- Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…
- Crims stole 40,000 people's data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises
Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.…
- Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?
Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.…
- Cops want Apple, Google to kill stolen phones remotely – so why won't they?
Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks UK legislators are questioning why Apple and Google have yet to implement measures to allow smartphones to be locked, reset, and prevented from accessing cloud services after they've been stolen, as requested by police.…
- HPE working on Plan B if DoJ nixes the Juniper deal it rates as shareholders' rocket to riches
AI sales are a little 'lumpy' but all things hybrid cloud are going well - including job cuts Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri remains optimistic that US regulators will allow its planned acquisition of Juniper Networks but has admitted the company has considered other plans if regulators nix the deal.…
- UK CyberEM Command to spearhead new era of armed conflict
Government details latest initiative following announcement last week Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says "there are pockets of excellence" but improvements must be made to ensure the country's capability meets the needs of national defense.…
- Need for speed? CityFibre punts 5.5 Gbps symmetrical broadband at ISPs
Altnet claims upgrade puts it ahead of Openreach on performance and cost, with more to come in 2026 Alternative UK network CityFibre has lifted the lid on a 5.5 Gbps wholesale package it says will allow internet service provider (ISP) customers to operate a service more than twice as fast than its current top-speed fiber product.…
- Ukraine war spurred infosec vet Mikko Hyppönen to pivot to drones
Why? There's a war in Europe, Finland has a belligerent neighbor, and cyber is a settled field Interview Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he's moving onto drone warfare.…
- Broadcom aims a Tomahawk at Nvidia's AI networking empire with 102.4T photonic switch
Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and co-packaged optics flavors.…
- ‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator.…
- Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.…
- You say Cozy Bear, I say Midnight Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, APT29 …
Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and pals promise clarity on cybercrew naming, deliver alias salad instead Opinion Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to "bring clarity to threat-actor naming."…
- Meta just saved an Illinois nuclear plant that was set to be mothballed
The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in 2027. …
- Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild
TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day.…
- Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU
Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users to become their default browser if they open it first.…
- X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it
Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a "whole new architecture," but as with many a Muskian proclamation, there's reason to doubt what's been said. …
- Crooks fleece The North Face accounts with recycled logins
Outdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewhere.…
- AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025 In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections."…
- Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Microsoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out User adoption of Windows 11 is slowing down, with the operating system still lagging behind Windows 10 as end of support nears.…
- Engineers bring Psyche's thrusters back online
Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away NASA's Psyche spacecraft is back in business after engineers successfully switched to a backup fuel line in an impressive piece of remote maintenance.…
- Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma
Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception Microsoft is patching another patch that dumped some PCs into recovery mode with an unhelpful error code.…
- Schneider Electric says US grid will be less stable by 2030 as datacenter demand rises
Safety margin set to narrow – yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events The US electricity grid is likely to be highly constrained and less stable by 2030, and datacenters aren't helping.…
- Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs that leave clouds vulnerable
To stop the JINX-0132 gang behind these attacks, pay attention to HashiCorp, Docker, and Gitea security settings Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets publicly accessible DevOps tools.…
- Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs
February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says Workday has promised to rehire the 1,750 jobs it chopped earlier in the year, but in no particular timeframe and with a focus on investments in AI, the CFO has said.…
- Bling slinger Cartier tells customers to be wary of phishing attacks after intrusion
Nothing terribly valuable taken in data heist, though privacy a little tarnished Global jewelry giant Cartier is writing to customers to confirm their data was exposed to cybercriminals that broke into its systems.…
- AI hype fuels pay rise – but only if you're in the right gig
Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims Sectors in which AI can be readily used for some tasks – including the software industry – have seen higher productivity and wage growth than others, according to research by PwC.…
- What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?
That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study The United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS) has found that giving civil service employees access to Microsoft 365 Copilot saved them an average 26 minutes per day on office tasks.…
- Regulator sues product comparison site alleged to only compare products on which it earned commission
No wonder those products always rated so highly Australia’s Securities & Investments Commission has sued a product comparison website that it alleges only considered products from a related company.…
- Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong
Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye Atlassian has notified its customers of a new “maximum quantity billing” scheme that is good news for those who want more of its wares, but less fun for others.…
- IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight
Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented from controlling or creating resources.…
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