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Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors

India’s government has denied that it is working on rules that would require smartphone manufacturers to provide access to their source code.…

PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more!

Asia in Brief  The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have suspended access to social network X, on grounds that it allows users to produce sexual imagery without users’ consent.…

PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more

infosec in brief  Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem led to theft of users’ personal information.…

Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation

ANALYSIS  From May's cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.…

Remember when government agents didn't wear masks?

While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for its multi-billion-dollar surveillance tech budget.…

Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant

France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia.…

State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says

North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into credential-stealing weapons, the FBI has warned, as Pyongyang's spies find new ways to duck enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins.…

Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild

Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public.…

Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions

Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI feature that "undressed" people on command.…

As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again

On Call  2025 has ended and a new year is upon us, but The Register will continue opening Friday mornings with a fresh installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of tech support.…