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March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities – none listed as under active attack or already known to the public.…
Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints
Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth cloud startup An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for "brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct" – and by that, they mean he allegedly stole confidential documents to help him…
Biden’s budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B
Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve an extra $103 million in funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, bringing CISA's total budget to $3 billion.…
JetBrains is still mad at Rapid7 for the ransomware attacks on its customers
War of words wages on between vendors divided Last week, we wrote about how security outfit Rapid7 threw JetBrains, the company behind the popular CI/CD platform TeamCity, under the bus over allegations of silent patching. Now, JetBrains has gone on the offensive.…
UK council yanks IT systems and phone lines offline following cyber ambush
Targeting recovery this week, officials still trying to 'dentify the nature of the incident' Leicester City Council says IT systems and a number of its critical service phone lines will remain down until later this week at the earliest following a "cyber incident".…
French government sites disrupted by très grande DDoS
Russia and Sudan top the list of suspects Several French government websites have been disrupted by a severe distributed denial of service attack.…
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers’ pain
US senator calls cyber attack 'inexcusable,' calls for mandatory security rules The Biden administration and US lawmakers are turning up the pressure on UnitedHealth group to ease medical providers' pain after the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, by expediting payments to hospitals, physicians and pharmacists – among other…
Kremlin accuses America of plotting cyberattack on Russian voting systems
Don't worry, we have a strong suspicion Putin's still gonna win The Kremlin has accused the United States of meddling in Russia's upcoming presidential election, and even accused Uncle Sam of planning a cyberattack on the country's online voting system.…
British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild
Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.…
How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO
And does it count as consent? The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on "consent or pay" business models. We're sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.…