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Police raided 16 Indian call centers last week - a second big raid sparked by Microsoft filing complaints about tech support scammers.

Starting today, extensions with obfuscated code are banned and developers must go through a stricter extensions review process.

Plus: The Reg chats to wartime Bombe operator Ruth Bourne The Bombe team at The National Museum Of Computing has succeeded in breaking an Enigma-encrypted message in a live Poland-to-England demo.…

E-Commerce Site Investigates Malware Attack and Payment Card Data TheftOnline retailer Newegg is investigating a malware attack that may have stolen customers' payment card details for more than a...

The search giant said that in future any company wanting to advertise these services would have to pass manual verification checks first.

Verification programme aims to weed out the miscreants Google has placed restrictions on tech support ads after admitting it's increasingly hard to tell promos for legit services from deceptions.…

While looking for ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard, Hashcat developer Jens “Atom” Steube found a simpler way to capture and crack access credentials protecting WPA and WPA2 wireless...

Crypto-code unleashed to inflict security, performance and stability on devs Looking for a TLS 1.3 library? Facebook has you covered. On Monday, the ads and data peddler plans to release Fizz, a...

DHS Agents Posed as Money Launderers, Helping Suspects Cash Out CryptocurrencyFederal authorities have arrested more than 35 suspects on charges that include selling illicit substances via darknet...

SEV attack would let hypervisors lift memory contents A group of German researchers have devised a method to thwart the VM security in AMD's server chips.…