02 Sep

Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

Huawei’s business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from

Author rabih
02 Sep

Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk

Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world’s largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have

Author rabih
02 Sep

Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed

Author rabih
02 Sep

Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that

Author rabih
02 Sep

In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception

Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.

Author rabih
01 Sep

Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships

Norway has ordered British-made Type 26 frigates in a contract valued at roughly £10 billion to the UK economy, but this may delay the introduction

Author rabih
01 Sep

DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off

Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn’t pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the

Author rabih
01 Sep

LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print

Researchers at security firm Pangea have discovered yet another way to trivially trick large language models (LLMs) into ignoring their guardrails. Stick your adversarial instructions

Author rabih
01 Sep

Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks

Internet traffic to government domains often flows across borders, relies on a worryingly small number of network connections, or does not require encryption, according to

Author rabih
01 Sep

WhatsApp warns of ‘attack against specific targeted users’

Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta’s WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.” Meta made that alarming

Author rabih
29 Aug

Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots

A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and

Author rabih
29 Aug

AWS catches Russia’s Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials

Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia’s APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts

Author rabih
29 Aug

Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug

Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of

Author rabih
29 Aug

UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout

Senior officials are being summoned to the UK’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations

Author rabih
28 Aug

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned ‘nearly every American’

China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications

Author rabih
28 Aug

DHS says it needs $100M worth of counter-drone tech to protect America

The US Department of Homeland Security has revealed plans to spend more than $100 million on systems designed to take out hostile drones.   While not

Author rabih
28 Aug

Not in my browser! Vivaldi capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norway-based browser maker Vivaldi, believes the tech industry’s efforts to automate web browsing using generative AI models have gone too

Author rabih
28 Aug

FBI, Dutch cops seize fake ID marketplace that sold identity docs for $9

The FBI and Dutch police today said that they seized two domains and a blog tied to VerifTools, an international criminal marketplace that sold identity

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