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Maine filing confirms July attack affected 42,521 employees and job applicants Ingram Micro disclosed that a July 2025 ransomware attack compromised the personal data of tens of thousands of employees.… Continue reading Ingram Micro admits summer ransomware raid exposed thousands of staff records
Labour’s latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer’s amendment The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism o… Continue reading UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids
Kids return to classrooms after safety infrastructure knocked out A Warwickshire secondary school says it will fully reopen this week after a cyberattack forced a prolonged closure – though staff will return to classrooms with “very limited access” to … Continue reading Warwickshire school to reopen after cyberattack crippled IT
Capable of carrying 1-ton payload and key to strategy protecting North Atlantic from Russian submarines The Royal Navy has conducted the first flight of a helicopter-sized autonomous drone that is planned to operate from its ships in support of mission… Continue reading Royal Navy’s helicopter drone makes its first autonomous flight
Bank staff wore the blame for a silly security slip Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of “Who Me?”, The Register’s Monday column that shares your mistakes and celebrates your escapes.… Continue reading ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
PLUS: ASUS gets into healthcare gadgets; Vietnam’s first fab; Australia’s child social ban takes out 4.7 million accounts; And more! Asia In Brief Microsoft is hiring senior managers to ensure its datacenters in Asia can access the energy they need.…… Continue reading Microsoft hiring energy strategists to power its Asian datacenters
PLUS: Navy spy sent to brig for 200 months; Black Axe busted again; Bill aims to crimp ICE apps; and more Infosec In Brief PLUS: Google’s security outfit Mandiant last week released tools that can crack credentials in 12 hours, in the hope that doing … Continue reading Mandiant releases quick credential cracker, to hasten the death of a bad protocol
Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices vulnerable Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google’s Fast Pair system that allows attack… Continue reading Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack
Microsoft claims it’s a Secure Launch bug We’re not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn’t want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-o… Continue reading Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware.… Continue reading German cops add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list