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Akamai CEO wants help to defeat piracy, reckons he can handle edge AI alone
Interview After Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently threatened to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not disrupting pirate video streams, rival CDN provider Akamai’s CEO Dr. Tom Leighton fired back with what reads a lot like thinly veiled criticism.…
Broker who sold malware to the FBI set for sentencing
A Jordanian national faces sentencing in the US after pleading guilty to acting as an initial access broker (IAB) for various cyberattacks.…
Don't underestimate pro-Russia hacktivists, warns UK's cyber crew
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is once again warning that pro-Russia hacktivists are a threat to critical services operators.…
Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control
Microsoft has rushed out an out-of-band Windows 11 update after January's Patch Tuesday broke something as fundamental as turning PCs off.…
Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records
Ingram Micro disclosed that a July 2025 ransomware attack compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of employees.…
UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids
The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.…
Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT
A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff will return to classrooms with "very limited access" to IT systems.…
Royal Navy's helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight
The Royal Navy has conducted the first flight of a helicopter-sized autonomous drone that is planned to operate from its ships in support of missions, including hunting for hostile submarines.…
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of “Who Me?”, The Register’s Monday column that shares your mistakes and celebrates your escapes.…
Microsoft hiring energy strategists to power its Asian datacenters
Asia In Brief Microsoft is hiring senior managers to ensure its datacenters in Asia can access the energy they need.…
Mandiant releases quick credential cracker, to hasten the death of a bad protocol
Infosec In Brief PLUS: Google’s security outfit Mandiant last week released tools that can crack credentials in 12 hours, in the hope that doing so will accelerate the death of an ancient Microsoft security protocol.…
Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack
Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google's Fast Pair system that allows attackers to seize control without the owner ever touching the pairing button.…
Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
We're not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn't want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft's January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.…
German cops add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list
German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware.…
RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug
A critical HPE OneView flaw is now being exploited at scale, with Check Point tying mass, automated attacks to the RondoDox botnet.…
Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all
An Estonian e-scooter owner locked out of his own ride after the manufacturer went bust did what any determined engineer might do. He reverse-engineered it, and claims he ended up discovering the master key that unlocks every scooter the company ever sold.…
Probably not the best security in the world: Carlsberg wristbands spill visitor pics
Exclusive The Carlsberg exhibition in Copenhagen offers a bunch of fun activities, like blending your own beer, and the Danish brewer lets you relive those memories by making images available to download after the tour is over.…
Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks
Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.…
Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies
What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.…
Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln
If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a vulnerability in AMD CPUs that exposes secrets in its secure virtualization environment.…