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...
cybersecurity
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...
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...
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...
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...
Uk Online Safety Act ‘not Up To Scratch’ On Misinformation, Warn Mps
The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the...
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...
French Cops Cuff Russian Pro Basketball Player On Ransomware Charges
A Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of...
Telefónica Germany Offloads Vmware Support To Spinnaker Due To High Renewalcosts
The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted...
Trump Tariffs Turn Techies Topsy Turvy As Us Braces For Pc Tax
Tariff uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump still hangs over the PC industry despite manufacturers navigating a "complex regulatory...
At Last, A Use Case For Ai Agents With Sky High Roi: Stealing Crypto
Using AI models to generate exploits for cryptocurrency contract flaws appears to be a promising business model, though not necessarily...
Outlook Takes Another Sick Day
updated Microsoft Outlook was down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the more...
