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Received β€” 9 April 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors

9 April 2026 at 08:00

Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days

PWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as simple as fitness gear, there's no excuse for leaving security credentials lying around.…

Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

8 April 2026 at 21:09

If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back

interview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware."…

Received β€” 8 April 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

8 April 2026 at 06:53

President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war

Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.…

Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos

7 April 2026 at 23:50

Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way

For years, the infosec community’s biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the world’s secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities.…

Received β€” 7 April 2026 ⏭ The Register - Security

Yahoo<i>!</i> Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

7 April 2026 at 03:21

Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…

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