Security News
The UK government, in the form of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published its fourth annual breaches survey: the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019. It was...
Tell the boss you're not slacking off – it's vital threat intelligence research A government survey of British businesses has praised those who read El Reg to keep up to date with security news –...
Britain has identified "significant" issues in Huawei's engineering processes that pose "new risks" for the nation's telecommunications, a government report found Thursday amid lingering global...
The UK Police Federation of England & Wales (PFEW) website was subject to a malware attack that it discovered on March 9, 2019. It appears that this was a ransomware attack; but the strain has not...
Only 28% of gov.uk domains have been proactive in setting up DMARC appropriately, in line with UK Government Digital Service (GDS) advice in preparation for the retirement of the Government Secure...
You have to run GCHQ code? Nice try, spy guys UK signals intelligence agency GCHQ, celebrating its centenary, has released emulators for famed World War II-era cipher machines that can be run...
Less hiding behind 'national security' to hush up failures, please Britain's Cabinet Office (CO) hasn’t quite bungled the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP) but it could certainly be doing...
Pesky JavaScript malware harvester strikes again Sportswear brand FILA is the latest company to fall victim to the card-stealing JavaScript infection that menaced British Airways and Ticketmaster...
Data protection police come a-knocking. 'Put your computers and docs in the facking bag!' The UK's data protection watchdog today raided two businesses suspected of making millions of nuisance calls.…
Infosec skills are useful. But so are locked doors Journalists were able to bimble into a UK cable landing station almost completely unchallenged after security gates were left open and unlocked.…