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

CYBER-CRIME Another one bites the dust Some 1.6 million unique email addresses tied to RingCentral have been leaked online, alongside names, physical addresses, and phone

Security Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage France’s tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data

In early July, attackers used open source AI agents to autonomously hack government systems and energy companies, signaling to defenders that AI-powered attacks against critical

Security Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down Cryptocurrency hardware wallet

SECURITY Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected Scotland’s public prosecution service has warned 300 staff that their

SECURITY Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) has claimed Chinese

Ai and ML ‘Computer History’ records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send

Donald Trump is allowing government agencies to contract private cybersecurity companies to carry out operations against cyber-enabled transnational criminal organizations (CE-TCOs). The US President signed

Confidence in an organization’s cyber recovery capabilities deserves scrutiny. If a ransomware attack disables the SaaS data tenanted in the Microsoft cloud ecosystem, the data

Business Security And will today’s surge in AI-driven vulnerability discovery eventually make tomorrow’s software safer? Tony Anscombe 13 Aug 2026  •  , 3 min. read

Security CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form Beacon, a CRM provider for charities and nonprofits, says an AWS

Business Security The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less Tony Anscombe 13 Aug 2026  •  ,