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Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors

The Register - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 12:03
Students have work to complete at home in the meantime

A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.…

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Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior

The Register - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 07:23
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs

Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.…

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Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

The Register - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 05:27
PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more

Infosec in brief  Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.…

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When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight

The Register - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 03:30
PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company

Asia In Brief  When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.…

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Donald Trump proposes US government acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

The Register - Mon, 20/01/2025 - 00:15
Incoming president promises to allow ongoing operations for 90 days just as made-in-China app started to go dark

US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…

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OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

The Register - Sun, 19/01/2025 - 19:03
The S in LLM stands for Security

OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.…

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FCC to telcos: Did you know you must by law secure your networks from foreign spies?

The Register - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 22:07
Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping

Decades-old legislation requiring American telcos to lock down their systems to prevent foreign snoops from intercepting communications isn't mere decoration on the pages of law books – it actually means carriers need to secure their networks, the FCC has huffed.…

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Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it

The Register - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 20:23
Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive

Analysis  Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in scope as it is late in the game.…

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Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading

The Register - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 18:32
Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year

Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.…

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Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban

The Register - Fri, 17/01/2025 - 17:15
With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over

updated  The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban in the United States. The decision eliminates the final legal obstacle to the federal government forcing a shutdown of the platform on January 19.…

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