Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data
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Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers
Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China
No, no nasties to see here, guv…
Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack
Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver’s seat
Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive
Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads
PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare.
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable’s leash
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
Water system controllers don’t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
Calling all defenders
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
What, you didn’t think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again
MIT boffins’ TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier’s Microsoft 365 account
Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data
‘Asimov was right’ about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
Humans will get the AI models they deserve
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks’ products
Beijing’s not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
AI usage is evident but isn’t yet a serious problem
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws
Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home
Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k