The Register - Anti-Virus

Cybersecurity is national security, says Jen Easterly

RSAC  America's top cyber-defense agency is "being undermined" by personnel and budget cuts under the Trump administration, some of which are being driven by an expectation of perfect loyalty to the President rather than the nation.…

Feds say $970K scheme defrauded 13+ companies

A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to fraud after landing a job with a contractor working on US government software, and then outsourcing the work to a self-described North Korean developer in China.…

No specific law against it yet, but that's set to change

A spate of high-profile swatting incidents in the US recently forced the FBI into action with its latest awareness campaign about the occasionally deadly practice.…

Go ahead, please do Bash static analysis

Shell scripting may finally get a proper bug-checker. A group of academics has proposed static analysis techniques aimed at improving the correctness and reliability of Unix shell programs.…

A cloud security platform that manages the attack surface and security vulnerabilities in AWS

Sponsored post  You’d be naïve to believe that the cloud is secure by default, and while most hosting services provide basic defenses, it’s not always clear what level of protection these provide.…

Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties

A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…

As Big Tech gets used to the pain, smaller vendors urged to up their game

Google says that despite a small dip in the number of exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2024, the number of attacks using these novel bugs continues on an upward trend overall.…

Former Rear Admiral calls for National Guard online deployment and corporates to be held accountable

RSAC  Russia used to be considered America's biggest adversary online, but over the past couple of years China has taken the role, and is proving highly effective at it.…

Top voices warn that political retaliation puts democracy and national defense at risk

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying.…

Artificial intelligence is helping Beijing's goons break in faster and stay longer

RSAC  The biggest threat to US critical infrastructure, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser, can be summed up in one word: "China."…

FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder

RSAC  Concerned a new recruit might be a North Korean stooge out to steal intellectual property and then hit an org with malware? There is an answer, for the moment at least.…

They’re sorry/not sorry for testing if bots can change minds by pretending to be a trauma counselor or a victim of sexual abuse

Researchers from the University of Zurich have admitted to secretly posting AI-generated material to popular Subreddit r/changemyview in the name of science.…

Who could possibly be behind this attack on an ethnic minority China despises?

Researchers at Canada’s Citizen Lab have spotted a phishing campaign and supply chain attack directed at Uyghur people living outside China, and suggest it’s an example of Beijing’s attempts to target the ethnic minority group.…

Florida man altered allergen info, DoSed former colleagues

Former Disney employee Michael Scheuer was sentenced to 36 months in prison and fined almost $688,000 for screwing up a software application the entertainment giant used to cook up its restaurant menus.…

Sometimes, silence is the best option

Updated  An Oklahoma City cybersecurity professional accused of installing spyware on a hospital PC confirmed on LinkedIn key details of the drama.…

Whistleblowing, email is evidential mail, HR is not your friend, and more discussed by CxO panel

RSAC  Chief security officers should negotiate personal liability insurance and a golden parachute when they start a new job – in case things go sideways and management tries to scapegoat them for a network breach.…

Homeland Security boss Noem added as last-minute keynote, mind you

RSAC  There's a notable absence from this year's RSA Conference that kicked off today in San Francisco: The NSA's State of the Hack panel.…

Think of artificial intelligence as your embedded ally

Sponsored post  AI is reshaping cybersecurity in real time, raising the stakes on both sides of the battlefield. For defenders, it brings speed, precision, and automation at scale, helping security teams detect threats earlier and respond faster than ever. But adversaries aren’t standing still. They’re using AI to sharpen their own tactics, accelerating attacks and probing defenses with unprecedented sophistication.…

It took a 1 year+ probe, plenty of client calls for VeriSource to understand just how much of a yikes it has on its hands

Houston-based VeriSource Services' long-running probe into a February 2024 digital break-in shows the data of 4 million people – not just a few hundred thousand as it first claimed - was accessed by an "unknown actor".…

Image board hints that rumors of a poorly maintained back end may be true

Clearweb cesspit 4chan is back up and running, but says the damage caused by a cyberattack earlier this month was "catastrophic."…