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Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By Richard Speed Starts new one on boot loops More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as “resolved.”… This article is […]

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons to Resign 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By ICE acting director Todd Lyons is set to resign at the end of May.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul 2026-04-17 at 16:30 By Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in

Would you like fries with that terminal? 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn’t Bork!Bork!Bork!  It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Connor Jones University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By Lindsay Clark Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout

NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions 2026-04-17 at 14:32 By The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned 2026-04-17 at 13:45 By Carly Page Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 2026-04-17 at 10:12 By Thomas Claburn Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could

Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts 2026-04-17 at 10:11 By An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure 2026-04-17 at 09:24 By Simon Sharwood Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.… This article is an excerpt from

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day 2026-04-17 at 07:43 By Simon Sharwood Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing

How CSOs Can Win Board Support for Gunshot Detection Technology 2026-04-17 at 07:42 By How CSOs can win board support for gunshot detection technology. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation 2026-04-17 at 07:42 By A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score: 8.8), to its Known

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google 2026-04-17 at 05:53 By Simon Sharwood We’re not half way there, we’re still livin’ on a prayer IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Student accused of trying to murder Sam Altman is ‘well-informed’ ‘AI doomer,’ says podcast host who interviewed him 2026-04-17 at 02:15 By Rikki Schlott “I think that there’s elements in his behavior that resemble some of what we see out of school shooters … ” podcaster Andy Mills said of guest and accused murderer Daniel

Anthropic won’t own MCP ‘design flaw’ putting 200K servers at risk, researcher says 2026-04-17 at 02:15 By Jessica Lyons Bug or feature? A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic’s official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as

Netflix, HBO Max, other streaming services subscribers revolt over jacked-up prices: ‘I’m done’ 2026-04-17 at 00:43 By Ariel Zilber Scores of cord-cutters have taken to Reddit to vent their anger at shelling out nearly $30 a month for Netflix and more than $20 for HBO Max. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Jessica Lyons Social engineering: ‘low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well’ North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users’ credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on

Loud, power hungry – opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Tobias Mann If there’s one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it’s a bit barn in their backyard Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear