2025

Oracle finance system at Europe’s largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later 2025-01-29 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Auditors find solution design ‘was not fully resolved’ when it went live in 2022 An Oracle-based ERP system used by Europe’s largest local authority is still not “safe and compliant” two-and-a-half years after it went […]

How Interlock Ransomware Infects Healthcare Organizations 2025-01-29 at 12:48 By Ransomware attacks have reached an unprecedented scale in the healthcare sector, exposing vulnerabilities that put millions at risk. Recently, UnitedHealth revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen during the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a figure that nearly doubles the previously

Critical Cacti Security Flaw (CVE-2025-22604) Enables Remote Code Execution 2025-01-29 at 12:48 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework that could allow an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-22604, carries a CVSS score of 9.1

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade 2025-01-29 at 12:18 By Liam Proven If you need legacy drivers, you might want to keep your older OS version – possibly indefinitely The Reg FOSS desk spent some quality time downgrading Ubuntu to restore graphics acceleration. How and why would we do this?…

Microsoft signs eviction notice on Dev Home 2025-01-29 at 11:33 By Richard Speed Development dashboard destined for ditching Microsoft is killing off its unloved Dev Home control center after the app spent less than two years in preview.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Memories fade. Archives burn. All signal eventually becomes noise 2025-01-29 at 10:33 By Mark Pesce But where are the comprehensive archives to protect digital works, or allow us to memorialize friends? Column  When moving house a few months back I found several heavy plastic tubs that, upon inspection, I saw contained my life’s work in

Spending watchdog blasts UK govt over sloth-like cyber resilience progress 2025-01-29 at 09:33 By Connor Jones Think government cybersecurity is bad? Guess again. It’s alarmingly so The UK government is significantly behind on its 2022 target to harden systems against cyberattacks by 2025, with a new report from the spending watchdog suggesting it may not

AI revoir, Lucie: France’s answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive 2025-01-29 at 08:45 By Thomas Claburn Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling As China demonstrates how competitive open source AI models can be via the latest DeepSeek release, France has shown the opposite.… This article is an

UAC-0063 Expands Cyber Attacks to European Embassies Using Stolen Documents 2025-01-29 at 08:03 By The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as UAC-0063 has been observed leveraging legitimate documents obtained by infiltrating one victim to attack another target with the goal of delivering a known malware dubbed HATVIBE. “This research focuses on completing the picture

Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer 2025-01-29 at 08:03 By Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been described as an unauthenticated

Zyxel CPE Devices Face Active Exploitation Due to Unpatched CVE-2024-40891 Vulnerability 2025-01-29 at 08:03 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild. “Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices, leading to complete system compromise, data