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Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China’s Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers 2026-03-24 at 03:29 By Jessica Lyons Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs RSAC 2026  Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered […]

Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer 2026-03-24 at 02:20 By Thomas Claburn Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts Many people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want

If you love your boss, imagine how much more you’ll love their AI twin 2026-03-23 at 23:47 By Thomas Claburn Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcome Imagine that your boss is too busy to show up at that meeting you called so she sends a bot of

North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware 2026-03-23 at 23:47 By The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that’s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS

Snowflake’s ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI 2026-03-23 at 23:45 By O’Ryan Johnson Customers are ‘excited’ says one solution provider Snowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later 2026-03-23 at 22:42 By Brandon Vigliarolo Here’s where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs’ sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by

Senators move to ban sports betting on prediction markets like Kalshi, Polymarket — first bill of its kind 2026-03-23 at 19:58 By Marc Vartabedian A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation on Monday that would prohibit prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket from offering contracts tied to sports events and casino-style games. The

AI agents are ‘gullible’ and easy to turn into your minions 2026-03-23 at 19:58 By Jessica Lyons Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSAC RSA 2026  There’s a very simple reason why just about every enterprise AI agent is vulnerable to zero-click attacks, according to Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security

Fake product recall notices are the latest scam targeting consumers: ‘Something seemed fishy’ 2026-03-23 at 19:32 By Brooke Steinberg According to the 2025 Cyber Readiness Report, published in October, text message scam attempts have increased by a staggering 50% in the past year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post

Forget drones – the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter 2026-03-23 at 19:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Expendable military drones are so 2025 The US Army just took receipt of what may be the coolest unmanned drone ever flown by the military: A full-sized Black Hawk helicopter. … This article is an

SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site 2026-03-23 at 19:32 By Dan Robinson 10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup Softbank’s SB Energy is redeveloping Department of Energy (DoE) land in Ohio for a massive datacenter campus,

Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI 2026-03-23 at 19:32 By Tim Anderson Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications — platforms Microsoft’s own cross-platform .NET framework lacks — but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain

Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web 2026-03-23 at 17:18 By Jessica Lyons Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy Google’s Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular

SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute 2026-03-23 at 17:18 By Dan Robinson In space, no one can hear you being petty SpaceX has fired back at Amazon with a letter to the US telecoms regulator, after Amazon objected to its plans for orbiting datacenters.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says 2026-03-23 at 17:18 By Jessica Lyons Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their

Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog’s data trove 2026-03-23 at 16:13 By Carly Page US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in US data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK’s financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants

⚡ Weekly Recap: CI/CD Backdoor, FBI Buys Location Data, WhatsApp Ditches Numbers & More 2026-03-23 at 16:12 By Another week, another reminder that the internet is still a mess. Systems people thought were secure are being broken in simple ways, showing many still ignore basic advisories. This edition covers a mix of issues: supply chain

We Found Eight Attack Vectors Inside AWS Bedrock. Here’s What Attackers Can Do with Them 2026-03-23 at 15:31 By AWS Bedrock is Amazon’s platform for building AI-powered applications. It gives developers access to foundation models and the tools to connect those models directly to enterprise data and systems. That connectivity is what makes it powerful

Trivy Hack Spreads Infostealer via Docker, Triggers Worm and Kubernetes Wiper 2026-03-23 at 15:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments. The last known clean release of Trivy on Docker Hub is 0.69.3. The malicious versions 0.69.4,

Microsoft Warns IRS Phishing Hits 29,000 Users, Deploys RMM Malware 2026-03-23 at 15:31 By Microsoft has warned of fresh campaigns that are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season in the U.S. to harvest credentials and deliver malware. The email campaigns take advantage of the urgency and time-sensitive nature of emails to send phishing messages masquerading