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Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says
An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…
Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees
Comment Microsoft suspects that a "transformative shift" is being driven in personal and enterprise computing by its Copilot+ PCs and an expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem.…
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a tougher mission after new measurements revealed its target asteroid is nearly three times smaller and spinning about twice as fast as originally estimated.…
Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug
Budding ransomware crooks have another shot at exploiting Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT product now that a new 10/10 severity vulnerability needs patching.…
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants
A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. …
Scattered Spider teen cuffed after buying games and meals with extortion bitcoin
Thalha Jubair, one of the two UK teens arrested on Tuesday and accused of being members of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime gang, allegedly played a role in bilking more than 100 organizations out of at least $115 million in ransom payments. The cops nabbed him after following a number of clues, including paying for gift cards from a wallet on the same server that also held wallets receiving extortion payments.…
One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant
A security researcher claims to have found a flaw that could have handed him the keys to almost every Entra ID tenant worldwide.…
Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens
Pope Leo XIV has crucified the idea of creating an AI version which would've allowed Catholics around the world to have a virtual audience with him – without the need for a trip to Vatican City.…
User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder
SAP's German-speaking user group has warned that the enterprise software giant's current licensing regime is creating unwanted difficulties in launching cloud migration and upgrade projects.…
OpenAI plugs ShadowLeak bug in ChatGPT that let miscreants raid inboxes
ChatGPT's research assistant sprung a leak – since patched – that let attackers steal Gmail secrets with just a single carefully crafted email.…
Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators
As UK ministers continue to quiz stakeholders over the effectiveness of the Online Safety Act, one charity chief raised concerns over the robustness of Ofcom's enforcement of the controversial legislation.…
British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
The inaugural finals of the UK Excel Championship have come and gone, and there is now one spreadsheet wrangler to rule them all, at least in the United Kingdom.…
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday frolic through your tales of delightful tech support encounters.…
MI6 reveals 'Silent Courier' dark web portal upgrade it hopes will help it recruit new spies
The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has created a dark web portal called “Silent Courier” that it hopes would-be foreign informants will find a suitably secure means of sharing secrets.…
Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week
Slack sent a nonprofit hacking club for teens a demand for $50,000, payable within a week, and threatened to delete the club’s message archive if it did not pay.…
Pigs will fly: Uber Eats to trial drone delivery
Flying pigs may soon be on their way to some US households, after rideshare and food delivery behemoth Uber teamed with drone operator Flytrex for food delivery services.…
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided to abandon its Akatsuki Venus orbiter, after losing contact with the craft last year.…
Microsoft boasts about humongous datacenter on abandoned Foxconn site in Wisconsin
Microsoft's CEO has claimed the operating system-slinger is building the "world's largest datacenter."…
Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G
Nvidia is set to become one of Intel's largest shareholders after the GPU giant announced on Thursday it would invest $5 billion in the struggling chipmaker under a co-development agreement targeting PCs and datacenter infrastructure.…
Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not
Now that it knows it won't be forced to sell its browser, Google is cramming AI into every vacant corner of Chrome it can find, whether you like it or not. …