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Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London ‘wobble’ last week 2026-01-28 at 13:49 By Richard Speed But did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger’s cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users reported an outage late last week in its London region, yet despite complaints from Register readers, Big Red is staying quiet.… This article is an […]

Bitcoin eyes $90K ahead of FOMC: Watch these BTC price levels next 2026-01-28 at 13:03 By Cointelegraph by Nancy Lubale Bitcoin price traded below $90,000 as investors braced for Jerome Powell’s post-FOMC speech that could trigger volatile swings toward key BTC price levels. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Password Reuse in Disguise: An Often-Missed Risky Workaround 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By When security teams discuss credential-related risk, the focus typically falls on threats such as phishing, malware, or ransomware. These attack methods continue to evolve and rightly command attention. However, one of the most persistent and underestimated risks to organizational security remains far more

Fake Python Spellchecker Packages on PyPI Delivered Hidden Remote Access Trojan 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerade as spellcheckers but contain functionality to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT). The packages, named spellcheckerpy and spellcheckpy, are no longer available for download,

Google Warns of Active Exploitation of WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088 2026-01-28 at 12:49 By Google on Tuesday revealed that multiple threat actors, including nation-state adversaries and financially motivated groups, are exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw in RARLAB WinRAR to establish initial access and deploy a diverse array of payloads. “Discovered and patched in July 2025,

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden 2026-01-28 at 12:33 By Richard Speed Cascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time Microsoft Azure, or at least the part of it that handles the OpenAI service in the Sweden Central region, was down and out for the count yesterday, leaving

UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die 2026-01-28 at 12:28 By Lindsay Clark AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC’s procurement pipeline The UK’s tax collector is budgeting to spend more than £2 billion on new tech deals in the next couple of years, including a contract set for

OKX launches EU stablecoin payment card via regulated issuer Monavate 2026-01-28 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz OKX says the card supports USDC and USDG spending, is issued via Monavate on Mastercard’s network and is available to verified EU users. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Suspected US seizure theft wallet launches memecoin, crashes 97% 2026-01-28 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai A wallet linked to an alleged theft from a US government crypto seizure launched a Solana memecoin on Pump.fun that later crashed 97%, sparking tokenomics warnings. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Bitget hires ex-Bitpanda legal chief Oliver Stauber to build Vienna MiCA hub 2026-01-28 at 12:06 By Cointelegraph by Christina Comben Bitget EU said it expects MiCA approval in Austria by mid-2026, with a broker-led model and strict asset standards for European users. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

ATM flashes a port or two for the enterprising hacker 2026-01-28 at 12:06 By Richard Speed Connection secured. Not so sure about the installation Bork!Bork!Bork!  Behold an ATM crying out for a man-in-the-middle attack. An obsolete Microsoft operating system cannot be blamed here. This is all about the hardware.… This article is an excerpt from

Britain’s Ministry of Defence signs on the dotted line with Palantir 2026-01-28 at 12:06 By SA Mathieson ‘Follow-on’ agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor’s ICE contract Stateside The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has directly awarded a £240.6 million contract to US technology company Palantir to continue to licence and support its