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Not so fast, says infosec boffin, because crims know returning workers will be easy prey Laura Dobberstein Wed 3 Mar 2021 // 05:58 UTC Share Copy Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky has suggested that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic will bring a slowdown in cyber-crime. Speaking yesterday at the Kaspersky-sponsored Asia Pacific Online Policy Forum, the CEO said: "If the pandemic goes away, criminals will go away and on vacation.” He added that one reason for the slowdown would be taking time to spend all the money they stole during the pandemic, and that a return to robb...

Richard Speed Mon 1 Mar 2021 // 10:28 UTC Share Copy The UK's cathedrals of geekdom are set to reopen in May as The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) celebrated the successful conclusion of its retro-themed Microlympics. By all accounts, the Microlympics event (which had various age groups play a variety of retro games on a BBC emulator) was a great success for TNMOC as scores were notched up in classic games like Elite and Revs (both of which demonstrated this hack is as awful now as he was then at anything that didn't involve solving Scott Adams' or Infocom's pu...

Real names, usernames, and what appeared to be SHA-1 hashed passwords* exposed Gareth Corfield Mon 22 Feb 2021 // 17:30 UTC Share Copy Updated Daycare camera product NurseryCam was hacked late last week with the person behind the digital break-in coming forward to tip us off. News of NurseryCam's compromise was conveyed to the company by The Register just after 5pm on Friday, leading the firm to tell parents: "On 17:18 Friday 19th February 2021, it has come to our attention of a cyber incident detected in our NurseryCam system." The BBC reported the news on Saturday, ...

Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more Katyanna Quach Mon 22 Feb 2021 // 12:21 UTC Share Copy In brief Google has finished its probe into the controversial ousting of Timnit Gebru, co-leader of its Ethical AI unit. The ad giant promised to implement new procedures around “potentially sensitive employee exits,” though it did not make its findings public. Gebru said she was fired for warning coworkers in an internal memo that, due to management apathy, it was a waste of energy trying to foster diversity, equality, and inclusion within the Sili...

Well, that's a new one Matthew Hughes Thu 18 Feb 2021 // 09:30 UTC Share Copy Anyone familiar with contacting a tech support helpdesk has heard the groan-inducing line: "Have you turned it on and off again?" For that reason, we can't help but doff our cap to indie ISP Zen Internet, which instructed one customer beset by connectivity drops to contact his MP. The suggestion was made to one El Reg reader in North Leatherhead who contacted the Rochdale-based ISP after experiencing repeated disconnections and a marked slump in network performance. Alan Brown, a network man...