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NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack

The Register - Thu, 31/07/2025 - 13:29
Government officials say they are monitoring the situation

A major supplier of healthcare equipment to the UK's National Health Service and local councils is on the verge of collapse 16 months after falling victim to cyber criminals.…

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Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

The Register - Thu, 31/07/2025 - 09:29
UK's Online Safety Act kicks off about as well as everyone expected

Analysis  With the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) now in effect, it was only a matter of time before tech-savvy under-18s figured out how to bypass the rules and regain access to adult content.…

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Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans

The Register - Thu, 31/07/2025 - 07:31
Italian operator calls for lawmakers to wake up to the critical role played by peering

Internet Exchange Points are an underappreciated resource that all internet users rely on, but governments have unfortunately ignored them, despite their status as critical infrastructure.…

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Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

The Register - Thu, 31/07/2025 - 03:30
Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics

Analysis  Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week.…

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The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

The Register - Thu, 31/07/2025 - 01:10
Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back

US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice.…

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Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

The Register - Wed, 30/07/2025 - 19:15
IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance...

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.…

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Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

The Register - Wed, 30/07/2025 - 18:02
Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…

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Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

The Register - Wed, 30/07/2025 - 18:00
'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack'

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul.…

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Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

The Register - Wed, 30/07/2025 - 15:53
The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines

Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today.…

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Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data

The Register - Wed, 30/07/2025 - 14:02
Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online

The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid.…

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CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when

The Register - Tue, 29/07/2025 - 23:46
The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…

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FBI: Watch out for these signs Scattered Spider is spinning its web around your org

The Register - Tue, 29/07/2025 - 21:20
New malware, even better social engineering chops

The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are now breaking into victims' networks using savvier social engineering techniques, searching for organizations' Snowflake database credentials, and deploying a handful of new ransomware variants, most recently DragonForce.  …

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Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 update fixes old bugs and dares you to break it again

The Register - Tue, 29/07/2025 - 14:44
5 V-tolerant GPIO opens the way to some intriguing retro-nerdery

The Raspberry Pi team has released an update to the RP2350 microcontroller with bug fixes, hardening, and a GPIO tweak that will delight retro hardware enthusiasts.…

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War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports

The Register - Tue, 29/07/2025 - 12:31
Troopers to swap radios for Turtle Beaches in preparation for ‘21st century challenges’

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament to upskill existing servicepeople in the digital skirmishes.…

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Microsoft spotlights Apple bug patched in March as SharePoint exploits continue

The Register - Mon, 28/07/2025 - 23:41
Look over there!

Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond reported the bug to Cupertino, which issued a fix back in March.…

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Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it's making everything more dangerous

The Register - Mon, 28/07/2025 - 22:21
Plus, 60% don't have enough analysts to make sense of it

Too many threats, too much data, and too few skilled security analysts are making companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the IT and security leaders tasked with protecting these organizations from digital threats.…

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Majority of 1.4M customers caught in Allianz Life data heist

The Register - Mon, 28/07/2025 - 15:31
No word on who's behind it, but attack has hallmarks of the usual suspects

Financial services biz Allianz says the majority of customers of one of its North American subsidiaries had their data stolen in a cyberattack.…

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Aeroflot aeroflops over 'IT issues' after attackers claim year-long compromise

The Register - Mon, 28/07/2025 - 13:14
Russia's top airline cancels 49 flights, delays affect many more

Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, canceled numerous flights on Monday morning following what it says was a failure in its IT systems - something hacktivists are claiming responsiblity for.…

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US spy satellite agency breached, but insists no classified secrets spilled

The Register - Mon, 28/07/2025 - 01:29
Plus, leak site for BlackSuit seized, Tea spilt, and avoid crime if you've got a famous dad

Infosec in brief  A computer intrusion hit the US spy satellite agency, but officials insist no classified secrets were lost - just some unclassified ones, apparently.…

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Congress tries to outlaw AI that jacks up prices based on what it knows about you

The Register - Sat, 26/07/2025 - 14:15
Surveillance-based pricing? Two lawmakers say enough

Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and wages.…

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