Iran's school for cyberspies could've used a few more lessons in preventing breaches
Iran's school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students.…
EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants
Europe's efforts to reduce reliance on US hyperscalers is under fire from many of the local cloud providers it is designed to help.…
The Chinese Box and Turing Test: AI has no intelligence at all
Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT's AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching and canned responses. Nearly 60 years later, ChatGPT has people making the same mistake. Chatbots don't think – they've just gotten exponentially better at pretending.…
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…
As AI agents join SaaS, AWS tells users to expect more pricing puzzles
Interview As agentic AI solutions flood the market, users will face a complex environment in terms of deployment and commercial models, with standard practices yet to be resolved, says Olawale Oladehin, AWS director, solutions architecture.…
Researchers exploit OpenAI's Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs
Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI's new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless URL.…
OpenAI goes after Microsoft 365 Copilot's lunch with 'company knowledge' feature
Updated OpenAI is chalenging Microsoft 365 Copilot with "company knowledge," a new ChatGPT feature that connects to organizational data to generate business-specific answers.…
X says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com
X (formerly Twitter) sparked security concerns over the weekend when it announced users must re-enroll their security keys by November 10 or face account lockouts — without initially explaining why.…
Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams
Ex-CISA head Jen Easterly claims AI could spell the end of the cybersecurity industry, as the sloppy software and vulnerabilities that criminals rely on will be tracked down faster than ever.…
Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection
The UK government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has saved £4.4 million over three years by using machine learning to tackle fraud, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). However, the public spending watchdog found the department's ability to expand this work is limited by fragmented IT systems and poor cross-government data standards.…
The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse
Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer "tech journalist," you never get asked about cloud infrastructure in return. Bitcoin, mobile phones, AI, yes. Until last week: "What's this AWS thing, then?" You already knew a lot of people were having a very bad day in Bezosville, but if the news had reached an Edinburgh black cab driver, new adjectives were needed.…
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
Who, Me? Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your greatest misses, and how you rebuilt a career afterward.…
Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options
Asia In Brief Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission on Monday commenced legal proceedings against Microsoft for allegedly misleading users of its Microsoft 365 bundle.…
UN Cybercrime Treaty wins dozens of signatories, to go with its many critics
The United Nations on Saturday staged a signing ceremony for the Convention against Cybercrime, the world’s first agreement to combat online crime. And while 72 nations picked up the pen, critics continue to point out the convention’s flaws.…
Shaq's new ride gets jaq'ed in haq attaq
Infosec In Brief Former basketball star Shaquille O'Neal is 7'1" (215 cm), and therefore uses car customization companies to modify vehicles to fit his frame. But it appears cybercriminals have targeted Shaq’s preferred motor-modder.…
High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses
The feds on Thursday charged alleged mafia associates and current and former National Basketball Association players and coaches with running rigged poker games and illegal sports betting.…
MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech
The UK's Home Secretary should use her powers to push the tech industry to deploy stronger technical measures against the surge in phone thefts, according to a House of Commons committee.…
Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI
Computer scientists at UC Berkeley say that AI models show promise as a way to discover and optimize algorithms.…
Everybody's warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits ... but Microsoft's mum
Governments and private security sleuths warned that attackers are already exploiting a critical bug in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, shortly after Redmond pushed an emergency patch for the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.…
Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data
updated Microsoft fixed a security hole in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed attackers to trick the AI assistant into stealing sensitive tenant data – like emails – via indirect prompt injection attacks.…
