Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue Microsoft says that it will […]
Month: April 2026
Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets
Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload Hackers have been […]
Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment
Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash UK-listed oil and gas […]
Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions
The core product is solid and priced fairly I’ve spent over a decade telling anyone who’d listen that S3 is […]
UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown
Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses The British government is spending […]
Capita’s pension portal exposes civil servants’ private data
As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren’t enough Capita has limited the online functionality of its […]
UK.gov’s top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns
DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting […]
Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action
Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings The Microsoft and ValueLicensing legal tussle will enter an […]
Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter
The time is maybe Quantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it’s both a […]
Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of ’80s horrors
Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share […]