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04:40 DECT wireless eavesdropping made easy (theregister.co.uk)

16:36 2008: A year of cowboys in IT security (theregister.co.uk)
04:36 Boffins bust web authentication with game consoles (theregister.co.uk)

16:32 Windows Media Player flaw denied (theregister.co.uk)
16:32 Google Calendar phishing scam surfaces (theregister.co.uk)
04:32 RBS WorldPay breach exposes 1.5 million (theregister.co.uk)

16:28 CastleCops shuts up shop (theregister.co.uk)
16:28 CA issues no-questions asked Mozilla cert (theregister.co.uk)
16:28 Samsung digital picture frame CD infected by virus (theregister.co.uk)

04:00 Accused Scareware mongers held in contempt of court (theregister.co.uk)

03:56 Scareware mongers hitch free ride on Microsoft.com and others (theregister.co.uk)
03:56 Oil software exec pleads guilty to hacking charges (theregister.co.uk)
03:56 MS (finally) confirms unpatched SQL Server flaw (theregister.co.uk)

15:52 Prolific penis-pill pusher gets slap on the wrist (theregister.co.uk)
15:52 Datacash tracks down the 3rd Man (theregister.co.uk)
03:48 HouseCall throws a sickie (theregister.co.uk)
03:48 Transit agency to work with hackers who found vulns (theregister.co.uk)
03:48 US cybersecurity defences fail to thwart mock cyberattack (theregister.co.uk)

15:40 Corrupt cop abused police database to blackmail child abusers (theregister.co.uk)
15:40 American Express bitten by XSS bugs (again) (theregister.co.uk)
15:40 Florist kicks up a stink about false phish alarm (theregister.co.uk)

15:32 Man faces $52k bill after voicemail breach (theregister.co.uk)

15:28 ecademy exposes customer emails to world+dog (theregister.co.uk)
03:28 Mozilla hastily shoves Firefox updates out door (theregister.co.uk)

15:28 Internet gambling mogul surrenders $300m in guilty plea (theregister.co.uk)
03:24 German card leak delivered by microfilm (theregister.co.uk)
03:24 Nine in ten emails now spam (theregister.co.uk)
03:24 Microsoft issues emergency patch warning for IE (theregister.co.uk)
03:24 American Express web bug exposes card holders (theregister.co.uk)

15:20 Google sponsored links caught punting malware (theregister.co.uk)
15:20 Apple update purges 21 security vulns from OS X (theregister.co.uk)
03:16 MS issues brown alert over unpatched IE 7 flaw (theregister.co.uk)
03:16 Fifth man pleads guilty over Citibank ATM hack scam (theregister.co.uk)

15:12 Browsers fail password protection tests (theregister.co.uk)

15:04 Electronic votes mysteriously vanish in Ohio election (theregister.co.uk)
03:04 Facebook for Kids slammed by security researchers (theregister.co.uk)
03:04 Daft list names Firefox, Adobe and VMWare as top threats (theregister.co.uk)
03:04 IE zero day bites broader group of users (theregister.co.uk)
03:04 Brazilian hackers blamed for aiding Amazon deforestation (theregister.co.uk)

15:00 McDonalds survey scam is super-size fraud (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 London hospitals back online after PC virus infection (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Rootkit unearthed in network security software (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 WordPress update kyboshes XSS flaw (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Russian WebMoney hacker cuffed over Trojan scam (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Anti-fraud site targeted in Joe Job attack (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Selfish worm targets month-old Windows flaw (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Srizbi spam botnet in failed resurrection (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Biz travelers howl over US gov RFIDs (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Malware spread explains Pentagon USB ban (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Malware authors play Mario on emDaily Mail/em website (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Code generator card fights fraud (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Apple tells Mac users: Get anti-virus (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Study spanks Adobe Flash for abuses of power (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Online payment site hijacked by notorious crime gang (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Intel, Lenovo to foil laptop thieves (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 IT exec accused of $10m backup tape theft (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Apple anti-virus advice was nothing new (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 SonicWALL licensing snafu short-circuits protection (theregister.co.uk)
15:00 Bot-wielding hackers crash eBay holiday giveaway (theregister.co.uk)
02:56 Chinese researchers inadvertently release IE7 exploit code (theregister.co.uk)
02:56 Mozilla security boss bails (theregister.co.uk)

14:52 WordPad zero-day adds to MS security woes (theregister.co.uk)
02:48 Judge buries bogus malware-protection gang (theregister.co.uk)
02:48 Digital delinquents thrive on IE6 exploits (theregister.co.uk)
02:48 Fake Vint Cerf tweets link spam on Twitter (theregister.co.uk)
02:48 Bumper MS patch batch spells client-side misery (theregister.co.uk)

14:44 Why Morgan Stanley had to pay that $15m email fine (theregister.co.uk)
14:44 Facebook ignores huge security hole for four months (theregister.co.uk)
02:44 Hackers ahead of the game despite McColo shutdown (theregister.co.uk)
02:44 Four-year-old Diebold glitch silently drops votes (theregister.co.uk)
02:44 In-the-wild attacks find hole in (fully-patched) IE 7 (theregister.co.uk)

14:40 21 million German bank accounts - yours for only €12m (theregister.co.uk)
02:40 Brute force SSH attack confounds defenders (theregister.co.uk)
02:40 Obama urged to create White House cybersecurity chief (theregister.co.uk)
02:40 Penis pill botnet awakens after McColo shutdown (theregister.co.uk)
02:40 Facebook worm hijacks web search (theregister.co.uk)
02:40 Trio indicted over Trojan brokerage scam (theregister.co.uk)

14:28 MS lines up six critical fixes for Tuesday (theregister.co.uk)
02:24 New trojan in mass DNS hijack (theregister.co.uk)
02:24 Pair arrested over leaked BNP list (theregister.co.uk)

14:20 Green Hills spins out military Integrity for masses (theregister.co.uk)
02:16 Booby-trapped emails fly back into fashion (theregister.co.uk)
02:16 Firefox plug-in Trojan harvests logins (theregister.co.uk)
02:16 Microsoft to embed RSA data cop in Windows (theregister.co.uk)
02:16 Third ex-NASA Ames worker jailed for child porn (theregister.co.uk)