The Tories have pledged to kick under-16s off social media, betting that banning teens from TikTok and Instagram will fix what they see as a

India’s government has denied that it is working on rules that would require smartphone manufacturers to provide access to their source code. A Sunday report

Asia in Brief The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have suspended access to social network X, on grounds that it allows users to produce sexual

infosec in brief Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem

ANALYSIS From May’s cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.

While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for

France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia. The prisoner swap occurred Thursday,

North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into credential-stealing weapons, the FBI has warned, as Pyongyang’s spies find new ways to duck enterprise security

Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public.

Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI

On Call 2025 has ended and a new year is upon us, but The Register will continue opening Friday mornings with a fresh installment of

CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle

Cisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to

Interview With everyone from would-be developers to six-year-old kids jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon, it shouldn’t be surprising that criminals like automated coding tools

If 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody appears to have told the attackers. In its 2025 State of Ransomware in

CISA has added a pair of security holes to its actively exploited list, warning that attackers are now abusing a maximum-severity bug in HPE’s OneView

Elon Musk’s X platform is under fire as UK regulators close in on mounting reports that the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, is generating sexual imagery

A maximum-severity bug in the popular automation platform n8n has left an estimated 100,000 servers wide open to complete takeover, courtesy of a flaw so