Iain Thomson
US News Editor and Journalist at The Register
British journo with @TheRegister. For work security and science, for play sailing, F1, and Marmite. All views my own. On Signal, DMs open.
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4 days ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic.
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5 days ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more. In February, the biz informed folks that some miscreants had performed a "sophisticated social engineering attack" and gained access to Insight's servers.
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1 week ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of "touch" to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled. The robot, dubbed Vulcan, consists of two gripping pincers with conveyor belts built in and a pointed probe that's used to push items around. Amazon says that Vulcan can find the right gripping strength for an item and learn on the fly to become more efficient at stowing packages within crates.
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1 week ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers get individually extorted by either the same ransomware crew that hit it – or someone connected to the crooks.
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1 week ago |
theregister.com | Iain Thomson
Air traffic controllers for Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey were horrified when all radar and radio equipment, including backup systems, failed last week, cutting communication with aircraft for 90 seconds. Operators were reportedly in tears, with one experiencing heart palpitations, during the brief blackout on April 28. The outage was apparently down to a single unsheathed copper wire shorting out equipment at the ATC facility located to the southwest in Philadelphia.
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The #RSAC organizers have asked journs to call the show as "The RSAC Conference," which would makes us sound like complete pillocks in print. Got to love the editor of @theregister.com for his response. "No, any complaints complaints from them, tell them to email email me me."
Up with the sun for #RSAC and hoping for some good presentations instead of the usual "X is bad says anti-x maker," and less AI hype. https://t.co/wjuHg7wXqn
Had some abuse for describing The Pirate Bay's Carl Lundström as "far right." If you join a party whose slogan is "Don't let your daughter become a negro toy,' I figured it was fair. Credit to @AndrewOrlowski for "Pirate Bay's neo-Nazi sugar daddy." https://t.co/1K7vv4y8lp
