We speak to scientists involved in historic first snap – and no, this isn't the M87* Astronomers have captured a clear image of the gigantic supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy for the first time.…
Lees meerWe take a look at low, low subscription prices – not that we want to give anyone any ideas A Tor-hidden website dubbed the Eternity Project is offering a toolkit of malware, including ransomware, worms, and – coming soon – distributed denial-of-serv…
Lees meerTouting info on 6,700 compromised systems will get you four years behind bars A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to four years in a US federal prison for selling on a dark-web marketplace stolen login credentials for more than 6,700 compromised serv…
Lees meerNvidia, AMD, Apple et al may be forced to pass cost on to customers Just as costs for some components have started to come down, TSMC and Samsung, the two largest contract chip manufacturers in the world, are reportedly planning to increase prices o…
Lees meerDemand for PostgreSQL and Kafka driving interest in cloud service, CEO tells The Register Finnish open-source-as-a-service provider Aiven received $210 million in funding this week, adding $1 billion to its nominal valuation in just nine months.…
Lees meerAdds infosec regulation coming to more industries but with a light touch, more collaboration Black Hat Asia Software made unsafe by dependencies should be fixed without users needing to interact with the source of the problem, according to US Natio…
Lees meerThe idea? To get investors muttering: DRAM, those gross margins are stable... Memory and storage maker Micron Technology has revealed a new business model intended to address the volatility in the memory market that has resulted in sharp swings in p…
Lees meerNine out of ten organizations would do it all over again, keeping attackers in business Almost nine in 10 organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack would choose to pay the ransom if hit again, according to a new report, compared with two-…
Lees meerThe internet is now the first battleground of any new war – before the shooting starts Black Hat Asia Cyber war has become an emerged aspect of broader armed conflicts, commencing before the first shot is fired, cybersecurity expert Kenneth Geers t…
Lees meer'This is not recommended for production development. It may be unstable and it will have bugs' Canonical has begun slinging daily builds of Ubuntu at Windows Subsystem for Linux. We took a look at the not-for-production code.…
Lees meerKhamenei, can you just not? Not right now, fam The Iran-linked Cobalt Mirage crew is running attacks against America for both financial gain and for cyber-espionage purposes, according to Secureworks' threat intelligence team.…
Lees meerYes/No/Cancel culture at its worst Something for the Weekend "We all know what we're doing today? Good. Do your best!"…
Lees meerLess than 5% of users are spam accounts? Show us your working Elon Musk has hit the brakes on his proposed takeover of Twitter in light of the platform's insistence that spam accounts accounted for less than 5 percent of its daily active users.…
Lees meerFarewell to scheduling your emergencies in advance Microsoft is to permit unscheduled breaks into its exams, bringing relief to students working through the often lengthy process.…
Lees meerMake it work like it does at home On Call In this week's episode of our On Call column, an exasperated Register reader nearly walks the plank after failing to break the laws of physics.…
Lees meer‘Cooperative mutation’ spots problems that checking scripts alone will miss Black Hat Asia Security researchers have devised a tool that detects flaws in the way apps like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat process JavaScript, and it's proven so effe…
Lees meerAs well as chip design licensing, 5G smartphones, cars ... who needs Nvi-whatchamacallit? With Arm looking to re-enter the public market at some point, the British chip designer is hoping to get would-be investors excited with figures that indicate …
Lees meerGuess you could call this Mercury Ryzen Here's a new data point that will rile Intel up: AMD now accounts for nearly 30 percent of x86 CPU market share, and the chip designer got there during an industry downturn.…
Lees meerLess demand will see prices fall, and gaming laptop sales rise – which is nice as the rest of the PC market has cooled Taiwanese hardware giant ASUSTeK says demand for GPU used to mine cryptocurrency is "disappearing" – and so is about ten percent o…
Lees meerAround the time Beijing banned online gambling, RATs started targeting operators say Taiwanese researchers Black Hat Asia To predict the targets of new Chinese malware, keep an eye on new Chinese government policies, a threat intelligence analyst s…
Lees meerReverse-engineered code redirects visitors to dodgy corners of the internet A years-long campaign by miscreants to insert malicious JavaScript into vulnerable WordPress sites, so that visitors are redirected to scam websites, has been documented by …
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