31 Jul

Gene scanner pays $9.8 million to get feds off its back in security flap

Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it

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31 Jul

Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech needs just seconds of audio to spit out a convincing deepfake

Microsoft has upgraded Azure AI Speech so that users can rapidly generate a voice replica with just a few seconds of sampled speech. The personal

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31 Jul

Beijing summons Nvidia over alleged backdoors in China-bound AI chips

China’s internet watchdog has hauled Nvidia in for a grilling over alleged backdoors in its H20 chips, the latest twist in the increasingly paranoid semiconductor

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31 Jul

Kremlin goons caught abusing ISPs to spy on Moscow-based diplomats, Microsoft says

Russian cyberspies are abusing local internet service providers’ networks to target foreign embassies in Moscow and collect intel from diplomats’ devices, according to a Microsoft

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31 Jul

Silk Typhoon spun a web of patents for offensive cyber tools, report says

Security researchers have uncovered more than a dozen patents for offensive cybersecurity tools filed by Chinese companies allegedly tied to Beijing’s Silk Typhoon espionage crew.

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31 Jul

Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with ‘strategic market status’

Britain’s competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status

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31 Jul

NHS disability equipment provider on brink of collapse a year after cyberattack

A major supplier of healthcare equipment to the UK’s National Health Service and local councils is on the verge of collapse 16 months after falling

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31 Jul

Reflections from the First Cyber AI Profile Workshop

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cyber AI Profile Workshop NIST hosted this past April! This work intends to support the cybersecurity and AI

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31 Jul

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Analysis With the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) now in effect, it was only a matter of time before tech-savvy under-18s figured out how to

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31 Jul

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – July 2025 edition

Here’s a look at cybersecurity stories that moved the needle, raised the alarm, or offered vital lessons in July 2025 31 Jul 2025 With another

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31 Jul

Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans

Internet Exchange Points are an underappreciated resource that all internet users rely on, but governments have unfortunately ignored them, despite their status as critical infrastructure.

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31 Jul

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

Analysis Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week. The conflict started

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31 Jul

The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice. US airports have used

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30 Jul

Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.

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30 Jul

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service. The

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30 Jul

Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state’s National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of

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30 Jul

Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today. It’s Palo Alto Network’s largest purchase to date,

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30 Jul

Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data

The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro’s ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid. The SafePay ransomware

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