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Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M
The European Central Bank's (ECB) decision to delay its move to a new messaging standard in 2022 ended up costing the Bank of England £23 million as it was forced to adjust migration to a new settlement system to avoid compounding risks.…
JLR: Payroll data stolen in cybercrime that shook UK economy
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has reportedly told staff the cyber raid that crippled its operations in August didn't just bring production to a screeching halt – it also walked off with the personal payroll data of thousands of employees.…
Apple and Google forced into emergency patching 0-day
Apple and Google have both issued emergency patches after zero-day bugs were caught being actively exploited in what the companies describe as "sophisticated" real-world attacks.…
Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy
The Danish government wants the public to weigh in on its proposed laws restricting use of VPNs to access certain corners of the internet.…
Legal protection for ethical hacking under Computer Misuse Act is only the first step
Opinion It was 40 years ago that four young British hackers set about changing the law, although they didn't know it at the time. It was a cross-platform attack including a ZX Spectrum, a BBC Micro, and a Tatung Einstein slamming British Telecom's Prestel service over dial-up modems at 75 bits per second.…
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
Who, Me? After a weekend of R&R, The Register welcomes you back to the working week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace errors and indiscretions and reveal how you survived to tell the tale.…
Japan just sent origami to space to unfurl possibilities for outsized antennas
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after the successful Sunday launch of its Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration No. 4, which is packed with 16 intriguing payloads.…
Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite
Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.…
Honeypots can help defenders, or damn them if implemented badly
Infosec In Brief The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has found that cyber-deception tactics such as honeypots and decoy accounts designed to fool attackers can be useful if implemented very carefully.…
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.…
British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
British Airways' chief executive has warned that the airline industry is fast heading for a future where AI agents, not humans, decide which brands get booked – and carriers that fail to adapt are at risk of quietly disappearing from the digital shop window.…
Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit
A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to crash the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service now has a free, unofficial patch - with no word as to when Redmond plans to release an official one - along with a working exploit circulating online.…
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
If you're running React Server Components, you just can't catch a break. In addition to already-reported flaws, newly discovered bugs allow attackers to hang vulnerable servers and potentially leak Server Function source code, so anyone using RSC or frameworks that support it should patch quickly.…
Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger
President Trump and his patrons in big tech have long wanted to block states from implementing their own AI regulations. After failing twice to do so in Congress, the US president has issued an executive order that would attempt to punish states that try to restrain the bot business.…
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
The total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.…
The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens
Earth's orbit is starting to look like an LA freeway, with more and more satellites being launched each year. If you're worried about collisions and space debris making the area unusable – and you should be – scientists have proposed a new metric to contribute to your anxiety: the CRASH Clock.…
AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns
Goldman Sachs warns that datacenter investments may fail to pay off if the industry is unable to monetize AI models, but hedges its bets by saying that demand could also overwhelm available capacity by 2030.…
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Microsoft is overhauling its bug bounty program to reward exploit hunters for finding vulnerabilities across all its products and services, even those without established bounty schemes.…
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
The US is suing a former senior manager at Accenture for allegedly misleading the government about the security of an Army cloud platform.…
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Stop us if you've heard this one before. Microsoft is in court regarding allegedly sharp software licensing practices.…