Jessica Lyons

Articles by Jessica Lyons

421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one - The Register

Technology August 13, 2026

This is an epic month for Microsoft patches, though not a record-setting one. Redmond addressed 421 bugs in its own products this month - about 200 fewer CVEs than last month, but likely the new normοΏ½...

Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack - theregister.com

Technology May 1, 2026

Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systemsοΏ½...

Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday: It's raining bugs - theregister.com

Technology April 16, 2026

Attackers exploited a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server before Redmond issued a fix as part of April's mega Patch Tuesday. The monthly patch party included a whopping 165 new MicοΏ½...

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case

Crypto April 10, 2026

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wοΏ½...

Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim

Crypto January 28, 2026

ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that's just the yeast of everyone's problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmunds, iοΏ½...

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

Crypto January 16, 2026

A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz sοΏ½...

Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm - theregister.com

Technology January 15, 2026

Microsoft and Uncle Sam have warned that a Windows bug disclosed today is already under attack. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20805 and discovered by Microsoft's own threat intel team, allows an autοΏ½...

Python libraries in AI/ML models can be poisoned w metadata - theregister.com

Technology January 15, 2026

Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes οΏ½...

Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale

Crypto January 7, 2026

Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or abοΏ½...

One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on

Crypto January 7, 2026

If you don't say "yes way" to MFA, the consequences can be disastrous. Sensitive data belonging to about 50 global enterprises is listed for sale and, in some cases, has already been sold on the darkοΏ½...