Dutch cops’ shame game works wonders as most wanted scammers now turned in
Netherlands police’s scheme to unmask and shame scammers into submission is proving highly successful, with 74 of its 100 most […]
Month: May 2026
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio
Europe’s hunt for secure, high-capacity satellite communications infrastructure has produced a laser-equipped mountaintop ground station in northern Greece. Lithuanian space […]
Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users
Another Linux kernel flaw has handed local unprivileged users a way to peek at files they should never be able […]
TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack
The TanStack team has documented security measures and proposals following a damaging breach last week, including the possibility of making […]
‘Big AI’ is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms
The AI industry is copying techniques used by tobacco firms, big pharma and oil companies to influence governmental policy and […]
NGINX Rift attackers waste no time targeting exposed servers
Exploit attempts are already hammering a newly disclosed NGINX bug dubbed “NGINX Rift,” proving once again that attackers read patch […]
Microsoft remembers that taskbars used to move
Microsoft has begun rolling out tweaks to the Windows 11 experience to make good on its promise to “fix” the […]
Samsung’s weather app sparks storm of controversy by handing territory to North Korea
ASIA IN BRIEF Samsung found itself facing down controversy in South Korea last week, when the weather app pre-installed on […]
Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its GitHub account
Observability outfit Grafana Labs has revealed that an attacker accessed its GitHub repository and stole its codebase. In social media […]
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
WHO, ME? Welcome to Monday morning, the time of week when The Register always asks “Who, Me?” because that’s the […]