08 May

PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Looks like crooks lied

An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers

Author rabih
08 May

Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows

Canonical’s Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut

Author rabih
08 May

PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Crooks may have lied

An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers

Author rabih
07 May

After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – jobs cuts, leaning on AI

CrowdStrike – the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year – plans to cut five percent of its staff, or

Author rabih
07 May

Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos

A federal judge has cleared the runway for a class action from disgruntled passengers against Delta Air Lines as turbulence from last year’s CrowdStrike debacle

Author rabih
07 May

You’ll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the slurpiest mobile browser of them all? The answer, according to VPN vendor Surfshark, is Chrome. Surfshark’s research

Author rabih
07 May

Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027

AI will almost certainly continue to make elements of cyber intrusion operations more effective and efficient, leading to an increase in frequency and intensity of

Author rabih
07 May

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated “slop” bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort

Author rabih
07 May

Beware of phone scams demanding money for ‘missed jury duty’

When we get the call, it’s our legal responsibility to attend jury service. But sometimes that call won’t come from the courts – it will

Author rabih
07 May

New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts

New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a government

Author rabih
07 May

Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle

A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in

Author rabih
06 May

Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp snoop drama

A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in

Author rabih
06 May

Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

A now-former manager at Computacenter claims he was unfairly fired after alerting management that a colleague was repeatedly giving his girlfriend unauthorized access to Deutsche

Author rabih
06 May

Pentagon declares war on ‘outdated’ software buying, opens fire on open source

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is overhauling its “outdated” software procurement systems, and insists it’s putting security at the forefront of decision-making processes. Katie

Author rabih
06 May

Pentagon declares war on ‘outdated’ software buying

The US Department of Defense (DoD) is overhauling its “outdated” software procurement systems, and insists it’s putting security at the forefront of decision-making processes. Katie

Author rabih
06 May

Toll road scams are in overdrive: Here’s how to protect yourself

Have you received a text message about an unpaid road toll? Make sure you’re not the next victim of a smishing scam. Phil Muncaster 06

Author rabih
06 May

CISA slammed for role in ‘censorship industrial complex’ as budget faces possible $500M cut

President Trump’s dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million – about 17 percent –

Author rabih
05 May

Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate’s Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and

Author rabih
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