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Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download
WEBJan 5, 2023 · No word on whether the Christmas day hack of British education secretary Gillian Keegan's Twitter account is related. In that case miscreants took over Keegan's account, changed her profile picture to Elon Musk, and posted a series of tweets promoting cryptocurrencies. Twitter did not respond to The Register's inquiries.. Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale
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BT puts old phone books online - The Register
WEBNov 29, 2007 · BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538.
Ultimate Kronos Group pulls cloud services after ransomware
WEBDec 13, 2021 · Kronos' timekeeping products are used by companies in the UK including supermarket chain Sainsburys, Boots the Chemist and Jaguar Land Rover, and large outfits in the US including Clemson Uni in South Carolina, USA; Winthrop University Hospital in Long Island, New York; and US state and local government customers such as Santa Clara County. "Issues companies will have is employees don't know ...
AWS hits $100 billion revenue run rate, expands margins
WEBMay 1, 2024 · Amazon Web Services is on track to earn $100 billion of revenue in FY2024, has improved its margins, and provides the bulk of its parent company's operating income.
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
WEBAug 14, 2024 · There's also another 9.8 bug, CVE-2024-38140, a use-after-free in the Windows Reliable [sic] Multicast Transport Driver that can be exploited again to achieve remote code execution on a vulnerable computer without authentication needed. "An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending specially crafted packets to a Windows Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) open socket on ...
Capita breach class action nears 1,000 sign-ups • The Register
WEBJul 21, 2023 · The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), Britain's largest private pension plan, also warned its half a million members of the potential dangers, saying data on Capita's servers related to 470,000 active, deferred and retired members, and Capita had advised them to assume some data had been accessed or copied.
Microsoft closes off a Windows 11 requirements workaround
WEBAug 19, 2024 · The Register contacted Microsoft to understand its intentions with the change. The switch still works in the Windows 24H2 update, but the hardware check appears to no longer be bypassed in the latest Canary channel build (27686).
Core Python developer suspended for three months - The Register
WEBAug 9, 2024 · The Python Steering Council has decided to suspend a core Python developer for three months for alleged Code of Conduct violations. Citing the recommendation of the Code of Conduct Working Group, Python developer Thomas Wouters revealed on behalf of the Steering Council that the unidentified developer was deemed to have repeatedly violated the Python Software Foundation (PSF) Code of …