BlackCat attack sparks injunction preventing coverage of purloined docs An infosec incident at a major Australian law firm has sparked fear among the nation's governments, banks and businesses – and a free speech debate.... [...]
Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible In the murky world of political and corporate spin, announcing bad news on Friday afternoon – a time when few media outlets are watching, and audiences are at a low ebb – is called "taking out the trash …
Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible In the murky world of political and corporate spin, announcing bad news on Friday afternoon – a time when few media outlets are watching, and audiences are at a low ebb – is called "taking out the trash …
And compile a list of vendors considered threats to national security The UK government will set a deadline for removing made-in-China surveillance cameras from "sensitive sites."... [...]
Commanders in the field persuaded to give up, let their guard down, run around and desert their posts Australia's Signals Directorate, the signals intelligence organization, has revealed it employed zero-click attacks on devices used by fighters for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) – then unleashed the terrifying …
US, South Korea, warn 'Kimsuky' is a very sophisticated social engineer The United States and the Republic of Korea have issued a joint cyber security advisory [PDF] about North Koreas "Kimsuky" cyber crime group.... [...]
Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick! America's Federal Trade Commission has made Amazon a case study for every cautionary tale about how sloppily designed internet-of-things devices and associated services represent a risk to …
Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity China has attacked critical infrastructure organizations in the US using a "living off the land" attack that hides offensive action among everyday Windows admin activity.... [...]
They do your work – usually from Russia and China – then send their wages home to pay for missiles When businesses go shopping for IT services, North Korea-controlled companies probably struggle to make it into many lists.... [...]
US memory-maker forecasts single-digit revenue impact, and ongoing gloom in PC and smartmobe markets US memory-maker Micron has no idea why Chinese authorities have decided its products represent a security risk, or which customers it's not allowed to sell to.... [...]
High school student and Amnesty International named among bug-finders Apple has issued a bushel of security updates and warned that three of the flaws it's fixed are under active attack.... [...]
Smash and grab raids don’t leave time for careful encryption Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often corrupts your data. That in turn means restoration after paying ransoms is often …
In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain India's IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar will ask WhatsApp to explain what's up, after the Meta-owned messaging service experienced a dramatic increase in spam calls.... [...]
Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app Japan's minister for digital transformation and digital reform, Taro Kono, has apologized after a government app breached citizens' privacy.... [...]
Pot, meet kettle, both containing weak sauce The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center of China and local infosec outfit 360 Total Security have conducted an investigation called "The Matrix" that found the CIA conducts offensive cyber ops, and labelled the United States an "Empire of Hacking".... [...]
Combatting it is going to take more money. Lots of more money. China has 50 hackers for every one of the FBI's cyber-centric agents, the Bureau's director told a congressional committee last week.... [...]
Guessing the admin password is cool. Using it, even for good, is dangerous On Call It’s always twelve o’clock somewhere, the saying goes, but Friday comes around but once a week and only this day does The Register offer a fresh instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed …
Charges laid against 44, including officers of China’s Cyberspace Administration The United States Department of Justice has charged 44 people over schemes prosecutors allege were run by China’s National Police to silence opponents of the Communist Party of China.... [...]
A rather nice beach in Australia now has a rather unusual and hopefully temporary feature An Australian military helicopter crash was reportedly caused by failure to apply a software patch, with a hefty side serving of pilot error.... [...]
The punishment – Windows 98 administration chores – was far worse than the crime Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who Me? The Register ’s confessional column in which readers admit to being the source of SNAFUs.... [...]
As Mandiant finds more evidence it was North Korea wot done it The CEO of VoIP software provider 3CX has teased the imminent release of a security-focused upgrade to the company’s progressive web application client.... [...]
Operation Cookie Monster crumbles stolen data-as-a-service vendor A notorious source of stolen credentials, genesis.market, has had its website seized by the FBI.... [...]
Blokes happily bluffed; women played it by the book, leaving the bank struggling to hire Australia's Westpac bank re-wrote its job ads for infosec roles after finding the language it used deterred female candidates.... [...]
Mandiant identifies 'moderately sophisticated' but 'prolific' APT43 as global menace Google Cloud's recently acquired security outfit Mandiant has named a new nasty from North Korea: a cyber crime gang it calls APT43 and accuses of a five-year rampage.... [...]
'Intel inside' a suspiciously baggy t-shirt gave the game away – as did a truckload of parts International Talk Like a Pirate Day is still months away – circle September 19 on your calendar, me hearties! – but The Register has found news of technology smuggling in China that suggests a buccaneering …