Security exec Mark Ryland spills the tea on hush-hush threat intel tool Interview AWS has unveiled MadPot, its previously secret threat-intelligence tool that one of the cloud giant's security execs tells us has thwarted Chinese and Russian spies –…
Lees meerAlleges it achieved dominance through nefarious means – but who would do such a thing? The sound of the world's smallest violin could be heard playing as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stand yesterday to testify in the US government's antit…
Lees meerEnd-of-life systems still in use, poor inventory control, and China's hunting Updated The US Department of State has largely failed to implement an effective cybersecurity risk program, auditors concluded in a report last week. That means a crucial…
Lees meerHaving seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it? Analysis The early 1940s saw the first vacuum tube computers put to work solving problems beyond the scope of their human counterparts. These massive…
Lees meerspidermanpointingmeme.jpg The wisdom of Twitter's pivot to X under Elon Musk has been repeatedly questioned and now those chickens are coming home to roost with a lawsuit brought by Florida ad agency X Social Media.…
Lees meerChrome’s second zero-day of the month puts fed security at 'significant risk' The US's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the latest actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting Google Chrome to its Known Exploi…
Lees meerWith more constellations on the horizon, scientists call for better approval of launches A recently launched 5G satellite periodically becomes the brightest object in the night sky, alarming astronomers who reckon it sometimes becomes hundreds of ti…
Lees meerKeep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' The openSUSE project is undergoing changes that, to us at least, indicate a multiplicity of future directions for the code base.…
Lees meerUsers get three-year deprecation and migration warning Microsoft will deprecate the classic edition of its Azure Virtual Desktop desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) and has given customers three years to keep using the service before they'll need to find an…
Lees meerDetailed design and long lead contracts signed off for SSN-AUKUS project The UK government has signed off on contracts worth £4 billion ($4.8 billion) to start the design and long lead phase for building the next generation of nuclear-powered attack…
Lees meerNobody expects more flexible string parsing Python 3.12, the latest stable release of the Python programming language, was released on Monday, offering developers a handful of new capabilities and the removal of some cruft.…
Lees meerEarly signs emerge after Progress Software said there were no active attempts last week Updated Security researchers have spotted what they believe to be a "possible mass exploitation" of vulnerabilities in Progress Software's WS_FTP Server.…
Lees meerYet history tells us it's an ever present temptation to grab greater chunks of the stack Rather than MongoDB's AI-powered SQL converter, natural language queries, or ML visualization releases, it's the document database company's strategy for vertic…
Lees meerOfcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing The Reg can reveal that UK's comms regulator Ofcom is expected to refer the findings of its six-month inquiry into the health of Britain'…
Lees meerJust because you're paranoid… We're sure you'll be pleased to know Microsoft Defender has stopped mistakenly breaking the latest version of Tor Browser. The antivirus tool had flagged and quarantined the application's core tor.exe program as a troja…
Lees meerEurolauncher won't fly again until 2024 as it awaits another redesign The Vega-C rocket will not return to launch until late 2024 because a test on a redesigned nozzle failed, the European Space Agency revealed on Monday.…
Lees meerTaiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender Desktop Tourism The Register has sensibly struck a deal with a global PC provider who dispatches machines to vultures wherever they work around the world. After spending time with the ASUS…
Lees meerSome may be made in India, where the Big G has teamed to make kit with HP Google has added a 'Plus' designation to its Chromebook spec that requires machines to offer at least an Intel Core i3 12th Gen or above, or AMD Ryzen 3 7000, plus 8GB of memo…
Lees meerCYNEX Alliance brings industry, government, and academia together to share info and devise tools Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology yesterday launched the CYNEX Alliance – an entity charged with fostering local d…
Lees meerPlus: Philippine state health insurance knocked offline by ransomware, China relaxes data export laws, and more Asia in brief Zhu Su, co-founder of fallen crypto business Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested last Friday at Changi Airport in Sin…
Lees meerBasically, it's 'not going to work' Exclusive In July, the White House announced that seven large tech players have committed to AI safety measures, including the deployment of watermarking to ensure that algorithmically-generated content can be di…
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