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Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Mozilla is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting developers of Firefox add-ons.…

With just over two months left, enterprises look to Extended Security Updates as a stay of execution

Windows 11 is maintaining its lead over Windows 10, but millions of PCs are still running Microsoft's legacy operating system with less than three months until support ends.…

Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves

Microsoft disconnected Indian company Nayara Energy from its cloudy resources last week, before restoring access ahead of a court clash.…

Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready

The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…

Founder miffed over prosecutors holding onto its Bitcoin

The founder of a German mobile phone repair and insurance biz has begun insolvency proceedings for some operations in his company after struggling financially following a costly ransomware attack in 2023.…

But it's OK, claims Brit government, no personal data stored 'unless absolutely necessary'

The UK government has reported that an additional five million age checks are being made daily as UK-based internet users seek to access age-restricted sites following the implementation of the Online Safety Act."…

Canonical lays off one of its old hands – a longstanding FOSS developer – after nearly two decades

Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…

Company blames license violations and infrastructure changes for abrupt move

Updated  KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users.…

Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts

Who, Me?  Welcome to the opening day of another working week, an occasion The Register always celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the Monday column that revisits readers' worst moments at work, and celebrates your ability to rebound and reinvent in their wake.…

Attempts to censor QUIC traffic create chance to block access to offshore DNS resolvers

China’s attempts to censor traffic carried using Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) are imperfect and have left the country at risk of attacks that degrade its censorship apparatus, or even cut access to offshore DNS resolvers.…

PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more!

Asia In Brief  China’s Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6.…

PLUS: Slow MFA rollout costs Canucks $5m; Lawmakers ponder Stingray ban; MSFT tightens Teams; And more!

Infosec In Brief  North Korea’s Lazarus Group has changed tactics and is now creating malware-laden open source software.…

Plus: why takedowns aren't in threat-intel analysts' best interest

interview  It started out small: One US financial services company wanted to stop unknown crooks from spoofing their trading app, tricking customers into giving the digital thieves their login credentials and account information, thus allowing them to drain their accounts.…

New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages

Being able to forecast future capacity requirements is a growing concern for datacenter operators as they face conflicting factors such as rising costs, power constraints, and meeting the demands of AI workloads.…

We almost got more butterfly keyboards and foldable workstations

Interview  Launched in 1992, the boxy black ThinkPad with its little red nub remains the quintessential business productivity notebook. Unlike commercial offerings from competitors such as Dell and HP, Lenovo's laptop has a following of people who collect old models and celebrate each new innovation.…

Criminals used undocumented techniques and well-placed insiders to remotely withdraw money

A ring of cybercriminals managed to physically implant a Raspberry Pi on a bank's network to steal cash from an Indonesian ATM.…

Budget educational computing is now Google's game to lose

Microsoft is discontinuing support for its Windows 11 SE variant meant to compete with ChromeOS in the education space, leaving schools that chose Microsoft over Google in the lurch just four years after the cloud-based Windows variant was released. …

Community content site aims to profit from real conversation

Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era.…

Plaintext passwords, shared admin accounts, and insufficient logging rampant at mystery org

CISA is using the findings from a recent probe of an unidentified critical infrastructure organization to warn about the dangers of getting cybersecurity seriously wrong.…

Plaintiffs argued that the company massively oversold the assisted-driving capabilities of its cars

After two weeks of testimony, a Florida jury has found Tesla partially responsible for the death of one person and causing serious injuries to another in a crash where the driver was using the company's much-touted Autopilot system.…