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Watchdog boss calls Capita’s £370M DWP win ‘extraordinary’ amid pension portal dumpster fire 2026-03-13 at 16:30 By Lindsay Clark PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys The chair of the UK Parliament’s public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) […]

Investigating a New Click-Fix Variant 2026-03-13 at 15:35 By Disclaimer: This report has been prepared by the Threat Research Center to enhance cybersecurity awareness and support the strengthening of defense capabilities. It is based on independent research and observations of the current threat landscape available at the time of publication. The content is intended for

Azure startup credits don’t apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge 2026-03-13 at 15:20 By Richard Speed Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it 2026-03-13 at 15:19 By Liam Proven Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 2026-03-13 at 15:02 By Richard Speed ‘When we tank the vehicle … I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch’ NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns 2026-03-13 at 14:46 By Connor Jones Operation Synergia’s third season is the most productive to date Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power 2026-03-13 at 14:34 By Dan Robinson It wants ‘safe, cost effective, and rapid.’ We say: ‘Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2’ Britain’s government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.…

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids’ IDs before booting 2026-03-13 at 14:34 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis Opinion  A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.… This

NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents 2026-03-13 at 14:02 By Thomas Claburn Take your YOLO and box it up exclusive  NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project’s commitment to security.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack 2026-03-13 at 13:37 By Carly Page Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser’s tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the

Windows pays tribute to Britain’s creaking rail network with a BSOD 2026-03-13 at 13:16 By Richard Speed Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.… This article is an excerpt

🎙️SECURITY.COM The Podcast: AI-Hacking: Red Team vs. Blue Team 2026-03-13 at 12:22 By Enterprise Security Group Guinea pigs, fictitious signatures, and the future of security in an AI-driven world This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them 2026-03-13 at 12:22 By Dan Robinson Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid…

Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8 2026-03-13 at 11:31 By Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-3909 (CVSS score: 8.8) –

Nine CrackArmor Flaws in Linux AppArmor Enable Root Escalation, Bypass Container Isolation 2026-03-13 at 11:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel’s AppArmor module that could be exploited by unprivileged users to circumvent kernel protections, escalate to root, and undermine container isolation guarantees. The nine confused deputy vulnerabilities have been

AI Burning Man happens next week – here’s what The Register expects at GTC 2026 2026-03-13 at 08:54 By Tobias Mann From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants

Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries 2026-03-13 at 08:54 By A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. “SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,” the U.S.

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years 2026-03-13 at 07:37 By Simon Sharwood Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs.…

Veeam Patches 7 Critical Backup & Replication Flaws Allowing Remote Code Execution 2026-03-13 at 07:37 By Veeam has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2026-21666 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A vulnerability

Discussing Use of Force in Security: A Challenging Discussion? 2026-03-13 at 06:11 By Some may consider the use of force in security to be a challenging discussion, but it must be had in order to improve functionally and ethically. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source