ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying

(2022/03/16)

Ingenuity's Earth-side coding team has expanded, and so has its rover-assistance mission



Salesforce sued in attempt to block release of Capitol riot info

(2022/03/16)

CRM giant pleased to be named yet again on World's Most Ethical Companies list



The Windows malware on Ukraine CERT's radar

(2022/03/16)

Government agencies impersonated, fake antivirus, another wiper, backdoors



China's internet regulator squeezes famously freewheeling Reddit-alike

(2022/03/16)

App already banned, now it's getting very close supervision



Apple delivers desktop, mobile OS updates, patches dozens of security holes

(2022/03/16)

Plus: Face ID can recognize you with a mask on, kinda



Kubernetes container runtime CRI-O has make-me-root flaw

(2022/03/16)

Cr8escape priv-escalation bug opens the door to cluster takeovers



OpenSSL patches crash-me bug triggered by rogue certs

(2022/03/15)

Bad data can throw vulnerable apps and services for an infinite loop



Microsoft Azure DevOps revives TLS 1.0/1.1 with rollback

(2022/03/15)

Planned deprecation didn't go as planned, cloud biz aims to try again at the end of March



SentinelOne pays $617m for identity biz Attivo Networks

(2022/03/15)

Security consolidation du jour



UK Supreme Court snubs Assange anti-extradition bid

(2022/03/15)

Home Secretary ponders putting WikiLeaker on one-way US flight



Huge DDoS attack temporarily kicks Israeli government sites offline

(2022/03/15)

A state of emergency is declared as officials assess the damage and look for culprits



Vultr aims at the big clouds with new virtual machines

(2022/03/15)

Rolls out first Epyc products the same week Google announces cloud infra price rise



AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens

(2022/03/15)

Sub-$299 Zen 3 desktop chips throw wrench into Intel wheelhouse



Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus

(2022/03/15)

Nation's cybersecurity agency has doubts about Russian firm's reliability



Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany

(2022/03/15)

x86 giant also expands manufacturing in Ireland, plus R&D and packaging across Europe



Russian demand for VPNs skyrockets by 2,692%

(2022/03/15)

Virtual iron curtains are a lot harder to keep free of holes



Telecoms growth forecast for 2022 may be optimistic

(2022/03/15)

Analyst view: 4Q21 drop plus strains from war mean component shortages drag on



Microsoft slides ads into Windows Insiders' File Explorer

(2022/03/15)

It was a mistake, vendor tells The Register



Research finds data poisoning can't defeat facial recognition

(2022/03/15)

Someone can just code an antidote and you're back to square one



UK criminal defense lawyer hadn't patched when ransomware hit

(2022/03/15)

Brit solicitor fined after admitting it took 5 months to install critical update



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A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should
be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
-- R. A. Heinlein