Security Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print Comcast has folded its Wi-Fi-based intruder detection feature into Xfinity Shield, a

Credit: Shutterstock Credit: Kristina Rigopoulos, NIST Recent cyberattacks highlight the growing threat to operational technology (OT) used in critical infrastructure. Whether you work for an

cyber-crime Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties Australian aparthotel chain Quest has revealed it leaked customer data.

ai and ml Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive OpenAI on Tuesday said its decision to suspend model training

security Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again Researchers affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that you can

Security Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks CISA says attackers are exploiting a critical 2025 vulnerability in Ray,

Security Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro Apple has released a batch of vulnerability fixes for iPhones, iPads, and Macs,

Researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into telling them how to hack the AI assistant – eventually tricking it into sending sensitive data to an external

Security Don’t worry, this one was via a bug bounty program An AI broke Snowflake’s code; then another AI, an attack agent, autonomously found the

Credit: Shutterstock When was the last time a cybersecurity process at work made you want to scream? Maybe it was a password requirement so complicated

SECURITY McDonald’s, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials A cybercrook claims to have siphoned millions of employee records from

COLUMNISTS With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that It is the best

Business Security Quishing has become a popular alternative to traditional phishing. Here’s how businesses can close the gap. Phil Muncaster 17 Aug 2026  •  ,

KETTLE Our cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons spent last week in Las Vegas for the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences, and at both events

software Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service Microsoft has blamed extra work created by

ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese company Zhipu last week launched a new AI model called GLM-5.3 that it claims has bug-finding powers that match those possessed

security Corma CEO tells The Reg it’s building ‘One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power’ Corma CEO Alon Pluda

SECURITY Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages