Plus: Cracked Piers Morgan spews offensive tweets, not the usual kind Updated  A miscreant this Christmas weekend said they are willing to sell public and private info on more than 400 million Twitter accounts.…

Plus: SonicWall hacked, Qualcomm security wobble, warrantless cellphone monitoring by US snoops revealed In brief  One-time ADT security engineer Telesforo Aviles, 35, pleaded guilty to computer fraud in the US after spying on women through their home surveillance cameras.…

Plus: Watch out for NTFS-corrupting folder, Mimecast hack, and more In brief  Last week ended with news that the venerable infosec mailing list Bugtraq was being shutdown at the end of the month.…

Plus: Kazakh man charged with corporate mega-hack, and more In brief  With world+dog on Zoom these days, news of a zero-day attack against the videoconferencing app would cause a stir, but relax – it's only if you're on Windows 7 or older.…

Fears of cyber-hijackings? That's plane crazy, says Dreamliner maker Black Hat  A Black Hat presentation on how to potentially hijack a 787 – by exploiting bugs found in internal code left lying around on a public-facing server – was last night slammed as "irresponsible and misleading" by Boeing.…

Give it a Wray, give it a Wray, give it a Wray now: Big Chris steps in to defend blowing a hole in personal crypto FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is rather peeved that you all think the US government is trying to weaken cryptography, privacy, and online security, by demanding backdoors in encryption software.…

Rap for snoopware chaps in chat app voice yap trap flap – now everyone patch Updated  A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on.…

That's how you pronounce 😾😾😾: A means to bury spyware deep inside pwned networking gear Security weaknesses at the heart of some of Cisco's network routers, switches, and firewalls can be exploited by hackers to hide spyware deep inside compromised equipment.…

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks – is set to end as it's no longer worth the hassle.…

'I regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes' Marcus Hutchins, the British security researcher who shot to fame after successfully halting the Wannacry ransomware epidemic, has pleaded guilty to crafting online bank-account-raiding malware.…

'If someone like me can't get in to give a keynote, perhaps it's time we rethink where we organize our events' RSA  Adi Shamir, the S in the renowned RSA encryption system, didn't take his usual place on the Cryptographers' Panel at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco – because he couldn't get a visa from the US government. And he's not alone.…

Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats The US government has indicted two men for allegedly reporting almost 120 fake emergencies or crimes in the hope of provoking action by armed law enforcement agencies.…

More of a storm in a teacup Today's news that Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security system is open to abuse may be overstated.…

If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do Windows users who haven't yet installed the latest fixes to their operating systems will need to get a move on, as code now exists to exploit a critical Microsoft vulnerability announced by Redmond two weeks ago.…

Allowed access to 150K cameras, some in sensitive spots, but has been done for spamming Physical security biz Verkada has agreed to cough up $2.95 million following an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – but the payment won’t make good its past security failings, including a blunder that led to CCTV footage being snooped on by miscreants. Instead, the fine is about spam.…

Good news? Security is still getting a growing part of IT budget It looks like security budgets are coming up against belt-tightening policies, with chief security officers reporting budgets rising more slowly than ever and over a third saying their spending this year will be flat or even reduced.…