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‘An attacker's playground:’ Crims exploit GoAnywhere perfect-10 bug
Security researchers have confirmed that threat actors have exploited the maximum-severity vulnerability affecting Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT), and chastised the vendor for a lack of transparency.…
LockBit's new variant is 'most dangerous yet,' hitting Windows, Linux and VMware ESXi
Trend Micro has sounded the alarm over the new LockBit 5.0 ransomware strain, which it warns is "significantly more dangerous" than past versions due to its newfound ability to simultaneously target Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments. …
Software CEO tells Catholic uni panel AI won't take out jobs, but it could take out brains
The CEO of a software testing company told a panel at Catholic University of America that AI will not create mass unemployment – though it could make people more stupid.…
Prompt injection – and a $5 domain – trick Salesforce Agentforce into leaking sales
A now-fixed flaw in Salesforce’s Agentforce could have allowed external attackers to steal sensitive customer data via prompt injection, according to security researchers who published a proof-of-concept attack on Thursday. They were aided by an expired trusted domain that they were able to buy for a measly five bucks.…
Volvo North America confirms staff data stolen following ransomware attack on IT supplier
Volvo North America is the latest large organization to announce attackers accessed employee data after a ransomware attack struck its HR system provider.…
SpaceX Dragon huffs, puffs... and fizzles out as NASA aborts ISS boost
NASA has made progress with plans to boost the rapidly decaying orbit of the Swift observatory while calling an abrupt halt to an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) using SpaceX's Dragon.…
Microsoft digs up Vista-era animated wallpaper for Windows 11. Here's how to get it
hands on If you're tired of staring at the same old static wallpapers in Windows 11, there's help on the way. Microsoft has just added support for animated video backgrounds in the latest Insider builds of its popular operating system, heralding their likely appearance in a production update soon.…
UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild
Cybersecurity agencies on both sides of the Atlantic are sounding the alarm over Cisco firewall vulnerabilities that are being exploited by an "advanced threat actor."…
UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029
The UK government plans to issue all legal residents a digital identity by the end of the current Parliament, which could run until August 2029, with its use required to get a job.…
Brits warned as illegal robo-callers with offshored call centers fined half a million
The UK's data protection watchdog fined two Brit businesses with offshore call centers £550,000 (c $735,000) over illegal automated marketing calls.…
Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions
Microsoft will give consumers in the European Economic Area no-strings extended support for the soon-to be-EOL Windows 10.…
Just using open source software isn't radical any more. Europe needs to dig deeper
Feature It is 2025. Linux will turn 34 and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) 40. For the EU and Europe at large, which is famously experimental with government deployments of open source tech, behind initiatives to promote open licensing, and whose governments promote equal opportunity for FOSS vendors in public tendering, it's a crunch point.…
Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find
On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's weekly column in which readers share stories of earnestly trying to fix broken tech, and end up feeling broken afterwards.…
Apple, Google, tell Europe its Digital Markets Act isn't working for them - or consumers
Apple and Google have both urged the European Union to revisit its Digital Markets Act (DMA), which both tech giants say is failing.…
Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud
Dell has entered the earbud market with a product you can manage from the cloud.…
800,000 tons of mud probably just made electronics more expensive
In recent years technology buyers have endured hardware price rises due to a pandemic and its impact on supply chains, the global wave of inflation that followed, tariffs, and surging demand for AI technologies that allowed vendors to charge higher prices. Now, 800,000 tons of mud has pushed copper prices higher.…
Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC
Intel has reportedly sought an investment from rival chipmaker TSMC.…
Google to merge Android and ChromeOS in 2026, because AI
Video Google has confirmed it will merge its ChromeOS and Android operating systems, and that the mobile OS will emerge triumphant.…
Microsoft cuts off Azure phone surveillance support for Israeli military
The president of Microsoft has said it's cutting parts of the Israeli military off from Azure after reports that the army was using the platform in a mass surveillance operation against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.…
X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s latest attempt to bring Apple’s M-series magic to the PC
Qualcomm revealed the second act in its bid to overtake Intel and AMD as the leading laptop CPU maker this week with the paper launch of its Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme processors. The company seeks to bring the kind of battery life and performance Apple has gotten out of its Arm-based M-series silicon to the Windows market.…