ICO investigation into platform’s lack of age assurance continues The UK’s data watchdog has described Imgur’s move to block UK users as “a commercial decision” after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab.… This article has been indexed from The…
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Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told
Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him to put…
Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike
Coursework ‘gone forever’ as 10% report critical damage Schools and colleges hit by cyberattacks are taking longer to restore their networks — and the consequences are severe, with students’ coursework being permanently lost in some cases.… This article has been…
Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers
‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a…
Fake North Korean IT workers sneaking into healthcare, finance, and AI
It’s not just big tech anymore The North Korean IT worker threat extends well beyond tech companies, with fraudsters interviewing at a “surprising” number of healthcare orgs, according to Okta Threat Intelligence.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Tile trackers are a stalker’s dream, say Georgia Tech researchers
Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating ‘unique’ IDs, and more, make abuse easy Tile Bluetooth trackers leak identifying data in plain text, giving stalkers an easy way to track victims despite Life360’s security promises, a group of Georgia Tech researchers…
Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet
Stopping the spread isn’t the same as stopping attacks, period Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it won’t stop attacks outright.… This…
Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears
50,000 firewall devices still exposed Nearly 50,000 Cisco ASA/FTD instances vulnerable to two bugs that are actively being exploited by “advanced” attackers remain exposed to the internet, according to Shadowserver data.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
TMI: How cloud collaboration suites drive oversharing and unmanaged access
Sharing links take seconds to create, but can last for years Partner Content Seamless collaboration through cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 has radically reshaped the modern workplace. In the span of an hour, you could go from uploading budget proposals…
Britain’s policing minister punts facial recog nationwide
Met’s Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by the…
£5.5B Bitcoin fraudster pleads guilty after years on the run
Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas London’s Metropolitan Police has secured a “landmark conviction” following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Impact? Nope, don’t worry, be happy, says Linux veteran Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won’t…
Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments
The federal government’s not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1 The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to – and funding for – the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that…
Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer
No personal info gulped as yet, but don’t call for help Japan’s largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.… This…
One line of malicious npm code led to massive Postmark email heist
MCP plus open source plus typosquatting … what could possibly go wrong? A fake npm package posing as Postmark’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line of code that…
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
Baroness Manningham-Buller cites Kremlin sabotage, cyberattacks, and assassinations as signs of an undeclared conflict The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.… This…
UK minister suggests government could ditch ‘dangerous’ Elon Musk’s X
Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation The UK government should consider the possibility of leaving social media platform X, a high-profile minister has suggested.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Harrods blames its supplier after crims steal 430k customers’ data in fresh attack
Attackers make contact but negotiations fall on deaf ears Luxury London-based retailer Harrods is facing its second cybersecurity scandal in 2025, confirming criminals not only stole 430,000 customers’ data in a fresh attack but have even made contact.… This article…
Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown
Hundreds of thousands of workers in financial despair supported with landmark loan The UK government is stepping in with financial support for Jaguar Land Rover, providing it with a hefty loan as it continues to battle the fallout from a…
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us
Socio political backdrop is not what it once was…. Opinion UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer directly addressed his new policy of mandatory digital ID in the country for 23 seconds in its effective launch speech.… This article has been indexed…