July 17, 2025
Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China
Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then…
Watch out, another max-severity, make-me-root Cisco bug on the loose
Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code…
Quantum code breaking? You’d get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates
It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing Microsoft has extended its security update programs for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, and Skype for Business 2015 and 2019.…