Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time After temporarily shelving its controversial Windows Recall feature amid a wave of backlash, Microsoft is back at it – now quietly slipping the screenshotting app into…
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Ransomware crims hammering UK more than ever as British techies complain the board just doesn’t get it
Issues at the very top continue to worsen The UK government’s latest annual data breach survey shows the number of ransomware attacks on the isles is on the increase – and many techies are forced to constantly informally request company directors…
Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan Facebook’s former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get…
Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck’s biz dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan Facebook’s former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get…
US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware derailed ops
Props for the transparency though US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused an operational disruption, and that it’s still working to fully restore affected systems.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware disrupts operations
Props for the transparency though US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused operational disruption, and that it’s still working to fully restore affected systems.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack
Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.… This article has been indexed…
Europol: Five pay-per-infect suspects cuffed, some spill secrets to cops
Officials teased more details to come later this year Following the 2024 takedown of several major malware operations under Operation Endgame, law enforcement has continued its crackdown into 2025, detaining five individuals linked to the Smokeloader botnet.… This article has…
The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here – an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast Oracle’s letter to customers about an intrusion into part of its public cloud empire – while insisting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was untouched – has…
Trump kills clearances for infosec’s SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs
Alleges cybersecurity agency was ‘weaponized’ to suppress debunked theories The Trump administration on Wednesday ordered a criminal investigation into alleged censorship conducted by the USA’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, plus revocation of any security clearances held by…
April’s Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login
Can’t Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it? Those keen to get their Microsoft PCs patched up as soon as possible have been getting an unpleasant shock when they try to get in using Windows Hello.… This article…
Wyden blocks Trump’s CISA boss nominee, blames cyber agency for ‘actively hiding info’ about telecom insecurity
It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Uncle Sam’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been “actively hiding information” about American telecommunications networks’ weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden.… This…
Sensitive financial files feared stolen from US bank watchdog
OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago A US banking regulator fears sensitive financial oversight data was stolen from its IT systems in what’s been described as “a major information security…
Google’s got a hot cloud infosec startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft’s $20B+ security biz
How Chocolate Factory hopes to double down on enterprise-sec Cloud Next Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.… This article has…
Google’s got a hot cloud security startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft’s $20B+ security biz
Chocolate Factory doubles down on enterprise security at Cloud Next Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.… This article has been…
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec A now-former pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) has been accused of compromising the US healthcare organization’s IT systems to ogle…
Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug
A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.… This…
Tough luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited OS bug
A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.… This…
Don’t open that JPEG in WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment – and, to be fair, it doesn’t take much craft…
Don’t open that JPEG sent to WhatsApp for Windows. It might be an .EXE
What a MIME field A bug in WhatsApp for Windows can be exploited to execute malicious code by anyone crafty enough to persuade a user to open a rigged attachment – and, to be fair, it doesn’t take much craft…