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)

Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it

(2025/03/11)

Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousands



Google begs owners of crippled Chromecasts not to hit factory reset

(2025/03/10)

Expired security cert kerfuffle leaves second-gen, Audio gadgets useless



Google's Chrome divorce still on the cards as Trump's DoJ plays hardball

(2025/03/10)

$1M donation to inauguration fund and a personal appearance by Pichai appear to have been pointless



Sidewinder goes nuclear, charts course for maritime mayhem in tactics shift

(2025/03/10)

Phishing and ancient vulns still do the trick for one of the most prolific groups around



ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China

(2025/03/10)

Updated Center will reuse and recondition systems returned from field



Rhysida pwns two US healthcare orgs, extracts over 300K patients' data

(2025/03/10)

Terabytes of sensitive info remain available for download



Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards

(2025/03/10)

Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation



How NOT to f-up your security incident response

(2025/03/10)

Feature Experts say that the way you handle things after the criminals break in can make things better or much, much worse



Vodafone: Be in the office 8 days a month or lose bonuses

(2025/03/10)

Exclusive Staff warned that for Q1, non-compliance = 'Disciplinary action'



The NHS security culture problem is a crisis years in the making

(2025/03/10)

Analysis Insiders say board members must be held accountable and drive positive change from the top down



The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?

(2025/03/10)

Comment Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs



Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories

(2025/03/10)

Opinion Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos



Junior techie rushed off for fun weekend after making a terminal mistake that crashed a client

(2025/03/10)

Who, Me? Using one green screen to manage multiple machines needs more than a Friday afternoon brain



Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel

(2025/03/10)

Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders



Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI' and OpenAI-killer

(2025/03/10)

Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed



$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well

(2025/03/10)

It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP



Microsoft admits GitHub hosted malware that infected almost a million devices

(2025/03/10)

Infosec in Brief Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more



India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors

(2025/03/10)

Asia in Brief PLUS: Malaysia teams with Arm for local chip designs; NTT warns of possible breach; Samsung strikers settle; and more



eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank

(2025/03/09)

Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI



We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves

(2025/03/08)

iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security



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"Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of
normal routines, for children and adults alike."
-- Willard F. Libby, "You *Can* Survive Atomic Attack"