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Russian-Speaking Attackers Target Ethereum Devs with Fake Hardhat npm Packages 2025-01-06 at 13:04 By Cybersecurity researchers have revealed several malicious packages on the npm registry that have been found impersonating the Nomic Foundation’s Hardhat tool in order to steal sensitive data from developer systems. “By exploiting trust in open source plugins, attackers have infiltrated these […]

Microsoft’s spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown 2025-01-06 at 12:31 By Richard Speed Legal tussle over resale of on-prem perpetual licenses kicked off four years ago The legal saga involving reseller ValueLicensing, Microsoft, and perpetual licenses continued through 2024 and is set for trial in 2026.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

After China’s Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now 2025-01-06 at 11:38 By Rupert Goodwins If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble Opinion  When a typhoon devastates a land, it takes a while to understand the scale of the destruction. Disaster relief kicks in, communications rebuilt, and news flows […]

Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July 2025-01-06 at 07:38 By Simon Sharwood Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom’s ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices’ business plan? Broadcom’s annual report reveals two items of note for VMware customers: two planned major […]

The Salary of a Chief Security Officer 2025-01-06 at 07:02 By The 23rd annual Security and Compliance Compensation report gives industry professionals insight into what their peers are earning. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

An era of conflict: Navigating a ‘fragmenting world’ in 2025 2025-01-06 at 07:02 By In 2025, organizations will be more vulnerable to the second and third order effects of seemingly esoteric, distant or unrelated phenomena.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Taiwan reportedly claims China-linked ship damaged one of its submarine cables 2025-01-06 at 05:34 By Simon Sharwood More evidence of Beijing’s liking for grey zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged a submarine cable.… This article is an excerpt […]

Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online 2025-01-06 at 03:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief  Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without […]

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand ‘surges 1150%’ 2025-01-06 at 01:18 By Jessica Lyons State masks up finally – its IP addresses, that is Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year’s Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.… This […]

How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software 2025-01-06 at 00:21 By Liam Proven Even Microsoft’s lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion  The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.… This article is an […]

The real reason that OS/2 flopped went on to shape modern software 2025-01-05 at 15:33 By Liam Proven Even Microsoft’s lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion  The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.… This article […]

Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe’s old-school migrators 2025-01-05 at 13:27 By Lindsay Clark New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate more detailed differences between ancient DNA data has proved its worth this week after a paper describing human population movements in […]

US sanctions Beijing-based cyber group for its alleged role in hacking incidents 2025-01-05 at 05:03 By Associated Press The U.S. Treasury on Friday sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical U.S. infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York […]

How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible 2025-01-04 at 20:35 By Tobias Mann If they’re not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is Feature  The explosive growth of datacenters that followed ChatGPT’s debut in 2022 has shone a spotlight on the environmental impact of these power-hungry facilities.… This […]

Gmail, Outlook and Apple users urged to watch out for this new email scam: Cybersecurity experts sound alarm 2025-01-04 at 17:48 By Brooke Kato Security company McAfee is warning of this new sophisticated scam. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution 2025-01-04 at 17:33 By A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery’s Nuclei, a widely-used open-source vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code. Tracked as CVE-2024-43405, it carries a CVSS score of 7.4 […]

Encryption backdoor debate ‘done and dusted,’ former White House tech advisor says 2025-01-04 at 16:34 By Jessica Lyons When the FBI urges E2EE, you know it’s serious business interview  In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmakers and privacy advocates alike have called the worst telecoms breach in America’s history, the US government […]

Shackleton’s Endurance sets sail for polar peril in Lego 2025-01-04 at 11:34 By David Spooner Because we’re all still kids – just richer The debate as to whether Lego is a toy or not largely depends on your willingness to accept revisiting childhood excitement as an adult, especially when it’s now far more likely to […]

PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps 2025-01-04 at 11:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor, according to Google’s Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps […]