IT Security News

The Register: Troubled Watchkeeper drones miss crucial UK flight safety certificate - Big drone, big money, big problems The British Army's massively overdue Watchkeeper drone project ha ow.ly/gJMO50gXqMZ

The Register: F-35B Block 4 software upgrades will cost Britain £345m - After we leave the EU we could cover that in a week with change to spare ... allegedly Britain will ow.ly/f5YT50gXhNm

The Register: Holy sweat! Wearables have THREE attack surfaces - The device, the app and the cloud, and your development lifecycle isn’t fit enough to catch up Black ow.ly/DJQh50gXe5w

The Register: Internet Society: cryptocurrency probably not an identity system - ID on a blockchain? Maybe. ID on Bitcoin? Forget it Too many cryptocurrency people are trying to for ow.ly/7H8n50gXaVW

The Register: What ends with X and won't sue security researchers? - Netflix lures bounty-hunters, Dropbox offers vulnerabiliy research safe harbour If you listen carefu ow.ly/Ztmk50gX8bc

The Register: US mulls drafting gray-haired hackers during times of crisis - Shortage of tech talent has government pondering end to age, gender restrictions A US government com ow.ly/mGjX50gWPiC

The Register: UK surgeon suspects his PC was hacked to target Syrian hospital - Not the only possible theory, say infosec types A British surgeon whose instructions over the intern ow.ly/X4K250gWCdI

The Register: Symantec cert holdout sites told: Those Google Chrome warnings are not a good look - User will stop trusting you, warns researcher Many high profile UK sites still use Symantec certific ow.ly/YDN750gWzye

The Register: Creaking Chromebooks getting Meltdown protection soon - Chrome OS 66 to protect older Intel units, still working on ARM Older Chromebook owners should keep ow.ly/KYlF50gWbL9

The Register: Commonwealth Games are just the ticket for Facebook - Free Wi-Fi will be lousy without a Social Network™ login, which in this of all weeks is just dumb Fa ow.ly/Dnme50gW84u

The Register: CTS who? AMD brushes off chipset security bugs with firmware patches - Just give it a few weeks notice next time, not 24 hours AMD has finally weighed in with its opinion ow.ly/MHtC50gW84v

The Register: Now that's a bad trip: 880k credit cards 'likely' stolen by Orbitz hackers - And bad news for healthy types: Active.com thoroughly pwned, too Vacation-booking biz Orbitz has war ow.ly/mLRx50gW0cX

The Register: FBI raids home of spy sat techie over leak of secret comms source code on Facebook - Ex-NRO bod also allegedly swiped $340k of espionage kit plus classified files The FBI has raided the ow.ly/JO2M50gVSAv

The Register: Leading by example: UK.gov's secure server setup is patchy at best - Many .gov websites 'broken, misconfigured or insecure' The security of UK government websites is inc ow.ly/1JIv50gVr79

The Register: Brit police forces spend peanuts on cybercrime training - £1.3m over three years? Get with the times, plod The police force covering the base of the UK's elec ow.ly/CW5k50gVr78

The Register: Apple moves on HSTS abuse in Safari - WebKit updated to kill 'supercookies' Apple has moved to block an abuse vector in the WebKit framewo ow.ly/nTF650gVflu

The Register: IT security in US State of Michigan deemed so-so - One in five staff fail phishing test, but that's fine apparently Network security for the US State o ow.ly/TRqc50gV0i2

The Register: BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose - Undercover investigation reveals dodgy tactics and sparks search warrant Controversial data analytic ow.ly/FTMU50gUYEg

The Register: Coverity Scan code checker's systems crypto-jacked to run cheeky mining op - Freebie tool restored after 4 weeks offline The systems of freebie open-source code scanning tool Co ow.ly/wCq550gUJkM

The Register: Facebook suspends account of Cambridge Anlaytica whistle-blower - Data science firm says it did have Facebook data, but didn’t harvest it Chris Wylie, the whistle-blo ow.ly/VOW550gUmr7