Security boss thought MFA would be too much security
One rule for the workers, another for execs [...]
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Chinese cybersecurity company claims it’s built a better-than-Mythos bug finder
Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it’s needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models [...]
Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs
Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors [...]
Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues
Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security [...]
UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found
And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field [...]
Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their choosing’
To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust [...]
The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought [...]
Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit
200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down [...]
London cops bring live facial recognition to West End
'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics [...]
You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials
Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate [...]
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP [...]
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’
Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right [...]
Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI
Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out [...]
OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!
A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge [...]
Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors
Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens [...]
Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims
As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations [...]
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid
London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown [...]
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert
Severe weather event alert platform buzzed devices across the country with the word 'misanthropy' [...]
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day
IT thought a fake offer of extra time off for hard-pressed Canadian medical workers was the way to go [...]
Gizmodo readers hit with ClickFix malware prompts after account compromise
Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly [...]
Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance
VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually [...]
Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones
Owners of affected iPhones can stop checking for patches now: the fix for this SecureROM bug comes in a new handset [...]
Everything's bigger and better in Texas – even data breaches
Hunting and fishing license incident catches 3M residents [...]
Britain's privacy watchdog quits after 'poor judgment' admission
John Edwards says his position had become 'untenable' following investigation into conduct including inappropriate attempts at humor [...]
Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned [...]
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