$380m Lawsuit Claims Intruder Got Clorox’s Passwords From Cognizant Simply Byasking
Clorox is suing its service desk provider, Cognizant, for $380 million in a California state court, alleging the IT support...
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Copilot Vision On Windows 11 Sends Data To Microsoft Servers
Microsoft is again throwing AI at Windows 11 to see what sticks, releasing features including the even more eyebrow-raising successor...
Silicon Valley Engineer Admits Theft Of Us Missile Tech Secrets
A Silicon Valley engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of trade secrets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including...
The Real Reason Why Trump Is Killing The Mauna Loa Observatory In Hawai’i
Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.That's the strategy being...
If You’re Forced To Use Windows 11, Here’s How To Steal Some Of Your Time Back
Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching...
Japan Discovers Object Out Beyond Pluto That Rewrites The Planet 9 Theory
Asia In Brief Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory last week announced the discovery of a small body with an orbit beyond...
Selling Your Digital Soul To Use Bluesky’s Dms Isn’t Just A Bad Idea, It’s Thelaw
Opinion On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users,...
I Just Deleted My Entire Social Media Presence Before Visiting The Us – And I’ma Citizen
Column We don't want to believe what we deeply understand: nothing is really deleted, and someone, somewhere can (and probably...
Retailer Co Op: Attackers Snatched All 6.5m Member Records
Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during...
Uk To Ban Ransomware Payments By Public Sector Organizations
The UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware...
Vibe Coding Service Replit Deleted User’s Production Database, Faked Data, Toldfibs Galore
The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions...
Amd Warns Of New Meltdown, Spectre Like Bugs Affecting Cpus
AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that...
Security Company Hired A Used Car Salesman To Build A Website, And It Didn’t Endwell
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror...
Massive Browser Hijacking Campaign Infects 2.3m Chrome, Edge Users
updated A Chrome and Edge extension with more than 100,000 downloads that displays Google's verified badge does what it purports...
How To Trick Chatgpt Into Revealing Windows Keys? I Give Up
A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one...
Ai Coding Tools Make Developers Slower But They Think They’re Faster, Studyfinds
Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized,...
You Have A Fake North Korean It Worker Problem Here’s How To Stop It
By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any...
Tim Cook’s Tim Cook Stepping Down From Apple
Apple Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is stepping down from his role next month and leaving the company later this...
Us Sanctions Alleged North Korean It Sweatshop Leader
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the...
Yes, I Wrote A Very Expensive Bug. In My Defense I Was Only Seven Years Old Atthe Time
Who, Me? Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing...
Qantas Begins Telling Some Customers That Mystery Attackers Have Their Homeaddress
Qantas says that when cybercrooks attacked a "third party platform" used by the airline's contact center systems, they accessed the...
Ingram Micro Restarts Orders – For Some – Following Ransomware Attack
Ingram Micro says it is gradually reactivating customer's ordering capabilities across the world, region by region, now its ransomware attack...
Ex Asml Engineer Who Stole Chip Tech For Russia Gets Three Years In Dutch Prison
A former ASML and NXP semiconductor engineer will spend three years in a Dutch prison after stealing secret chip technology...
Nca Arrests Four In Connection With Uk Retail Ransomware Attacks
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved in the big three cyberattacks on UK...
