAuth

'Secure' authentication can be anything but

Security 4 Nov 19:03

Mac art project game destroys aliens files

Lose / Lose

Anti-Virus 4 Nov 17:50

Google opens up OAuth to tackle password chores

Cleverness to dispose of onerous task of logging in

ID 4 Nov 15:54

Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses

User Account Control easily bypassed

Enterprise Security 4 Nov 13:22

Whitehall plans 'White Noise' phone network collapse

Unjoined-up government, coming next week

Enterprise Security 4 Nov 12:50

Lords want help on cyber attacks

Give the learned gents a hand

Enterprise Security 4 Nov 11:51

PrevX piles in against bank Trojans, phishing

Plugging gaps in traditional anti-malware

Enterprise Security 4 Nov 11:42

Newfangled cookie attack steals/poisons website creds

Google, Facebook risk

Security 4 Nov 00:24

Trojan pokes Facebook for zombie commands

Anti-social networking

Spyware 3 Nov 16:01

M86 picks up Finjan to tackle web-based threats

Doubling up on behaviour-based protection

Enterprise Security 3 Nov 11:45

Devious decryption scam rides ransomware Trojan

We can remember it for you wholesale

Spyware 3 Nov 09:50

Hacker charged in $1m cable ISP customer cloning scheme

MAC spoofing biz flourished for six years

Crime 3 Nov 00:20

US gov warns banks on money mules

More dough in the laundry

Crime 2 Nov 18:32

Notorious Kiwi pill spammers slapped with fine

Herbal King dethroned

Spam 2 Nov 15:43

Microsoft security report shows worms are returning

UK holding its own in cyber security

Anti-Virus 2 Nov 14:02

Pirate Bay clampdown prompted file sharing site spike

A true 'cloud computing' effort, reports McAfee

Anti-Virus 2 Nov 13:23

TalkTalk to fight net disconnection plan

Speak to you in court

Anti-Virus 2 Nov 06:02

DDoS attacks topple 40 Swedish sites

Police among victims

Crime 30 Oct 22:12

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