NeuralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless…
Lees meerBrussels' plan muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on US hyperscalers is under fire from many of the local cloud providers it is designed to help.…
Lees meerSocial media site dispatches crucial clarification days after curious announcement X (formerly Twitter) sparked security concerns over the weekend when it announced users must re-enroll their security keys by November 10 or face account lockouts — w…
Lees meerNeutralTrust shows how agentic browser can interpret bogus links as trusted user commands Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmles…
Lees meerJen Easterly says most breaches stem from bad software, and smarter tech could finally clean it up Ex-CISA head Jen Easterly claims AI could spell the end of the cybersecurity industry, as the sloppy software and vulnerabilities that criminals rely …
Lees meerAI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes Column AWS put out a hefty analysis of its October 20 outage, and it's apparently written in a continuing stream of consciousness before the Red Bull wore off and the author passed out after 36 stra…
Lees meerPoor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog The UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has saved £4.4 million over three years by using machine learning to tackle fraud, according to the Na…
Lees meerWhen it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer "tech journalist," you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until l…
Lees meerFour back-to-back weekends of work – and disastrously bad documentation – will do that do a techie Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that…
Lees meerFOSS feud re-ignites with massive counter-claim The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”…
Lees meerPLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for all…
Lees meerPLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for all…
Lees meerAllows surveillance and cross-border evidence sharing, which worries human rights groups The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72…
Lees meerPLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more! Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for all…
Lees meerPLUS: Judge spanks NSO; Mozilla requires data use disclosures; TARmageddon meets Rust; And more! Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1" (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his…
Lees meer31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and il…
Lees meerCommittee says Apple, Google, and Samsung could render stolen handsets worthless if compelled to act The UK's Home Secretary should use her powers to push the tech industry to deploy stronger technical measures against the surge in phone thefts, acc…
Lees meerRedmond says it's fixed this particular indirect prompt injection vuln updated Microsoft fixed a security hole in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed attackers to trick the AI assistant into stealing sensitive tenant data – like emails – via indirec…
Lees meerCritical 9.8-rated vulnerability affects Windows Server 2012 - 2025 Governments and private security sleuths warned that attackers are already exploiting a critical bug in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, shortly after Redmond pushed an eme…
Lees meer31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and il…
Lees meerIf you listen closely, you’ll realize Sam Altman and the others are only saying sound-alike words Guardrails? What guardrails? Naughty netizens found a way to trick the Sora 2 video generator into producing deepfakes of public figures, including Ope…
Lees meer