The Register

Vatican coders exorcise API gremlins but, we must confess, they missed one little monster…. Exclusive  The technology behind the Catholic Church’s latest innovation, an electronic rosary, is so insecure, it can be trivially hacked to siphon off worshipers’ personal information.… READ MORE HERE…

That’s ‘Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions’ University of Cambridge researchers and UK industry bods have been tossed £36m from the UK government to support their work with Arm to strengthen security by improving memory protection.… READ MORE HERE…

Ignore the overhead, enjoy Site Isolation – a defense against side-channel attacks Last year, Google deployed Site Isolation in desktop versions of its Chrome browser as a defense against CPU side-channel attacks like Spectre. The technique renders websites in separate processes to prevent one from interfering with or snooping on another, augmenting browser sandboxing defenses.… READ MORE HERE…

Any Reg readers have a solution? The web payment giant doesn’t care A Register reader says that for months he has been dealing with unwanted emails and alerts because a domain he purchased is connected to someone else’s PayPal account, and PayPal doesn’t seem to care.… READ MORE HERE…

23 kids saved, alleged scumbag-in-chief already in jail US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.… READ MORE HERE…

If you thought Reader, Acrobat, Experience Manager were skipping October’s Patch Tuesday, think again Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it’s roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.… READ MORE HERE…

The wrong kind of intrusion protection Updated  Symantec has acknowledged an issue with an update to its Endpoint Protection Client that causes a Windows kernel exception after users this morning came down with a mild case of Blue Screen of Death.… READ MORE HERE…

All it takes is -u#-1 … Wh%& t#e fsck*? It’s only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.… READ MORE HERE…

Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown Responding to concern that its Safari browser’s defense against malicious websites may reveal the IP addresses of some users’ devices to China-based Tencent, Apple insists that Safari doesn’t reveal a different bit of information, the webpages Safari users visit.… READ MORE HERE…

Venerable stamp-machine maker stalled by server infection Pitney Bowes, the US stamping meter maker, has been infected with ransomware, leaving customers unable to top-up their equipment with credit nor access the corporate web store.… READ MORE HERE…