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Trump wants to slash $707M from CISA's budget
15+ hour, 24+ min ago (582+ words) The Register Home Page The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027. America's lead cyber-defense agency already lost millions…...
NHS staff resist using Palantir software
21+ hour, 29+ min ago (352+ words) The Register Home Page Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns. NHS staff, both clinical and otherwise,…...
Maude-HCS helps model and validate covert network designs
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (333+ words) The Register Home Page A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools." HCS, for…...
Fake Claude Code source downloads actually delivered malware
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (414+ words) The Register Home Page Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware. A malicious GitHub repository published by idbzoomh uses the…...
Some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (375+ words) The Register Home Page It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates. According to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen,…...
AI search atomizes our information, warns govt designer
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (272+ words) The Register Home Page Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned. The country's Department for Education's digital services…...
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (361+ words) The Register Home Page Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're…...
Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM attack
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (598+ words) The Register Home Page AI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was "one of thousands of companies" affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise continues to spread. "We recently identified that we were one of…...
Amazon security boss: AI makes pentesting 40% more efficient
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (647+ words) The Register Home Page interview Amazon has seen a 40 percent efficiency gain by using AI tools to pentest its products before and after launch, according to security chief CJ Moses. "And I don't think we've hit the hockey stick of…...
Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (347+ words) The Register Home Page Claude Code will ignore its deny rules, used to block risky actions, if burdened with a sufficiently long chain of subcommands. This vuln leaves the bot open to prompt injection attacks. Adversa, a security firm based…...