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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.…