NASA's solar sailing spacecraft is tumbling – but that's part of the plan
Who needs fuel – or even engines – when you could use the sun to push a spacecraft along?
Science06 Sep 2024 | 3
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Iain is a cybersecurity reporter for The Register. Iain also hosts our Kettle podcast series and other videos. He has more than 20 years of IT publishing experience, holding positions including technical editor and news editor as well as previously Register region editor.
Cisco's Smart Licensing Utility flaws suggest it's pretty dumb on security
Two critical holes including hardcoded admin credential
Security05 Sep 2024 | 4
Security boom is over, with over a third of CISOs reporting flat or falling budgets
Good news? Security is still getting a growing part of IT budget
CSO05 Sep 2024 | 1
Security biz Verkada to pay $3M penalty under deal that also enforces infosec upgrade
Allowed access to 150K cameras, some in sensitive spots, but has been done for spamming
Security05 Sep 2024 | 3
Palo Alto takes a big $500M bite out of IBM QRadar
Big Blue also shifts to Prisma SASE to secure its 250,000 workforce
Security04 Sep 2024 | 2
Do look up! NASA unfurls massive shiny solar sail in orbit
60 years after Arthur C Clarke wrote Sunjammer, space agency catches up
Science04 Sep 2024 | 53
Ex-senior New York State staffer charged in cash-for-favors scandal with China
Bagging two posh properties, three luxury cars on a govt salary a bit of a giveaway – allegedly
Public Sector04 Sep 2024 | 5
US govt halts medical study into Havana Syndrome, cites 'coercion' of participants
What was screwing with minds of US diplomats – wait, is that a black helicopt...
Science04 Sep 2024 | 44
Green Berets storm building after compromising its Wi-Fi
Relax, it's just a drill. This time at least
Security30 Aug 2024 | 23
France charges Telegram CEO with multiple crimes
Testing the idea that a platform boss can be responsible for the acts of others, or not helping to investigate them
Legal30 Aug 2024 | 126
US indicts duo over alleged Swatting spree that targeted elected officials
Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats
Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 20
What a coincidence. Spyware makers, Russia's Cozy Bear seem to share same exploits
Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link
Security29 Aug 2024 | 3
AT&T to shell out $950,000 after quad-state 911 outage
Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced
Networks28 Aug 2024 | 7
Proof-of-concept code released for zero-click critical IPv6 Windows hole
If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do
OSes28 Aug 2024 | 13
Dick's Sporting Goods discloses cyberattack
Authorities probing unwanted intrusion; hard questions ahead
Cyber-crime28 Aug 2024 | 11
Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum
Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 98
Intel's Software Guard Extensions broken? Don't panic
More of a storm in a teacup
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 9
Dr Helen Fisher, MRI maven who showed just how love works, dies at 79
It's all about your chemistry
Science27 Aug 2024 | 11
Microsoft mistake blows up admins' inboxes with fake malware alerts
Updated Legitimate emails misclassified in software snafu
Security26 Aug 2024 | 11
Watchdog warns FBI is sloppy on secure data storage and destruction
update National security data up for grabs, Office of the Inspector General finds
Security26 Aug 2024 | 6
The UN unanimously agrees that cybercrime is bad, mkay?
