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New Google bugs empower phishermen

Thanks to newly disclosed Google security vulns, phishers can spoof dead ringer log-in pages for Gmail, Google Calender, and several other online Mountain View apps

Phishers adapt old scams to exploit bank turmoil

Mergers spawn malicious emails

Crime 12 Oct 09:02

Revo Pico RadioStation DAB+ radio

Review Ready for the revamped-DAB revolution

Reg Hardware 11 Oct 07:02

SpringSource regains footing with support change

Inclusive, not exclusive

Developer 10 Oct 23:39

Sprint execs named "most overpaid" in 2007

$74m in CEO pay, $29bn in loses

Financial News 10 Oct 23:34

Organized crime tampers with European card swipe devices

Customer data beamed overseas

Crime 10 Oct 21:21

Gates dethroned as tech's richest get thumped

Larry Ellison searches sofa for change

Financial News 10 Oct 20:59

GavelUS telco: 'Public broadband is illegal'

Judge: 'Pull the other one'

paypalPayPal top-up card is titsup

And nobody knows anything

Wal-Mart pressured into tune keys life support

DRM servers open 'for the present time'

Music and Media 10 Oct 19:49

Scotland Mountain Rescue turns on Ofcom

Volunteers asked to put anger into words

Government 10 Oct 18:10

Imation backpedals in Q3

Blames The Meltdown

Storage 10 Oct 18:04

MS: Xbox will not go Blu

Giant has 'no plans' to bring the format to its console

Reg Hardware 10 Oct 16:17

Merrill Lynch buys IBM's iDataPlex blades

But with whose cash?

Servers 10 Oct 15:24

Agile Development’s Secret Sauce

Reg Reader Workshop It’s all in the recipe

Workshop 10 Oct 15:12

OpenOffice.org welcomes gatecrashers to version 3.0 orgy

Key-swapping is optional extra

Applications 10 Oct 14:50

Verizon to charge for message termination

Feed the masses, threepence a time

Mobile 10 Oct 14:35

Virgin Media calls foul on web speed testers

'We're just too quick for you'

Telecoms 10 Oct 14:18

Laptops to blame for Qantas jet plunge?

Cargo hold over-filled with XXXX no longer thought responsible

Reg Hardware 10 Oct 14:14

Oz radio newsreader skips broadcast for Facebook

IT team probe exposes social networking hackette

Bootnotes 10 Oct 14:02

'World's first' WiMax mobile phone spied

HTC planning Russian WiMax launch?

Reg Hardware 10 Oct 13:33

Channel 4 in Heathrow Playmobil reconstruction shocker

Oi!

Bootnotes 10 Oct 13:22

Vista scrabbles for X Factor

You can't sing, you can't dance - what do you want me to say?

Bootnotes 10 Oct 13:03

Dial 'M' for Microsoft's new programming language

Oslo trio uncovered

Developer 10 Oct 13:02

C4 abandons DAB

Farewell, consortium

Music and Media 10 Oct 13:00

US Justice Dept builds microwave heat-ray 'rifle'

Settings: Radar, pain-blaster or nudie perv scan

Science 10 Oct 12:34

Turbo-charged wireless hacks threaten networks

Graphics cards encryption skulduggery

Enterprise Security 10 Oct 12:25

Startup promises auto Windows file virtualisation

Consolidate file storage and drive up disk utilisation

Storage 10 Oct 12:15

Canada sex shop heist shafts proprietress

Vibrator theft ruins buzz

Bootnotes 10 Oct 11:38

Asus Eee Box Atom-based desktop mini PC

Review Small, Cheap Computers aren't just laptops, you know

Reg Hardware 10 Oct 11:35

Taser rival offers cops 'Trade in your Taser' zapgun deal

Also punts remote-control electroshock handcuffs

Policing 10 Oct 11:31

Mandriva Linux 2009 threesome outed

So many flavours, so little time

Channel Register 10 Oct 11:27

Sun's not so cheap trick doesn't work

A Unisys look-alike?

Servers 10 Oct 11:10

BOFH: Unfriendly ghosts

Episode 33 The expense of defence

BOFH 10 Oct 11:02

US woman shot by cast iron stove

Pops a .22 cap in her sorry ass calf

Bootnotes 10 Oct 11:00

BT's 21st Century network, er... isn't

No IPv6 support for you, sonny

Data Networking 10 Oct 10:56

US military: Electropulse bombs now from next year

Maryland state gov preps tinfoil windmill defences

Science 10 Oct 10:42

Radiation warning for low-energy lightbulbs

UV emissions could be danger

Biology 10 Oct 10:22

Opera update quietly fixes bug brace

Shh, we're guarding against 'severe' vulns

Enterprise Security 10 Oct 10:18

Serial commentard bitchslaps Reg hack

FoTW 'Run away you little pansy, the databases are coming'

Bootnotes 10 Oct 10:10

Symantec hedges bets with large stake in hosted security

Analysis MessageLabs deal pilots security giant into cloud computing

Enterprise Security 10 Oct 10:06

Brussels bounces BT-Phorm quiz back to UK.gov

'Let's try that once more shall we?'

Telecoms 10 Oct 10:02

ATK shows off 'palletised, plug-in' robot cannon system

From the crate to reaping fleshies in 10 minutes

Science 10 Oct 09:25

MoD loses most of the armed forces

Oh! what a lovely data loss

Government 10 Oct 09:20

Plasmon Inc preps for rebirthing

But little return expected on Plasmon Ltd

Storage 10 Oct 09:00

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