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Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed

1 May 2026 at 09:15

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year

The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of Β£576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers.…

Received β€” 30 April 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Britain's Β£6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops

30 April 2026 at 08:45

Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves

Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.…

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet

30 April 2026 at 08:00

Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.…

Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm

29 April 2026 at 20:11

ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength

GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.…

Received β€” 29 April 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool

29 April 2026 at 15:35

GrassMarlin leaks sensitive information, provided your targeting phishing skills are sharp enough

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), about a new vulnerability that attackers can use to snoop on sensitive information.…

GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash

29 April 2026 at 13:02

Claude ploughs through months of work in rapid time, helps Wiz researchers nab lucrative award

Wiz researchers are set for a tidy payday thanks to their discovery of a high-severity flaw in GitHub's git infrastructure that handed remote attackers full read/write access to private GitHub repositories using a single command.…

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