Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters’ access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as “an excellent opportunity for policing.” Privacy campaigners diagree.……
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Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor
Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK’s Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector’s only viable option
For now at least – even though government buying can improve, open-source is not all its cracked up to be Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government’s money it voraciously consumes –…
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity protocol vulnerabilities,” addressed in the latest version, saying…
Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul’s 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the…
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion
Tells court ‘What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct’ Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called “stablecoin” Terra USD and now faces time in jail.… This…
Crypto crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion
Tells court ‘What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct’ Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called “stablecoin” Terra USD and now faces time in jail.… This…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday baker’s dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE
None under active exploit…yet Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is listed as being publicly known.… This article has been indexed from…
Manpower franchise discloses data theft after RansomHub posts alleged stolen data
And yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise’s network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the extortionists claimed that they pilfered “all of [the…
Major outage at Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office blamed on ‘cyber incident’
Website, emails, and phones are down for a second day The Pennsylvania’s Office of Attorney General (OAG) is blaming a digital blackout of its services on a “cyber incident.”… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown
US cops yank servers, domains, and crypto from the Russia-linked gang – but the crooks remain at large In a display of bureaucratic bravado, US law enforcement agencies say they’ve “disrupted” the BlackSuit ransomware gang (also known as Royal), freeing…
Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating
Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel Prolific cybercrime collectives Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ appear to have come together in a new Telegram channel that shares news of their exploits.……
Hyundai: Want cyber-secure car locks? That’ll be £49, please
Automaker’s answer to spate of car thefts is to charge customers for extra Hyundai is charging UK customers £49 ($66) for a security upgrade to prevent thieves from bypassing its car locks.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
The White House could end UK’s decade-long fight to bust encryption
Home Office officials reportedly concede Brit government on back foot as Trump moves to protect US Big Tech players Analysis The Home Office’s war on encryption – its most technically complex and controversial aspect of modern policymaking yet – is…
Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI Oops, researchers show
Sysadmins, your job is safe Automating IT operations using AI may not be the best idea at the moment.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Poisoned telemetry can turn AIOps into AI…
Russia’s RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks
A few weeks earlier ‘zeroplayer’ advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs
The alleged perpetrators remain at large The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company.… This article has been…
Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear
The bad news? The machines, and their operators, are coming on fast Black Hat/DEF CON At the opening of Black Hat, the largest security shindig in the Hacker Summer Camp week ahead of DEF CON and BSides, the opening keynote…
Wikimedia Foundation loses first court battle to swerve Online Safety Act regulation
But it can contest if it lands up in ‘Category 1,’ and the move hurts operations, says judge Wikipedia today lost a legal battle against the UK’s tech secretary to tighten the criteria around the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA),…
Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down
Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as…