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UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 13:05
Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched

The British government has finally given more details about the proposed digital ID project, directly responding to the 2.76 million naysayers that signed an online petition calling for it to be ditched.…

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Oracle tells Clop-targeted EBS users to apply July patch, problem solved

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 12:38
Researchers suggest internet-facing portals are exposing 'thousands' of orgs

Oracle has finally broken its silence on those Clop-linked extortion emails, but only to tell customers what they already should have known: patch your damn systems.…

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Criminals take Renault UK customer data for a joyride

The Register - Fri, 03/10/2025 - 09:55
Names, numbers, and reg plates exposed in latest auto industry cyber-shunt

Renault UK customers are being warned their personal data may be in criminal hands after one of its supplier was hacked.…

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Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 18:04
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order

A software platform used by law enforcement agencies and major tech companies to manage subpoenas and data requests went dark this week after attackers socially engineered AWS into freezing its domain.…

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Clop-linked crims shake down Oracle execs with data theft claims

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 13:45
Extortion emails name-drop Big Red's E-Business Suite, though Google and Mandiant yet to find proof of any breach

Criminals with potential links to the notorious Clop ransomware mob are bombarding Oracle execs with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Big Red's E-Business Suite, according to researchers.…

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EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 13:02
Experts say Commission is ‘fanning the flames’ of the continent’s own Watergate

An arsenal of angry European Parliament members (MEPs) is demanding answers from senior commissioners about why EU subsidies are ending up in the pockets of spyware companies.…

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Cybercrims claim raid on 28,000 Red Hat repos, say they have sensitive customer files

The Register - Thu, 02/10/2025 - 10:25
570GB of data claimed to be stolen by the Crimson Collective

A hacking crew claims to have broken into Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating some 570GB of compressed data, including sensitive documents belonging to customers. …

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US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 20:48
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register

The US government shut down at 1201 ET on October 1, halting non-essential IT modernization and leaving cybersecurity operations to run on skeleton crews.…

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'Delightful' root-access bug in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows full cluster takeover

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 20:35
Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?

A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.…

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Air Force admits SharePoint privacy issue as reports trickle out of possible breach

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 18:51
Uncle Sam can't quit Redmond

Exclusive  The US Air Force confirmed it's investigating a "privacy-related issue" amid reports of a Microsoft SharePoint-related breach and subsequent service-wide shutdown, rendering mission files and other critical tools potentially unavailable to service members.…

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3.7M breach notification letters set to flood North America's mailboxes

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 13:24
Allianz Life and WestJet lead the way, along with a niche software shop

A trio of companies disclosed data breaches this week affecting approximately 3.7 million customers and employees across North America.…

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Autonomous AI adoption stalls amid trust and governance crisis

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 12:25
Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

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Imgur yanks Brit access to memes as parent company faces fine

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 11:07
ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues

The UK's data watchdog has described Imgur's move to block UK users as "a commercial decision" after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab.…

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Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 10:13
Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead

UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him to put meat on the bones of the plans or risk it failing fast.…

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Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 09:50
Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage

Schools and colleges hit by cyberattacks are taking longer to restore their networks — and the consequences are severe, with students' coursework being permanently lost in some cases.…

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Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers

The Register - Wed, 01/10/2025 - 03:59
‘Phantom Taurus’ created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East

Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a new variety of malware.…

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Fake North Korean IT workers sneaking into healthcare, finance, and AI

The Register - Tue, 30/09/2025 - 23:20
It's not just big tech anymore

The North Korean IT worker threat extends well beyond tech companies, with fraudsters interviewing at a "surprising" number of healthcare orgs, according to Okta Threat Intelligence.…

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Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

The Register - Tue, 30/09/2025 - 22:32
Plaintext transmissions, fixed MAC addresses, rotating 'unique' IDs, and more, make abuse easy

Tile Bluetooth trackers leak identifying data in plain text, giving stalkers an easy way to track victims despite Life360's security promises, a group of Georgia Tech researchers warns.…

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Google bolts AI into Drive to catch ransomware, but crooks not shaking yet

The Register - Tue, 30/09/2025 - 21:10
Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period

Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it won't stop attacks outright.…

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Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears

The Register - Tue, 30/09/2025 - 17:09
50,000 firewall devices still exposed

Nearly 50,000 Cisco ASA/FTD instances vulnerable to two bugs that are actively being exploited by "advanced" attackers remain exposed to the internet, according to Shadowserver data.…

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