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Users of Meta’s WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature

ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that’s just the yeast of everyone’s problems. The extortionist gang also claims to

Chinese state-linked hackers are accused of spending years inside the phones of senior Downing Street officials, exposing private communications at the heart of the UK

France has officially told Zoom, Teams, and the rest of the US videoconferencing herd to take a hike in favor of its own homegrown app.

Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil’s devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB). In the second

Credit: NIST Grab your party hats – it’s Data Privacy Week! Data Privacy Week is a global initiative led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance to

The High Court will hear from privacy campaigners this week who want to reshape the way the Metropolitan Police is allowed to use live facial

Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in real world attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21509,

Digital Security Has your inbox recently been deluged with unwanted and even outright malicious messages? Here are 10 possible reasons – and how to stem

ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself. In

updated The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won’t attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register. Sessions involving

The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery,

Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and

Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland’s power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim. ESET attributed the attack with

Britain’s Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud edge infrastructure to operate AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales. The US tech giant

The UK government has revealed some thinking about digital identity in response to written questions from MPs, while continuing to say next to nothing about

infosec in brief T’was a dark few days for automotive software systems last week, as the third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition uncovered 76 unique zero-day

The UK Home Office is spending up to £100 million on intelligence tech in part to tackle the so-called “small boats” issue of refugees and