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Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…
Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for - the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…
One line of malicious npm code led to massive Postmark email heist
A fake npm package posing as Postmark's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server silently stole potentially thousands of emails a day by adding a single line of code that secretly copied outgoing messages to an attacker-controlled address.…
Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer
Japan's largest brewery biz, Asahi, has shut down distribution systems following an online attack, and local drinkers will just have to make do with stocks as they stand.…
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.…
UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
The UK government should consider the possibility of leaving social media platform X, a high-profile minister has suggested.…
Harrods blames its supplier after crims steal 430k customers’ data in fresh attack
Luxury London-based retailer Harrods is facing its second cybersecurity scandal in 2025, confirming criminals not only stole 430,000 customers' data in a fresh attack but have even made contact.…
Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown
The UK government is stepping in with financial support for Jaguar Land Rover, providing it with a hefty loan as it continues to battle the fallout from a cyberattack.…
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us
Opinion UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer directly addressed his new policy of mandatory digital ID in the country for 23 seconds in its effective launch speech.…
Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report
Feature The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly dying a few weeks later. 167 years on, the undersea cables connecting the UK to the outside world process £220 billion in daily financial transactions. Now, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has told the government that it has to do a better job of protecting them.…
When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent
Opinion Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train an LLM to hide destructive behavior from its users, and how to find it before it triggered. The answers were unambiguously asymmetric — the first is easy, the second very difficult. Not what anyone wanted to hear.…
Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs
US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…
Dutch teen duo arrested over alleged 'Wi-Fi sniffing' for Russia
Infosec In Brief Police in the Netherlands arrested two 17-year-olds last week over claims that Russian intelligence recruited them to spy on the headquarters of European law enforcement agencies.…
Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline
Asia In Brief Over 600 e-government services operated by South Korea’s government are offline after a datacenter fire disrupted operations.…
Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign
RedNovember, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberspy group, targeted government and critical private-sector networks around the globe between June 2024 and July 2025, exploiting buggy internet-facing appliances to deploy a Go-based backdoor called Pantegana and other offensive security tools, including Cobalt Strike and SparkRAT.…
Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up
Analysis Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions of dollars, a revamped LLM lineup, and plans for AI datacenters in Europe. But it also prompted a flurry of questions over how it will achieve all this in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape, when critical resources are in short supply.…
Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government
Barring a last-minute deal, the US federal government would shut down on Wednesday, October 1, and the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would lapse at the same time, threatening what many consider a critical plank of US cybersecurity policy.…
Microsoft spots fresh XCSSET malware strain hiding in Apple dev projects
The long-running XCSSET malware strain has evolved again, with Microsoft warning of a new macOS variant that expands its bag of tricks while continuing to target developers.…
Salesforce facing multiple lawsuits after Salesloft breach
Salesforce is facing a wave of lawsuits in the wake of a cyberattack that exposed customer data.…
‘An attacker's playground:’ Crims exploit GoAnywhere perfect-10 bug
Security researchers have confirmed that threat actors have exploited the maximum-severity vulnerability affecting Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT), and chastised the vendor for a lack of transparency.…
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