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Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Julian Assange to plead guilty

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by Simon Sharwood / 14h

WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed from prison in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to just one count of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, brought against him by the United States. Uncle Sam previously filed more than a dozen counts.…

UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns

NHS provider hit by cyber attack

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by Jessica Lyons / 2h

Attacking the NHS is a very bad move UK and US cops have reportedly joined forces to find and fight Qilin, the ransomware gang wreaking havoc on the global healthcare industry.…

CISA says crooks used Ivanti bugs to snoop around high-risk chemical facilities

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by Connor Jones / 39min

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CISA warns of CSAT breach

Crafty crims broke in but encryption stopped any nastiness US cybersecurity agency CISA is urging high-risk chemical facilities to secure their online accounts after someone broke into its Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) portal.…

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Ransomware thieves beware

by Robin Birtstone / 5h

Why Object First and Veeam tick the box for encryption and immutability Sponsored Feature You know that a technology problem is serious when the White House holds a summit about it.…

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by Annaliese Ingrams / 5h

Insights on expanding attack surfaces Webinar Stay ahead of cyber threats with our upcoming session on "Why attack surfaces are expanding," brought to you by Cloudflare in partnership with The Register.…

America's best chance for nationwide privacy law could do more harm than good

by Thomas Claburn / 14h

'Congress has effectively gutted it as part of a backroom deal' Analysis Introduced in April, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) was - in the words of its drafters - "the best opportunity we’ve had in decades to establish a national data privacy and security standard that gives people the right to control their personal information."…

Ollama drama as 'easy-to-exploit' critical flaw found in open source AI server

by Jessica Lyons / 17h

About a thousand vulnerable instances still exposed online, we're told A now-patched vulnerability in Ollama – a popular open source project for running LLMs – can lead to remote code execution, according to flaw finders who warned that upwards of 1,000 vulnerable instances remain exposed to the internet.…

Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK

CDK Global faces cyber incidents

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by Connor Jones / 20h

More customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is mounting.…

'Mirai-like' botnet observed attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices

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by Connor Jones / 23h

Seems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware There are early indications of active attacks targeting end-of-life Zyxel NAS boxes just a few weeks after details of three critical vulnerabilities were made public.…

Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'

by Dan Robinson / 1d

Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming The UK government has been accused of blowing £174 million ($220 million) on "external advice" for a new radio system for the armed forces that has been beset by delays and cancelled contracts.…

Levi's and more affected in pants-dropping week of data breaches

by Connor Jones / 1d

A busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not.…

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Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain

by Rupert Goodwins / 1d

Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling not to feed European social media crap into its training data. Meanwhile, in the industrial slums, 20 percent of runnin

Admin took out a call center – and almost their career – with a cut and paste error

by Matthew JC Powell / 1d

Have you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Who, me? Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for it is once again Monday, and the work week has commenced. Thankfully, The Reg is here with another dose of Who, Me? in which readers share tales of times they had a day worse than the one you're having. We hope it helps.…

Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward

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by Brandon Vigliarolo / 1d

Also: The leaked Apple internal tools that weren't; TV pirate pirates convicted; and some critical vulns, too Infosec in brief The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims – and even one of the alleged intruders – coming forward last week.…

Risk of installing dodgy extensions from Chrome store way worse than Google's letting on, study suggests

by Thomas Claburn / 2d

All depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also introduce risk."…

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