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Received today — 31 March 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines

✇The Register - Security
31 March 2026 at 10:29

Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios

One of npm's most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer's account and slipped a remote-access trojan (RAT) into two seemingly legitimate axios releases, in what's being described as "one of the most impactful npm supply chain attacks on record."…

Received yesterday — 30 March 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

✇The Register - Security
30 March 2026 at 07:30

Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences

Who, Me? The week before Easter may be a short one for many in the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from opening it with a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of things you did at work that had interesting consequences.…

US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’

✇The Register - Security
30 March 2026 at 04:31

Public policy professor says it will make America less secure but hits Netgear’s lobbying goals

The United States’ ban on foreign-made SOHO routers won’t improve security, and only makes sense as “industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity,” according to Milton Mueller, Professor at the University of Georgia’s School of Public Policy and founder of its Internet Governance Project.…

Received — 27 March 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security
Received — 26 March 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war

✇The Register - Security
25 March 2026 at 18:55

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC…

rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.…

Received — 25 March 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs

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25 March 2026 at 07:29

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…

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