From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers grow uneasy over US digital dominance.… This…
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Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America
In practice, it’ll cost many times that and almost certainly won’t work In a White House press conference on Tuesday President Trump announced his plans for a defensive network of missiles, radar, space surveillance, and attack satellites that he promised…
M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack
Downtime stings retailer, with technical recovery costs coming at a later date Marks & Spencer says the disruption related to its ongoing cyberattack is likely to knock around £300 million ($402 million) off its operating profits for the next financial…
UK ‘extremely dependent’ on US for space security
After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying ‘rhetoric’ from Team Trump has Brits examining options The current rhetoric coming from the US is “alarming” for the UK, which depends on a continuation of their long-standing co-operation around…
Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America
Crew ain’t done hopping sectors, Unit 42 threat hunter warns interview Scattered Spider snared financial services organizations in its web before its recent spate of retail attacks in the UK and US, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.… This…
‘Ongoing’ Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds
Nothing like insecure code in security suites The “ongoing exploitation” of two Ivanti bugs has now extended beyond on-premises environments and hit customers’ cloud instances, according to security shop Wiz.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms
Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a fresh flaw in the JavaScript implementation of OpenPGP (OpenPGP.js) that allows both signed and encrypted messages to be spoofed.… This article has been indexed from…
Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets
Peter Green Chilled supplies all the major UK chains It’s more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates
Researcher finds VoLTE metadata could be used to locate users within 100 meters UK telco Virgin Media O2 has fixed an issue with its 4G Calling feature that allowed users’ general location to be discerned by those who called them.……
CISA has a new No. 2 … but still no official top dog
Brain drain, budget cuts, constant cyberthreats – who wouldn’t want this job? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation’s lead civilian cyber agency faces budget cuts, a…
CISA has a new No. 2 – but still no official top dog
Brain drain, budget cuts, and constant cyberthreats – who wouldn’t want this job? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation’s lead civilian cyber agency faces budget cuts,…
SEC SIM-swapper who Googled ‘signs that the FBI is after you’ put behind bars
Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC’s official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison…
Millions at risk after attackers steal UK legal aid data dating back 15 years
Cybercriminals lifted info including addresses, ID numbers, and financial records from agency systems A “significant amount of personal data” belonging to legal aid applicants dating back to 2010 in the UK was stolen by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ)…
IT chiefs of UK’s massive health service urge vendors to make public security pledge
Enormous org has been hit by ransomware again and again, on multiple fronts, over the past year Top cybersecurity officials within the UK government and the National Health Service (NHS) are asking CEOs of tech suppliers to pledge their allegiance…
Eeek! p0wned Alabama hit by unspecified ‘cybersecurity event’
PLUS: Euro-cops take down investment scammers; Fancy Bear returns to Ukraine; and more Infosec In Brief The Alabama state government is investigating an unspecified “cybersecurity event” that it said has affected some state systems, but didn’t involve the theft of…
China launches an AI cloud into orbit -12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years
PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more Asia In Brief Chinese company Guoxing Aerospace last launched a dozen satellites, each packing a 744 TOPS of computing power, in…
Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider’s fake help-desk calls: ‘Those guys are good’
Plus, Co-op tells The Reg: ‘we took early and decisive action’ to block the crooks INTERVIEW The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts. … This article…
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away
ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly where Computer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering…
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig
Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking Chinese government snoops – hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies – are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.……
America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown
Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilities Uncle Sam’s consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would’ve treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans’ sensitive data.……