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123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with

SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups. The network security

Japanese media behemoth Nikkei has admitted to a data breach after miscreants slipped into its internal Slack workspace, exposing the personal details of more than

Partner Content UK GDPR Article 32 mandates “appropriate security measures”. The ICO has defined what that means: multi-million-pound fines for password failures. The violations that

Google’s second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32

Google’s second attempt to acquire cloud security firm Wiz is going a lot better than the first, with the Department of Justice clearing the $32

AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-62626

Nation-state goons and cybercrime rings are experimenting with Gemini to develop a “Thinking Robot” malware module that can rewrite its own code to avoid detection,

Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total. The British retailer disclosed the figure in its half-year

Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he’s given it a favorable report. The modestly

How a fast-growing scam is tricking WhatsApp users into revealing their most sensitive financial and other data Christian Ali Bravo 05 Nov 2025  •  ,

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c $407 million) modernizing its IT estate, including replacing tens of

If you’re filing an immigration form – or helping someone who is – the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your

Russia’s Curly COMrades is abusing Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor in compromised Windows machines to create a hidden Alpine Linux-based virtual machine that bypasses endpoint security tools,

The infosec program run by the US’ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) “is not effective,” according to a fresh audit published by the Office of

Microsoft Teams, one of the world’s most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat history,

Researchers are seeing a “dramatic” increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.

Hackers have found a new use for OpenAI’s Assistants API – not to write poems or code, but to secretly control malware. Microsoft this week