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SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution 2026-02-25 at 15:07 By SolarWinds has released updates to address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities, all rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system, are listed below – […]

Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker 2026-02-25 at 15:07 By A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of

Wynn Resorts takes attacker’s word for it that stolen staff data was deleted 2026-02-25 at 14:39 By Connor Jones Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers’ word that they’ve since deleted it.… This article is

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and ‘fully conscious’ 2026-02-25 at 14:30 By Liam Proven It’s not chatbot psychosis, it’s ‘math and engineering and neuroscience’ The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive 2026-02-25 at 14:23 By SA Mathieson Overhauling immigration system a ‘significant change for millions of travelers,’ government admits Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a £589 certificate as a result of the

Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values 2026-02-25 at 13:22 By Dan Robinson Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

🎙️SECURITY.COM The Podcast: Personal Privacy with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 2026-02-25 at 13:00 By Enterprise Security Group Hackers the movie, dopamine machines, and the role of community activism in protecting your digital privacy This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Manual Processes Are Putting National Security at Risk 2026-02-25 at 13:00 By Why automating sensitive data transfers is now a mission-critical priority More than half of national security organizations still rely on manual processes to transfer sensitive data, according to The CYBER360: Defending the Digital Battlespace report. This should alarm every defense and government leader

DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700m with no explanation 2026-02-25 at 12:47 By Lindsay Clark Agency that can’t keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreement The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new

CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of FileZen CVE-2026-25108 Vulnerability 2026-02-25 at 08:19 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed vulnerability in FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25108 (CVSS v4 score: 8.7), is a case of operating

Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find 2026-02-25 at 08:05 By Simon Sharwood And they’re being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to

From the Outside In: A Smarter Approach to Vendor Access 2026-02-25 at 07:18 By Modern access control strategies are shifting focus to vendors, contractors, and the perimeter itself. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent 2026-02-25 at 06:42 By Simon Sharwood Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner 2026-02-25 at 05:44 By Simon Sharwood Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth server farms Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute

Workday CEO’s AI talk can’t shake off weaker sales forecast 2026-02-25 at 03:33 By O’Ryan Johnson Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic

It’s only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding 2026-02-25 at 03:33 By Tobias Mann Fears of an AI bubble haven’t tempered vulture capitalists’ enthusiasm for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still

Meta frees React to live in its own foundation 2026-02-25 at 03:33 By Thomas Claburn Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.… This article is an

AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them 2026-02-25 at 01:46 By Thomas Claburn Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t What good is finding a hole if you can’t fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code’s improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But

Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI 2026-02-25 at 01:46 By Corey Quinn Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion  I’ve been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth gives Anthropic Friday deadline to remove military AI restrictions or face potential blacklisting 2026-02-25 at 00:00 By Thomas Barrabi Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Anthropic boss Dario Amodei that he has until Friday evening to remove restrictions on how the US military can use its Claude AI chatbot – or potentially