No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK’s secure communications system Skynet.… This article…
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Iran’s cyberattack against med tech firm is ‘just the beginning’
Even without a navy, or air power, ‘They’ll still have the ability to hack’ Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.… This article has been indexed from The Register…
Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug…
Japan to allow ‘proactive cyber-defense’ from October 1st
In less polite places, this is called ‘hacking back’ or ‘offensive cyber-ops’ Japan’s government yesterday decided to allow its Self-Defense Force to conduct offensive cyber-operations, starting on October 1st.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
WorldCoin‘s newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you
Sell your soul to the orb Sam Altman has cooked up a plan to make his cryptocurrency/identity/eyeball-scanning-orb venture more useful by – you guessed it – adding agentic AI to the mix. Now the technology behind it will be used…
EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach
State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.… This article has…
Too big to ignore, too small to be served: the midmarket security gap
Midmarket security leaders aren’t as secure as they think, says Intruder’s report Partner Content The midmarket matters. JP Morgan estimates approximately 300,000 organizations generating $13T in annual revenue. Yet they occupy an awkward position in the security landscape. They’re large enough…
Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn’t noticed yet
SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else Feature BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, was not designed to be secure. It was designed to work – to route packets between the thousands of autonomous systems that make…
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes
Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time…
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because users may be too lazy to check its mistakes
You’ll be exhausted by then because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial task Gartner analyst Dennis Xu has half-jokingly suggested banning use of Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday afternoons, because he fears at that time of week users…
Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats
AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes Australia’s Commonwealth Bank built its own agentic AI threat hunting tools, because vendors are too slow…
Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack
Operations and hospital networks not affected, we’re told Robotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee’s credentials during a phishing attack.… This article has been…
Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war
Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for ‘billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts’ Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated…
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains… for cybercriminals
Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable…
Flaw in UK’s corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records
Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a “security issue” that exposed the personal details of company directors…
Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters
PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.… This article has been indexed from…
Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others
And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users’ credentials, according…
Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns
Operation Synergia’s third season is the most productive to date Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article: Interpol…
NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents
Take your YOLO and box it up exclusive NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project’s commitment to security.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original article:…
Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack
Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser’s tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches…