Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail Co-op Group’s chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization’s members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack – Scattered Spider is believed…
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Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege
Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be ‘deep breach’ of Active Directory Exclusive Aviation insiders say Serbia’s national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result…
Security shop Adarma ceases trading, confirms it will enter administration
Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Security…
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.… This article has been indexed from The…
Ex-US soldier who Googled ‘can hacking be treason’ pleads guilty to extortion
File this one under what not to search if you’ve committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump’s call logs, and then Googled “can hacking be treason,” and “US military…
Britain’s billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything
Stealth jets can’t fight, can’t fly much, and can’t shoot UK missiles, says NAO The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key…
Someone hijacked Elmo’s X account to post antisemitic rants
Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin’… Someone hacked Elmo’s X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and…
Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer
Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it’s able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind of hacking.… This article…
A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely
Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there When independent security researcher Neil Smith reported a vulnerability in a comms standard used by trains to…
GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan
Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats Britain and France are to work more closely on technology to back up the familiar Global Positioning System (GPS), which is increasingly subject to…
UK’s NCA disputes claim it’s nearly three times less efficient than the FBI
Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit back at a think tank after it assessed its US counterpart, the FBI, to be nearly three times more effective.……
Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government
Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITOI), the government body that develops and implements IT services for the country, is looking for suppliers of cloud computing.……
Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks
PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more Infosec In Brief Nvidia last week advised customers to ensure they employ mitigations against Rowhammer attacks, after researchers found one of…
You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here’s how to stop it
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don’t have any phony resumes or imposters in…
CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn
Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack – rookie errors kept damage minimal Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on July 1, just one day after its…
UK Online Safety Act ‘not up to scratch’ on misinformation, warn MPs
Last summer’s riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report…
Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn’t end well
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register‘s Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and…
French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges
‘He’s useless with computers and can’t even install an application’ says lawyer A Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang.……
Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive
Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app
Oh my sweet secret informant lover, what happened in that NATO meeting today? A lovestruck US Air Force employee has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit confidential national defense information after sharing military secrets information about the Russia-Ukraine war with…