The Register – Security

May 12 … time is ticking for nearly 9,000 schools

New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk

Cybercrooks ruin engineers’ weekends with Saturday attack

That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio

All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Social media biz says watchdog’s fine formula is ‘disproportionate’ and should stop counting global revenue

Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic’s uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference

Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings

Happy World Password Day! Maybe it’s finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?

Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it

Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff

13% say they’ve sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests

MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes

Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech’s data-hungry business models

Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

‘If you don’t have visibility, you can’t understand what to protect’

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Britain’s cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it’s arriving all at once