On this week’s episode of The Reg’s Kettle podcast, we revisit ‘hacker summer camp,’ where the hottest topic was … sigh… agentic AI
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Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive
Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; Google, Apple, India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog – defensive AI security CEO says it’s not ruff to do
Corma CEO tells The Reg it’s building ‘One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power’
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
Eight years on, we’re still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution
1.6M RingCentral accounts’ data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Another one bites the dust
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
Autonomous AI attacks pose ‘clear and present danger’ to critical infrastructure
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim’s security tools – and broke their own encryptor
Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers’ details exposed in logistics breach
Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed
Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected
New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs
Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online
OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging
‘Computer History’ records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories