Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have…
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Trump’s Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle
Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump’s Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.… This…
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins
Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers – utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic – according to filings with federal regulators.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Medical and utility tech companies hacked by digital intruders
Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers – utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic – according to filings with federal regulators.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
Trump’s Golden Dome gets $3.2BN of contractors and an AI sprinkle
Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump’s Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.… This…
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet
Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from…
Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt
Security giant says attackers grabbed ‘limited set’ of data. Crooks claim 10 million records A home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look – but that’s exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber…
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now
Keep the patches away for as long as you like Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.… This…
ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds
UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs The UK’s data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner’s Office while an independent workplace…
Anthropic’s magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now
AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that Opinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers,…
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now
Join us for this week’s Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year’s Google…
AI’s not going to kill open source code security
Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent…
Hot take: AI’s not going to kill open source code security
Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent…
Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data
Coming in cold with custom Snow malware A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics – Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation – is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google’s Threat…
US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit
Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere America’s telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.… This article has…
ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival’s booty as 7.5M emails surface
Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of records Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email…
Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network
Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency A US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed…
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop
One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it’s gone, it no longer matters if it’s…
Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table
Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again… now it has to build the chips Intel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center…
It’s a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well
OpenAI’s first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic’s Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup…