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UK government’s Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone 2026-03-09 at 12:58 By Lindsay Clark Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workers Opinion  On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK’s Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around […]

Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft 2026-03-09 at 12:57 By Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data. The extensions in question,

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat 2026-03-09 at 11:59 By Dan Robinson Britain’s Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeks Britain’s Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Web Server Exploits and Mimikatz Used in Attacks Targeting Asian Critical Infrastructure 2026-03-09 at 11:03 By High-value organizations located in South, Southeast, and East Asia have been targeted by a Chinese threat actor as part of a years-long campaign. The activity, which has targeted aviation, energy, government, law enforcement, pharmaceutical, technology, and telecommunications sectors, has

Lenovo, Nintendo, sue US government, seeking tariff refunds 2026-03-09 at 08:22 By Simon Sharwood Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crack World War Fee  Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour 2026-03-09 at 07:49 By Simon Sharwood You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteers NASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids,

AI Security and Forensic Accounting: Protecting Financial Systems in an Automated World 2026-03-09 at 06:15 By Forensic accounting has always focused on identifying anomalies, reconstructing events, and assessing intent. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought 2026-03-09 at 04:07 By Brandon Vigliarolo Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the lead Kettle  Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Trump administration invaded

FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools 2026-03-09 at 01:54 By Jessica Lyons and Connor Jones PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And more Infosec In Brief  The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to

Inside Elon Musk’s vision of the future, where robots do everything and humans don’t work: Utopia or ‘dystopian hellhole’? 2026-03-08 at 14:34 By Michael Kaplan The Tesla titan and other techies are bullish on ‘amazing abundance.’ This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work 2026-03-08 at 14:34 By Jessica Lyons Crims ‘will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,’ Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg interview  AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the “janitorial-type work” needed to plan and carry out

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom 2026-03-08 at 11:32 By Carly Page What hath science wrought? A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet’s most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues 2026-03-07 at 20:31 By OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that’s designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model 2026-03-07 at 15:18 By Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Mozilla. Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has

Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics 2026-03-07 at 14:29 By Tobias Mann Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits feature  By now you’ve probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It’s an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.… This article is an excerpt from The

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services 2026-03-07 at 13:26 By SA Mathieson ‘There’s a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall’ Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.… This article is an

60 years since humanity touched the surface of another planet 2026-03-07 at 11:34 By Richard Speed Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union’s Venera 3.… This article is an excerpt from The

Oracle and OpenAI’s Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids 2026-03-07 at 03:01 By Tobias Mann Meta supposidly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altman’s apparent fear of

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits 2026-03-07 at 02:37 By Thomas Claburn Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components Thanks to Anthropic’s AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser crashes rather than security flaws are the problem, Claude

Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact 2026-03-07 at 02:07 By Thomas Claburn It’s the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine Anthropic economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory report that AI is not eliminating as many jobs as experts have predicted. … This article is an excerpt