Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? 2026-05-01 at 13:58 By Richard Speed Things that go bork in the night Bork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?… This article is an excerpt from […]
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? Read More »
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender 2026-05-01 at 13:58 By Carly Page Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters The Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a £2
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender Read More »
Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft 2026-05-01 at 13:57 By A new software supply chain attack campaign has been observed using sleeper packages as a conduit to subsequently push malicious payloads that enabled credential theft, GitHub Actions tampering, and SSH persistence. The activity has been attributed to the GitHub
Poisoned Ruby Gems and Go Modules Exploit CI Pipelines for Credential Theft Read More »
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed 2026-05-01 at 12:19 By SA Mathieson Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK’s now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration
DVLA’s 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it 2026-05-01 at 11:30 By SA Mathieson Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it’s ‘putting things right’ The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new techto support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing
DVLA’s 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it Read More »
12 Tips for Building an Effective Security Budget 2026-05-01 at 07:03 By Alan Saquella, CPP, shares 12 tips for building a strong security budget. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
12 Tips for Building an Effective Security Budget Read More »
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 2026-05-01 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 Read More »
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools 2026-05-01 at 03:42 By Jessica Lyons Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.… This article
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools Read More »
Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By O’Ryan Johnson Stop the sprawl! With the average Global Fortune 500 enterprise expected to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, there’s plenty of room for chaos. Analyst firm Gartner says that, without proper governance, those
Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue Read More »
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it’ll change the landscape,
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled Read More »
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By Thomas Claburn Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google’s decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser Read More »
Apple iPhone powers quarterly sales to $111B: ‘Demand was off the charts’ 2026-05-01 at 01:57 By Reuters Sales of the iPhone, still the company’s best-selling product nearly 20 years after its introduction, were $56.99 billion. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source
Apple iPhone powers quarterly sales to $111B: ‘Demand was off the charts’ Read More »
Meta threatens to shut down Instagram, Facebook in New Mexico if judge orders ‘impractical’ kids protections 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Thomas Barrabi The threat from Meta comes just weeks after a New Mexico jury slapped the company with $375 million in civil penalties and ruled that the company failed to protect kids from sexual predators
Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica’s latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Tobias Mann Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia’s 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica’s latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis.…
Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Dan Robinson Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as
Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation Read More »
Google’s fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is
Google’s fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines Read More »
French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Connor Jones Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling
French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency Read More »
PyTorch Lightning and Intercom-client Hit in Supply Chain Attacks to Steal Credentials 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft. According to Aikido Security, OX Security, Socket, and StepSecurity, the two malicious
PyTorch Lightning and Intercom-client Hit in Supply Chain Attacks to Steal Credentials Read More »
Judge in OpenAI trial has had it with Musk’s ‘steal from a charity’ quip: ‘You’re not a lawyer’ 2026-04-30 at 22:32 By Marc Vartabedian The judge presiding over the bombshell trial over the future of artificial intelligence titan OpenAI has apparently had it with Elon Musk’s favorite line over the last three days – “You
FBI cyber boss: China’s hacker-for-hire ecosystem ‘out of control’ 2026-04-30 at 22:30 By Jessica Lyons One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend China’s “hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control,” according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View
FBI cyber boss: China’s hacker-for-hire ecosystem ‘out of control’ Read More »