January 8, 2025
I tried hard, but didn’t fix all of cybersecurity, admits outgoing US National Cyber Director
In colossal surprise, ONCD boss Harry Coker says more work is needed The outgoing leader of the United States' Office of the National Cyber Director has a clear message for whomever President-elect Trump picks to be his successor: There's a lot of work still to do.…
DNA sequencers found running ancient BIOS, posing risk to clinical research
Devices on six-year-old firmware vulnerable to takeover and destruction Updated Argentine cybersecurity shop Eclypsium claims security issues affecting leading DNA sequencing devices could lead to disruptions in crucial clinical research.…
UN’s aviation agency confirms attack on recruitment database
Various data points compromised but no risk to flight security The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations' aviation agency, has confirmed to The Register that a cyber crim did indeed steal 42,000 records from its recruitment database.…
Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed
Here's what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts up for hijacking by criminals who likely have less altruistic intentions than the security researchers…
Akamai to quit its CDN in China, seemingly not due to trouble from Beijing
Security and cloud compute have so much more upside than the boring business of shifting bits Akamai has decided to end its content delivery network services in China, but not because it’s finding it hard to do business in the Middle Kingdom.…
FCC boss urges speedy spectrum auction to fund ‘Rip’n’Replace’ of Chinese kit
Telcos would effectively fund grants paid to protect national security The outgoing boss of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, has called on her colleagues to "quickly" adopt rules allowing the US regulator to stage a radio spectrum auction, the proceeds of which would fund the removal from American networks…