TheRegister

Subscribe to TheRegister feed TheRegister
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Updated: 1 hour 42 min ago

Perplexity's Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

Wed, 2025-08-20 19:26
Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched

To the surprise of no one in the security industry, processing untrusted, unvalidated input is a bad idea.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Opinionated Arch derivative CachyOS overtakes Mint and MX on DistroWatch

Wed, 2025-08-20 19:01
Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans

CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

FBI: Russian spies exploiting a 7-year-old Cisco bug to slurp configs from critical infrastructure

Wed, 2025-08-20 18:20
Snarfing up config files for 'thousands' of devices…just for giggles, we're sure

The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

GSA launches AI sandbox, says it won't be around for long

Wed, 2025-08-20 17:47
GSA AI chief says market can do better but the feds needed a kickstart

The Trump administration just launched a detailed, AI-pushing platform for federal agencies last week, but a government leader is already promising to kill it. …

Categories: Linux fréttir

Chinese funding backs sale of British microLED specialist

Wed, 2025-08-20 17:23
Plessey sold to Haylo Labs, financed by $100M Goertek loan

The UK's Plessey Semiconductors has been acquired by Haylo Labs, using funding supplied by a Chinese company, Goertek Inc. The move was cleared by the British government.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven

Wed, 2025-08-20 17:03
Researchers disclosing their findings said 'it's as bad as it sounds'

Researchers at watchTowr just published working proof-of-concept exploits for two unauthenticated remote code execution bug chains in backup giant Commvault.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

'Limited' data leak at Aussie telco turns out to be 280K customer details

Wed, 2025-08-20 16:45
iiNet breach blamed on single stolen login, with emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed

Aussie telco giant TPG Telecom has opened an investigation after confirming a cyberattack at subsidiary iiNet.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Pages