UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control [...]
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Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry
Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey [...]
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk' [...]
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing? [...]
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness [...]
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive [...]
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries [...]
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style [...]
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'
Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills' [...]
Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services
Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose? [...]
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work [...]
Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks
Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file [...]
OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark
Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop [...]
Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush
RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations [...]
OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon
Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites [...]
JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns [...]
Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments [...]
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes [...]
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline [...]
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast [...]
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
Data theft and extortion biz, that is [...]
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app [...]
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime... to the surprise of nobody [...]
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record. [...]
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
Operator’s AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan [...]
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