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‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’

Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.…

Show of hands: who WASN'T targeted?

The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers' data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.…

Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative

Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning.…

Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise

Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers' data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases.…

Security firm's Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft's Drift platform breach

Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.…

Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019

Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.…

Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now

Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions.…

As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking

Register debate series  Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five years.…

Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help

A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…

Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks

Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…