Infosec in brief Also: British nuke subs get code from Russia; and BlackSuit begs for $500M
Security12 Aug 2024 | 7
Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff
Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds
Science09 Aug 2024 | 51
Hello? Are you talking on a Cisco SPA300 or SPA500 IP phone? Now's the time to junk 'em
Multiple critical flaws found and they won't be fixed
Security09 Aug 2024 | 31
Samsung boosts bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem
Good luck, crackers: It's an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack
Security08 Aug 2024 | 5
SharpRhino malware targets IT admins – Hunters International gang suspected
Fake Angry IP Scanner will make you furious - or maybe remind you of how the Hive gang went about its banal business
Security07 Aug 2024 |
Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off
Updated CEO claims 'illegal boycott' was attack on Musk's version of free speech
Personal Tech06 Aug 2024 | 206
Billion-dollar bust as international op shutters Cryptonator wallet
Chap named 'Roman Boss' accused of being just that at a cryptocash laundering outfit
Cyber-crime06 Aug 2024 | 13
Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors
They're doing you a favor, probably best not to look today
Applications05 Aug 2024 | 12
Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator
Infosec in brief Plus: CISA's AI hire; and claimed Canuck SIM swappers busted
Security05 Aug 2024 | 13
Fortune 50 biz coughed up record-breaking $75M ransom to halt leak of stolen data
They say crime doesn't pay. They're right – it's the victims doing the paying
Cyber-crime02 Aug 2024 | 12
Appeals court kicks fate of net neutrality in America further down the road
Judges wonder out loud: If Congress wanted this, it would have passed a law, no?
Networks02 Aug 2024 | 8
Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money
Kettle 2025 could be Peak Nvidia when reality finally kicks in
AI + ML01 Aug 2024 | 32
CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear
Kettle Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday
CSO19 Jul 2024 | 75
Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert
Kettle And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical
CSO13 Jul 2024 | 7
Despite OS shields up, half of America opts for third-party antivirus – just in case
Wisdom of the oldies or just a traditional fear of malware?
Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 50
Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon
Kettle Vultures chew over a busy few days in orbit with a transatlantic chat
Science02 Jul 2024 | 15
From network security to nyet work in perpetuity: What's up with the Kaspersky US ban?
Kettle It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains
Security22 Jun 2024 | 44
Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale
Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now
Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |
Our vulture survived Computex – now he just needs to tell us the highs and lows
Kettle We all grab a mic and discuss Nvidia, Intel, AMD, strange squid, and a certain CEO's ego
On-Prem08 Jun 2024 | 8
Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks
Kettle Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more 'what we Built' than 'what you can Build'
OSes25 May 2024 | 75
Gawd, after that week, we wonder what's next for China and the Western world
Kettle For starters: Crypto, import tariffs, and Microsoft shipping out staff
Public Sector18 May 2024 | 6
FBI takes down BreachForums ransomware website and Telegram channel
No more illicit gains, for a while at least
Security15 May 2024 | 4
RSA Conference 2024: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying
Kettle If there's one thing infosec needs right now, it's a little pick-me-up
Spotlight on RSA14 May 2024 | 3
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight
Interview On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career
Malware Month08 May 2024 | 24
Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off
Retrospective When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless
Personal Tech05 May 2024 | 162
What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares?
Kettle Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up
Personal Tech04 May 2024 | 32
AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism
Devotees were speaking to an entity who didn't exist – imagine that
Bootnotes03 May 2024 | 139
Block accused of mass compliance failures that saw digi-dollars reach terrorists
Developer of Square and Cash App reportedly has big back-end problems it was slow to fix
Security02 May 2024 | 5
Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what?
Kettle Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all?
AI + ML26 Apr 2024 | 4
Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so
Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders
SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 5
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again
Says the IRS can do this stuff for free
Applications15 Apr 2024 | 67
Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events
Kettle We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to
Systems11 Apr 2024 | 2
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one
With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech
AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34
Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder
Hint: If someone says they're an assassin on the dark web, they're probably not
Offbeat09 Apr 2024 | 37
San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks
What is it with Fog City and ancient transport tech?
Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 124
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience
Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents
AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?
Kettle What happened, how it was found, and what your vultures have made of it all
Research06 Apr 2024 | 93
Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo
First they came for the taxis and I did nothing because I was not a taxi driver
Personal Tech03 Apr 2024 | 40
No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her
Comment Land of the Free has lost its way in quest for profits
Offbeat02 Apr 2024 | 77
Microsoft Teams decouples from Office 365 suite globally
Licenses everywhere can omit collaboration app thanks to EU regulators
Applications02 Apr 2024 | 23
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