Almost half a million Lloyds customers had personal data exposed in IT glitch

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Letter from group published by MPs blames 12 March glitch on software update to its mobile banking apps Lloyds Banking Group exposed the personal data of nearly 500,000 customers in an IT glitch that left people’s payments, account details and national insurance numbers visible to other users …

Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach

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Deploying agentic AI in financial services requires additional security controls that address AI-specific risks. This post walks you through comprehensive observability and fine-grained access controls—two critical capabilities for maintaining explainability and accountability in AI systems. You will learn seven design principles and get implementation guidance for meeting regulatory …

Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029

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Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete Banks, governments and technology providers need to be prepared for quantum computer hackers capable of breaking most existing encryption systems by 2029, Google has warned. The tech company said in a blogpost that …

As the US Midterms Approach, AI Is Going to Emerge as a Key Issue Concerning Voters

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In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states’ ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. This action pointedly supported industry lobbyists keen to avoid any constraints and consequences on their deployment …

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

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Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades' worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and nearly every individual on earth. In a post published on Wednesday, Google …

Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

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A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor—and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines. The group, tracked under the name TeamPCP, first gained visibility in December, when researchers from security firm Flare observed it …

Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers

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Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs RSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to …

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