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Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims
Allianz UK confirms it was one of the many companies that fell victim to the Clop gang's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attack after crims reported that they had attacked a subsidiary.…
Three most important factors in enterprise IT: control, control, control
Opinion When the first generation of microcomputers landed on desktops, they promised many things. Affordability, flexibility, efficiency, all the good things still selling IT to this day. Mostly, though, they offered control.…
UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B
The UK government is launching a competition for military grade communications hardware and software in a tender worth up to £9.6 billion ($12.5 billion) including tax.…
Cisco creating new security model using 30 years of data describing cyber-dramas and saves
Exclusive Cisco is working on a new AI model that will more than double the number of parameters used to train its current flagship Foundation-Sec-8B.…
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
Who, Me? Welcome to another week in the world of work, and therefore also to another edition of Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday reader-contributed column in which you admit to the error of your ways.…
Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’
Microsoft has teased what it’s calling “a new class” of AI agents “that operate as independent users within the enterprise workforce.”…
Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list
Asia In Brief Chinese infosec blog MXRN last week reported a data breach at a security company called Knownsec that has ties to Beijing and Chinas military.…
Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one
Infosec in brief There's no indication that the brazen bandits who stole jewels from the Louvre attacked the famed French museum's systems, but had they tried, it would have been incredibly easy.…
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
A row is brewing in Europe over the 6 GHz part of the wireless spectrum, between those who believe it should be licensed for use by cellular networks and others that want it reserved for Wi-Fi.…
Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely
The CEO of the company behind note-taking app Obsidian says the well-known video game house of the same name has sent one of its customer queries to his own team – claiming that "off-the-shelf AI support software" is why the gaming firm gave a user the wrong email address.…
Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map
interview Digital rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she's made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders.…
Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
OPINION I have a habit of ironically referring to Microsoft's various self-induced whoopsies as examples of the company's "legendary approach to quality control." While the robustness of Windows NT in decades past might qualify as "legendary", anybody who has had to use the company's wares in recent years might quibble with the word "quality."…
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
Meta on Friday floated plans to invest $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028 as part of a massive datacenter expansion.…
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members
Law students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law last month held a mock trial to see how AI models administer justice.…
Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones
A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tracking locations, and harvesting photos and logs before Samsung finally patched it in April.…
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing
AI companies regularly tout their models' performance on benchmark tests as a sign of technological and intellectual superiority. But those results, widely used in marketing, may not be meaningful.…
Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize
Nvidia's latest generation of Blackwell accelerators won't be available in China anytime soon, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who said there were no "active discussions" about selling the coveted chips to the Middle Kingdom.…
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.…
China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume
Tensions between China and the Netherlands over the state of chipmaker Nexperia have begun to ease, but the battle for company control doesn't appear to be entirely resolved yet. …
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive
Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…