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Security shop Adarma ceases trading, confirms it will enter administration

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 09:27
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.…

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Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

The Register - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 23:59
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.…

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Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion

The Register - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 23:05
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 personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million.…

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Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

The Register - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 09:30
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 weapons that are limiting the aircraft's effectiveness.…

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Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 22:43
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 anti-Trump posts.…

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Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 21:02
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.…

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A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 18:42
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 the US government in 2012, he most likely didn't expect it would take until 2025 to sort the matter out, but here we are. …

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GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 11:21
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 interference in many regions around the world.…

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UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 09:37
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.…

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Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 06:15
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.…

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Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 00:46
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 its workstation-grade GPUs is susceptible to the exploit.…

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You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem - here's how to stop it

The Register - Sun, 13/07/2025 - 12:02
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 your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.…

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CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 19:15
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 public disclosure.…

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UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 11:31
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 from MPs has found.…

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Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 08:29
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 triumph.…

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French cops cuff Russian pro basketball player on ransomware charges

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 07:29
'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.…

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Chinese censorship-busters claim Tencent is trying to kill its WeChat archive

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 06:44
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.…

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Lovestruck US Air Force worker admits leaking secrets on dating app

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 00:58
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 a woman he met on a dating app.…

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Now everybody but Citrix agrees that CitrixBleed 2 is under exploit

The Register - Thu, 10/07/2025 - 23:13
Add CISA to the list

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added its weighty name to the list of parties agreeing that CVE-2025-5777, dubbed CitrixBleed 2 by one researcher, has been under exploitation and abused to hijack user sessions.…

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Ex-ASML engineer who stole chip tech for Russia gets three years in Dutch prison

The Register - Thu, 10/07/2025 - 21:29
'Whether those files were allowed to go to Russia? I didn't ask'

A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology from his employers and sharing it with Russia.…

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