Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses : Google researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-software .. theregister-com-security / / #technology / / 18 days 18d Share
Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle : Meta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-security / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim : Plus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-security / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers' aides - for years : Reports say Salt Typhoon attackers accessed handsets of senior govt folk ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-security / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative : French govt says state-run service 'Visio' will be more secure. Now where have we heard that name before? theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-data-centre .. theregister-com-software .. theregister-com-security .. theregister-com-business / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds : Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-software .. theregister-com-security / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep : Victim and Big Brother Watch will argue the Met's policies are incompatible with human rights law ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-data-centre .. theregister-com-security .. theregister-com-business / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch : Another actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch - Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes. theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-software .. theregister-com-security / / #technology / / 19 days 19d Share
Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign : Atlassian, RingCentral, ZoomInfo also among tech targets ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com-security .. theregister-com / / #technology / / 20 days 20d Share
EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images : Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool ... theregister.com theregister.com / feeds theregister-com .. theregister-com-security .. theregister-com-data-centre .. theregister-com-personal-tech .. theregister-com-business / / #technology / / 20 days 20d Share