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Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates

The Register - Thu, 17/07/2025 - 07:30
It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing

Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.…

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Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 20:55
'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'

Ukrainian hackers claim to have taken out the IT infrastructure at Russia's Gaskar Integration plant, one of the largest suppliers of drones for its army, and also destroyed massive amounts of technical data related to drone production. …

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Operation Eastwood shutters 100+ servers used to DDoS websites supporting Ukraine

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 19:15
Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out

International cops shut down more than 100 servers belonging to the pro-Russian NoName057(16) network this week as part of the Europol-led Operation Eastwood.…

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Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 15:00
Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark

Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

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Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 12:20
Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail

Co-op Group's chief executive officer has confirmed that all 6.5 million of the organization's members had their data stolen during its April cyberattack - Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the digital heist.…

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Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 11:14
Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory

Exclusive  Aviation insiders say Serbia's national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling.…

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Security shop Adarma ceases trading, confirms it will enter administration

The Register - Wed, 16/07/2025 - 09:27
Former staffers of struggling UK biz say they don’t expect to be paid for July

UK cybersecurity shop Adarma has confirmed it has entered administration.…

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Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

The Register - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 23:59
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

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Ex-US soldier who Googled 'can hacking be treason' pleads guilty to extortion

The Register - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 23:05
File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime

A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million.…

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Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything

The Register - Tue, 15/07/2025 - 09:30
Stealth jets can't fight, can't fly much, and can't shoot UK missiles, says NAO

The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft's effectiveness.…

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Someone hijacked Elmo's X account to post antisemitic rants

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 22:43
Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'…

Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and anti-Trump posts.…

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Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 21:02
Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

The Rowhammer attack on computer memory is back, and for the first time, it's able to mess with bits in Nvidia GPUs, despite defenses designed to protect against this kind of hacking.…

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A software-defined radio can derail a US train by slamming the brakes on remotely

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 18:42
Neil Smith has been trying to get the railroad industry to listen since 2012, but it took a CISA warning to get there

When independent security researcher Neil Smith reported a vulnerability in a comms standard used by trains to the US government in 2012, he most likely didn't expect it would take until 2025 to sort the matter out, but here we are. …

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GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 11:21
Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats

Britain and France are to work more closely on technology to back up the familiar Global Positioning System (GPS), which is increasingly subject to interference in many regions around the world.…

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UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 09:37
Report on serious organized crime fails to account for differences, agency says

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit back at a think tank after it assessed its US counterpart, the FBI, to be nearly three times more effective.…

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Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 06:15
Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing

The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITOI), the government body that develops and implements IT services for the country, is looking for suppliers of cloud computing.…

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Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks

The Register - Mon, 14/07/2025 - 00:46
PLUS: Bluetooth mess leaves cars exposed; Bitcoin ATMs attacked; Deepfakers imitate US secretary of state Marco Rubio; and more

Infosec In Brief  Nvidia last week advised customers to ensure they employ mitigations against Rowhammer attacks, after researchers found one of its workstation-grade GPUs is susceptible to the exploit.…

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You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem - here's how to stop it

The Register - Sun, 13/07/2025 - 12:02
Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.…

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CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 19:15
Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack - rookie errors kept damage minimal

Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on July 1, just one day after its public disclosure.…

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UK Online Safety Act 'not up to scratch' on misinformation, warn MPs

The Register - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 11:31
Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal

The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report from MPs has found.…

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