Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness Who, Me? For once, Redmond's finest saved the day - by being rubbish in unexpectedly useful ways 22 Apr 2024 | 89
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects 16 Apr 2024 | 29
Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft Infosec in brief Also, TheMoon botnet back for EoL SOHO routers, Sellafield to be prosecuted for 'infosec failures', plus critical vulns 01 Apr 2024 | 3
Truck-to-truck worm could infect – and disrupt – entire US commercial fleet The device that makes it possible is required in all American big rigs, and has poor security 22 Mar 2024 | 74
Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough? Opinion Unique institutions need unique security. Instead, they're fobbed off with the same old, same old 27 Nov 2023 | 26
Red Cross lays down hacktivism law as Ukraine war rages on Rules apply to cyber vigilantes and their home nations, but experts cast doubt over potential benefits 04 Oct 2023 | 4
Grant Shapps named UK defense supremo in latest 'tech-savvy' Tory tale Comment He praised Apple for its 'open source' tech – now he'll oversee AI use to defend Britain from its foes 31 Aug 2023 | 98
Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year Top of the list to trip sensors 28 Aug 2023 | 6
Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials? 15 Jul 2023 |
US cyber chiefs warn AI will help crooks, China develop nastier cyberattacks faster It's not all doom and gloom because ML also amplifies defensive efforts, probably 12 Apr 2023 | 15
Microsoft took its macros and went home, so miscreants turned to Windows LNK files Adapt or die 23 Jan 2023 | 6
US offshore oil and gas installation at 'increasing' risk of cyberattack GAO says 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster will look like a walk in the park 21 Nov 2022 | 8
This Windows worm evolved into slinging ransomware. Here's how to detect it Raspberry Robin hits 1,000 orgs in just one month 28 Oct 2022 | 12
Hacktivists say they stole 100,000 emails from Iran's nuclear energy agency Tehran laughs it off as foreign psyop or media stunt. Just don't remind them about Stuxnet, OK? 24 Oct 2022 | 1
Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp? 14 Oct 2022 | 12
Criminal multitool LilithBot arrives on malware-as-a-service scene Bespoke botnet up for grabs from outfit praised for, er, customer service 10 Oct 2022 | 1
Waxworm's spit shows promise in puncturing plastic pollution Scientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene 05 Oct 2022 | 20
Ukraine's cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit Black Hat In Brief TL;DR: The news isn't good 13 Aug 2022 | 6
EndeavourOS Artemis: Arch Linux, but a bit friendlier The Reg FOSS desk takes the latest release, 22.6, for a spin 29 Jun 2022 | 5
No, OpenAI's image-making DALL·E 2 doesn't understand some secret language In brief Plus: Who is responsible for libel by ML models, and more 07 Jun 2022 | 17