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Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers’ details exposed in logistics breach
Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed
Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected
New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs
Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online
OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging
‘Computer History’ records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories
Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you’re actually chatting with the right person
One big caveat, though: You need your contact’s phone number
421 bugs in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one
Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm
Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers
Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi
This is why we can’t have nice things, people
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back
Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M
The backup Microsoft never promised you
SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster
Face-swap software blinked for ‘barely a second,’ giving Spanish cops the break they needed
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub
Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G
Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon’s charity data
CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM
‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Attackers pick Levi’s pockets in social engineering attack
Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data