August 13, 2025
Crooks can’t let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago
CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018 Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a "better time" when this was all fields and kids respected their elders - and it looks like…
UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you
Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policing." Privacy campaigners disagree.…
Marc Andreessen wades into the UK’s Online Safety Act furor
Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK's Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.…
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector’s only viable option
For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be Register debate series Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year in…
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time Updated The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of "high severity protocol vulnerabilities," addressed in the latest version, saying patching them requires a breaking change in…