Co-written by Catherine Huang, Ph.D. and Abhishek Karnik  Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to evolve and has made huge progress over the last decade. AI shapes our daily lives. Deep learning is a subset of techniques in AI that extract patterns from data using

In brief If your Git operations start failing on Friday, August 13 with GitHub, it may well be because you’re still using password authentication –

Analysis Julian Assange has lost a legal scrap in court, this time over the US government’s attempt to expand its grounds for extraditing him from

Over the past few years, food delivery apps have made it easy for people to get their favorite cuisines brought to their doorsteps. In 2020, consumers

Webcast Being hit by ransomware is gut wrenching enough, but it’ll be ten times worse if it coincides with the realization that your data protection

Outsourcing and accounting firm Accenture has been struck by Lockbit ransomware. The ransom note, posted on the dark web and seen by The Register, said:

The number of COVID cases in the US and elsewhere is again rising, thanks to the Delta Variant, lagging vaccination rates, and mask resistance among

Singapore pay YV, internet and mobile phone provider StarHub is in the process of notifying 57,191 customers via email that they are victims of a

Whoever drained roughly $600m in cryptocurrencies from Poly Network is said to have returned at least $260m so far. The cyber super-heist, revealed yesterday, was

As outlined in Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (EO 14028), Section 3: Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity, CISA has been tasked with developing a

For some, vanquishing aliens, building virtual amusement parks, and online battles royale are an excellent stress reliever. As we all know, over the past year there’s been plenty of stress to relieve

For years, NIST has been conducting research in the areas of human-centered design and evaluation, usable cybersecurity, public safety communication technology, augmented-reality usability, biometrics usability,

Microsoft appears intent on turning the print spooler remote code execution vulnerability known as “PrintNightmare” into an AdminNightmare, judging by its latest mitigation, which requires

The last in our series on IIS threats introduces a malicious IIS extension used to manipulate page rankings for third-party websites ESET researchers have discovered

Security vendor FireEye says it has spotted a Chinese espionage group that successfully compromised targets within Israel, and that trying to make its efforts look

The discussions between security vendors NortonLifelock and Avast that The Register reported had reached an advanced stage in July have proved fruitful, to the tune

Computer science boffins have devised a way to prevent the location of mobile phone users from being snarfed and sold to marketers, though the technique

Poly Network, a Chinese biz that handles transactions across various blockchains, urged thieves to return $600m of digital cash stolen from it in what it