10 Feb

Taxing times: Top IRS scams to look out for in 2026

It’s time to file your tax return. And cybercriminals are lurking to make an already stressful period even more edgy. Phil Muncaster 10 Feb 2026

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09 Feb

Someone’s attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials – but we don’t know who or how

Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims’ IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according

Author rabih
09 Feb

More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

It’s a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster. This time around, SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE threat

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09 Feb

Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.

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09 Feb

Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain’t going anywhere

Taiwan’s vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent of the country’s semiconductor production to the US, calling the Trump administration’s goal “impossible.” In an interview

Author rabih
09 Feb

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers. Today’s compilers boil down code

Author rabih
09 Feb

Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe’s top destination for tech pay

European techies looking for the biggest payday are far better off in Switzerland than anywhere else, with average salaries eclipsing all other countries on the

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09 Feb

European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend

Brussels is digging into a cyber break-in that targeted the European Commission’s mobile device management systems, potentially giving intruders a peek inside the official phones

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09 Feb

Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on third party

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customer emails seen by The Register. The hack transpired on February 5, an email to

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09 Feb

Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents

Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with

Author rabih
08 Feb

Telcos aren’t saying how they fought back against China’s Salt Typhoon attacks

Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal. The tie-up

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07 Feb

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees. Annie Coleman, founder of consultancy RealiseLongevity, analyzed

Author rabih
06 Feb

Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party

Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register. The hack transpired on February 5, an email to

Author rabih
06 Feb

DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records

Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the

Author rabih
06 Feb

Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome’s attempts to make it harder

Chrome’s latest revision of its browser extension architecture, known as Manifest v3 (MV3), was widely expected to make content blocking and privacy extensions less effective

Author rabih
05 Feb

OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks

Another day, another vulnerability (or two, or 200) in the security nightmare that is OpenClaw. Researchers, over the last two days, have disclosed additional issues

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05 Feb

Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach

Newsletter platform Substack has admitted that an intruder swiped user contact details months before the company noticed, forcing it to warn writers and readers that

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05 Feb

Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries

A state-aligned cyber group in Asia compromised government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries in an ongoing espionage campaign, according to security researchers. In

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