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Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks

The Register - Sun, 08/02/2026 - 22:25
PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more

Infosec In Brief  So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.…

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Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

The Register - Sat, 07/02/2026 - 12:30
Research shows productivity and judgment peak decades after graduation

A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…

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Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party

The Register - Fri, 06/02/2026 - 16:56
Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…

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DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records

The Register - Fri, 06/02/2026 - 16:36
UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling

Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…

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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

The Register - Fri, 06/02/2026 - 00:39
The end isn't nigh after all

Chrome's latest revision of its browser extension architecture, known as Manifest v3 (MV3), was widely expected to make content blocking and privacy extensions less effective than its predecessor, Manifest v2 (MV2).…

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OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks

The Register - Thu, 05/02/2026 - 23:32
Skills marketplace is full of stuff - like API keys and credit card numbers - that crims will find tasty

Another day, another vulnerability (or two, or 200) in the security nightmare that is OpenClaw.…

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Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach

The Register - Thu, 05/02/2026 - 19:54
Contact details were accessed in an intrusion that went undetected for months, the blogging outfit says

Newsletter platform Substack has admitted that an intruder swiped user contact details months before the company noticed, forcing it to warn writers and readers that their email addresses and other account metadata were accessed without permission.…

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Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries

The Register - Thu, 05/02/2026 - 19:21
And their toolkit includes a new, Linux kernel rootkit

A state-aligned cyber group in Asia compromised government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries in an ongoing espionage campaign, according to security researchers.…

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