The Russian leaker AngelWZR has confirmed that all of the ediions of Windows 8 RTM that have leaked over the weekend can now be activated with a workaround. This will not please Microsoft. More...

US regulators are to crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose money or gifts received from companies when reviewing their products. In the new policy from the Federal Trade Commission, offending bloggers could eventually... More...

[quote]The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows... More...

Disk encryption software used on many systems can be circumvented using what researchers referred to as "simple non-destructive techniques". A report from researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Princeton University and Wind River Systems concluded... More...

A clever bloke into security research at the University of Cambridge computer lab wrote in his bog last Friday that he's discovered Google works as a password MD5 hash cracker. Someone had hacked into his... More...

A digital rights management (DRM) licensing authority is strong-arming search firms, bloggers and open source advocates in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of a software key that disables copyright protection on Blu-ray and... More...

Buzz about a Windows Vista zero-day vulnerability is troubling enough (although probably overblown). Now, there appears to be a second product activation hack, this one designed to fool the activation timer into not counting down.... More...

Hidden malware search capabilities within Google which were reserved for antivirus and security research firms just weeks ago have been cracked by hackers, according to security industry sources. specific malware program, according to researchers from... More...

An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the undefined undefined Google Desktop application to covertly hijack user information. Matan Gillon,... More...

Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI Dynamics, which discovered the security... More...

California regulators have declared a hunting season on unlicensed Internet escrow companies. According to Associated Press, five were shut down yesterday by the Escrow Fraud Task Force with a little help the Federal Trade Commission,... More...

Pornographers beware - new legislation coming into law in the US will soon make the practise of covertly taping people "for lascivious purposes" illegal. Described as "video voyeurism", the practise has become the "new frontier... More...

Forged documents could be signed off for good with a new technique that produces a 3D hologram of handwriting. Through virtual reality and image processing, tiny pressure bumps in writing can be analysed to spot... More...

German police have carried out their biggest ever crackdown on internet piracy in probe against 126 members of an online hackers' forum. The Germans are thought to be part of a wider network of 476... More...

Computer code that exploits a critical new software vulnerability in the Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems is circulating on the Internet, according to security experts. Two examples of "exploit" code for a buffer... More...

Nokia today vowed to "aggressively pursue" the people behind the successful attempt to crack its N-Gage handheld console-cum-phone's copy protection mechanism. A Nokia spokesman told The Register the company had already begun working... More...

MICROSOFT HAS FLEXED its legal muscle and sent the project to crack the encryption keys that protect X Box games from copying scuttling for cover. A message on the Neo Project website states. ... More...

Policies, monitoring and checking-up on employee's Internet surfing, are increasingly on the agenda for Australian businesses, according to one industry analyst. Research from industry analyst Gartner (US) found that as much as 40 percent... More...

A proposal being considered by a key Web services organization could pave the way for Sun Microsystems to join on equal footing with rivals Microsoft and IBM. But continued political battling could sidetrack the effort.... More...

Thank you Darren Proponents deny wireless networking spec is vulnerable to hijack, authentication attacks. A University of Maryland professor and his graduate student have apparently uncovered serious weaknesses in the... More...