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Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

5 hours 1 min ago
Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck

Hundreds of Porsches in Russia were rendered immobile last week, raising speculation of a hack, but the German carmaker tells The Register that its vehicles are secure.…

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As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs

7 hours 18 min ago
Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows?

Interview  Imagine botnets in physical form and you've got a pretty good idea of what could go wrong with the influx of AI-infused humanoid robots expected to integrate into society over the next few decades.…

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UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now

9 hours 29 min ago
Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today

The UK's foreign secretary is calling for closer collaboration with Europe to combat the growing threat of information warfare as hybrid attacks target countries on the continent.…

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UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act

12 hours 3 min ago
As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law

Portugal has become the latest country to carve out protections for researchers under its cybersecurity law.…

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Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost

12 hours 48 min ago
Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year

The head of the department delivering the UK government's digital identity scheme has rejected the £1.8 billion cost forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), but is not willing to provide an alternative until after a delayed consultation on the plans.…

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Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks

15 hours 37 min ago
Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people

Researchers at security software vendor Huntress say they’ve noticed a huge increase in ransomware attacks on hypervisors and urged users to ensure they’re as secure as can be and properly backed up.…

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193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service'

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 18:45
Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims

Nearly 200 people, including minors accused of involvement in murder plots, have been arrested over the last six months as part of Europol's Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM. The operation targets what cops call "violence-as-a-service" - crime crews recruiting kids and teens online to carry out contract killings and other real-world attacks.…

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UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 14:00
Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance

The UK government has announced enhanced protection for undersea cables using autonomous vessels alongside crewed warships and aircraft, responding to escalating Russian surveillance activities.…

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Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 12:16
Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement

The UK's data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition technology, despite regular engagement between the organizations.…

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Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 11:12
Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul

Barts Health NHS Trust has confirmed that patient and staff data was stolen in Clop's mass-exploitation of Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS), and says it is now taking legal action in an effort to stop the gang publishing any of the snatched information.…

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Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 04:57
Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

Agentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

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China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 01:56
PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more

Asia In Brief  Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first reusable rocket, only to watch it explode while attempting to land.…

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Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool

Mon, 08/12/2025 - 00:10
PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more!

Infosec in Brief  The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.…

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Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

Sat, 06/12/2025 - 09:11
Wanna know a secret?

Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.…

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Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams

Fri, 05/12/2025 - 23:23
Proof of life? Or an active social media presence?

Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and extortion scams, the FBI warned on Friday. …

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Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG

Fri, 05/12/2025 - 21:55
Who needs JavaScript?

Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).…

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Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln

Fri, 05/12/2025 - 21:46
Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says

Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Cloudflare's technology chief said his company took down its own network, forcing a widespread outage early Friday, to patch React2Shell.…

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Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul

Fri, 05/12/2025 - 14:51
Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems

Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan's internal files.…

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Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns

Fri, 05/12/2025 - 14:10
State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time

Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React "React2Shell" vulnerability within hours of disclosure, turning a theoretical CVSS-10 hole into a live-fire incident almost immediately.…

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UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

Fri, 05/12/2025 - 11:14
Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance

The UK government has kicked off plans to ramp up police use of facial recognition, undeterred by a mounting civil liberties backlash and fresh warnings that any expansion risks turning public spaces into biometric dragnets.…

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