The Register The US Dept of Justice will continue pushing for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. This comes after a UK judge blocked Assange’s shipment to the States …
The Register ESET researchers say they have found a lightweight strain of malware that targets multiple OSes and has hit supercomputers, an ISP, and other organisations. Nicknamed Kobalos, the software nasty is said to be …
The Register The US court system has banned the electronic submission of legal documents in sensitive cases out of concern that Russian hackers have compromised the filing system. Full article
The Register UK Research and Innovation, the British government’s science and research organisation, has temporarily turned off a couple of its web-facing services after an apparent ransomware attack. Full article
The Register Cisco’s anti-spam service SpamCop failed to renew spamcop.net over weekend, causing it to lapse, which resulted in countless messages being falsely labeled and rejected as spam around the world. From what we can …
The Register A shipment of laptops supplied to British schoolkids by the Department for Education to help them learn under lockdown came preloaded with malware, The Register can reveal. The affected laptops, supplied to schools …
The Register Messaging platform Slack is first out of the gates of 2021 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP*. 4 January was the first working day of 2021 for many, but as the clock passed …
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The Register Accused hacker and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, Westminster Magistrates’ Court has ruled. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser told Assange this morning that there was …
The Register The Pay2Key ransomware group on Sunday posted what appear to be details of internal files obtained from Habana Labs, an Israel-based chip startup acquired a year ago by Intel. The hacking group, which …
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The Register A former Cisco employee who went medieval on his former employer and cost the company millions, has been sentenced to two years in prison and a $15,000 fine. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh was employed …
The Register Manchester United is working with infosec pros to “minimize the ongoing IT disruption” that it says was caused by an assault on its tech systems. The New York Stock Exchange listed football business …
The Register The US government, in full pre-presidential election high alert, has issued a warning about an evolved strain of backdoor malware from a Russian offensive cyber unit. The Zebrocy backdoor, warned the CISA infosec …