A couple have already been jailed, others shown the door for embezzling or arranging sham contracts Chinese web and gaming giant Tencent has admitted it fired more than 100 people in 2022 for various forms of corruption – some so serious it reported them to local police.... [...]
Optimistically suggests international collaboration – including on standards – will help it get there China's government has declared the nation's information security industry needs to grow – fast.... [...]
Security was nonetheless very, very, interested in hearing this comms engineer tell his tale On-Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register 's weekly compendium of tales from readers who were asked to deal with IT oddities and mostly emerged unscathed.... [...]
Enhanced access privileges for partners choke on double-byte characters, contribute to global delays Microsoft has messed up a zero trust upgrade its service provider partners have been asked to implement for customers.... [...]
Zurich’s Japanese outpost also leaks a couple of million records Global insurer Aflac's Japanese branch has revealed that personal data describing more than three million customers of its cancer insurance product has been leaked online.... [...]
Advice follows embarrassing leak of audio from Prime Minister’s office Pakistan’s government has warned its agencies that the dark web exists, is home to all sorts of unpleasant people, and should be avoided.... [...]
Thankfully a well encrypted copy that could take an eon to crack, unless users practiced bad password hygiene Password locker LastPass has warned customers that the August 2022 attack on its systems saw unknown parties copy encrypted files that contains the passwords to their accounts.... [...]
Good thing space agency doesn’t have any state secrets... oh, hang on The NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published its annual audit of the aerospace agency's infosec capabilities and practices, which earned an overall rating of "Not Effective."... [...]
Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator Australia's e-safety commissioner, a government agency charged with keeping citizens safe online, has delivered a report on seven tech platforms' mechanisms to protect children from online sexual abuse – and found most don't respond quickly, or have the …
Yet more pain for the software formerly known as NetScaler The China-linked crime gang APT5 is already attacking a flaw in Citrix's Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway products that the vendor patched today.... [...]
Turns a $100 bottle of wine into a $4 soft drink to avoid tax, earning probe by major governments Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into "electronic sales suppression software" – applications that falsify point of sale data to help …
Comrade offered 'monitoring' tool to keep an eye on the workers On Call Welcome once again, comrades, to On-Call, The Register 's celebration of the tech proletariat's struggles with oppression by bourgeois bosses – and the eventual triumph of the workers!... [...]
You won't see 'Agent of vile murderous autocracy' on their CVs. Or their faces on vid chats North Korean IT pros are using freelancing platforms to earn money that the nation's authoritarian government uses to fund the development of missiles and nuclear weapons, according to South Korea's government. Seoul …
Evil, pure and simple North Korea has hit a new low, using the death of over 150 people to exploit a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer.... [...]
New Zealand government reels, Vanuatu’s spent weeks entirely offline New Zealand's Privacy Commission has signalled it may open an investigation into local managed services provider Mercury IT, which serves many government agencies and businesses and has been hit by ransomware.... [...]
Hosting company has nothing to say on data loss, restore times, or root cause Rackspace has not offered any explanation of the "security incident" that has taken out its hosted Exchange environment and led the company to predict multiple days of downtime before restoration.... [...]
Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints Updated Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a “security incident”.... [...]
Warns recovery could take several days as customers complain support is not picking up the phone Updated Some of Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken down by what the company has described as a “security incident”.... [...]
No amount of resilience planning can defeat determined idiots whose devices are low on battery On Call Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register 's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of IT pros being asked to fix things that should never have broken.... [...]
Teams with locals to allow consistent security policy to make it through the Great Firewall Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China.... [...]
Maybe – just maybe – messages and calls from +91 might become more trustworthy India's Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has announced a fresh crackdown on TXT spam – this time using artificial intelligence, after a previous blockchain-powered effort delivered mixed results.... [...]
Part bureaucratic box ticking, part crackdown that makes even Wi-Fi routers and smartphones off limits The United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has barred itself from authorizing the import or sale of Chinese telecoms and video surveillance products from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision, and Dahua, on national security …
Promises restoration of suspended accounts, despite previous pledge to do no such thing Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided to allow suspended accounts back onto the micro-blogging service.... [...]
Agencies told to rip 'em off core networks and replace 'em whenever and wherever possible The United Kingdom has decided Chinese video cameras have no place in government facilities.... [...]
DDoS started not long after Russia was declared a state sponsor of terrorism The European Parliament has experienced a cyber attack that started not long after it declared Russia to be a state sponsor of terrorism.... [...]