NatWest blocks bevy of messenger apps on staff devices
6 hours ago · Thu 14 Nov 2024 // 10:53 UTC. The full list of messaging apps officially blocked by Brit banking and insurance giant NatWest Group is more extensive than WhatsApp, Meta's Messenger, and Skype – as first reported. BBC broke the news of the banking group formally banning the three apps on November 12, but The Register now understands the list ...
Start-Rite confirms customer payment breach • The Register
5 hours ago · Thu 14 Nov 2024 // 11:57 UTC. Children's shoemaker Start-Rite is dealing with a nasty "security incident" involving customer payment card details, its second significant lapse during the past eight years. That's according to a recent notification sent to customers, seen by The Register, which didn't clarify exactly what the nature of that ...
Embargo ransomware claims breach of US pharmacy network
22 hours ago · Wed 13 Nov 2024 // 19:10 UTC. American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is the latest US healthcare organization to have had its data stolen and encrypted by cyber-crooks, it is feared. The criminals over at the Embargo ransomware operation claimed responsibility for the hit job, allegedly stealing 1.469 TB of AAP's data, scrambling its files, and ...
TSMC facing discrimination lawsuit from US employees
19 hours ago · Wed 13 Nov 2024 // 22:27 UTC. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been accused of “pervasive discrimination” against some of its workers in the USA. A similar accusation was levelled in August by a single former HR staffer at TSMC North America. An amended complaint [PDF] filed last week saw another 12 additional current ...
Apple's iCloud hit with £3 billion overcharging claim
11 hours ago · UK consumer group Which? has filed a £3 billion action against Apple over alleged competition law breaches related to its iCloud service. The claim alleges that the iPhone maker locked customers into iCloud and charged them handsomely for the privilege. Which? claims that around 40 million Apple customers in the UK who have obtained iCloud services in the last nine years could be affected ...
Fujitsu does not trust Post Office use of Horizon data
2 days ago · Tue 12 Nov 2024 // 11:53 UTC. Fujitsu's Europe boss has told a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal — one of the widest miscarriages of justice in UK history — that the company does not trust the UK public body in its use of Horizon system data to support future police prosecutions. Speaking at the inquiry this week, Paul Patterson ...
The Reg takes AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D for a spin • The Register
Nov 7, 2024 · Review AMD is officially launching its hotly anticipated next-gen X3D desktop processors based on the Zen 5 architecture today, which means The Register can let you know about the 8-core Ryzen 9800X3D we've personally taken for a spin.. The X3D series comes specially packaged with an additional slice of L3 cache on top of the pre-existing L3 cache. The vertically stacked L3 cache that gives ...
UK regulator hints Voda-Three merger will get thumbs up
Dan Robinson. Tue 5 Nov 2024 // 11:25 UTC. Britain's competition regulator says it is minded to approve the merger of telcos Vodafone and Three UK, if the pair commit to network upgrades and short-term customer safeguards against higher bills. "We believe this deal has the potential to be pro-competitive for the UK mobile sector if our concerns ...
Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%
Nov 6, 2024 · The patch is a rewrite of one originally submitted by Red Hat developer Josh Poimboeuf, which Torvalds revised to make faster. "The kernel test robot reports a 2.6 percent improvement in the per_thread_ops benchmark," he wrote in the commit. Torvalds's version avoids using the barrier_nospec () API, which prevents speculative execution of some ...
Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats • The Register
Mar 1, 2024 · Webinar Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it's not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling - last year, they rose by 38 percent according to Google Cloud.