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Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence

The Register - 1 hour 28 min ago
Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue

Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.…

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One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101

The Register - 2 hours 46 min ago
Kept quiet for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivalled advocate' for the site

Obit  Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.…

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Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes

The Register - 6 hours 10 min ago
Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes

Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.…

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North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers

The Register - 6 hours 25 min ago
With help from UK operatives, because it’s getting tougher to run the scam in the USA

North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.…

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Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

The Register - 10 hours 47 min ago
But his emails! Sharing them with Google!

Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.…

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Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition

The Register - Tue, 01/04/2025 - 16:32
Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer

Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?…

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Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users

The Register - Tue, 01/04/2025 - 14:00
The UK government must be thrilled

Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins.…

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UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill

The Register - Tue, 01/04/2025 - 12:37
Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time

The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.…

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GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

The Register - Tue, 01/04/2025 - 09:51
Not exactly Snowden levels of skill

A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.…

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CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw

The Register - Tue, 01/04/2025 - 02:09
Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug

Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.…

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Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes

The Register - Tue, 01/04/2025 - 00:16
Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence

A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.…

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Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence vanishes

The Register - Mon, 31/03/2025 - 22:30
1990s incident response in 2025

Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.…

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Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims

The Register - Mon, 31/03/2025 - 17:35
Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher

A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.…

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Cloud security explained: What’s left exposed?

The Register - Mon, 31/03/2025 - 11:00
Think AWS has security covered? Think again. Discover real-world examples of what it doesn’t secure and how to protect your environment

Advertorial  AWS customers might assume that security is taken care of for them - however, this is a dangerous misconception.…

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China cracks down on personal information collection. No, seriously

The Register - Mon, 31/03/2025 - 01:30
PLUS: Indonesia crimps social media, allows iPhones; India claims rocket boost; In-flight GenAI for Japan Airlines

Asia In Brief  China last week commenced a crackdown on inappropriate collection and subsequent use of personal information.…

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Oracle Health reportedly warns of info leak from legacy server

The Register - Sun, 30/03/2025 - 23:45
PLUS: OpenAI bumps bug bounties bigtime; INTERPOL arrests 300 alleged cyber-scammers; And more!

Infosec in brief  Oracle Health appears to have fallen victim to an info stealing attack that has led to patient data stored by American hospitals being plundered.…

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Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel

The Register - Sat, 29/03/2025 - 10:50
Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection

Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell.…

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Cardiff's children's chief confirms data leak 2 months after cyber risk was 'escalated'

The Register - Fri, 28/03/2025 - 12:28
Department director admits Welsh capital's council still trying to get heads around threat of dark web leaks

Cardiff City Council's director of children's services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered.…

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After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug

The Register - Fri, 28/03/2025 - 06:34
Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows

Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to target certain folks in Russia.…

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Cyber-crew claims it cracked American cableco, releases terrible music video to prove it

The Register - Fri, 28/03/2025 - 01:17
WOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?!

A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)…

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