18 Feb

Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say

Spanish police arrested a hacker who allegedly manipulated a hotel booking website, allowing him to pay one cent for luxury hotel stays. He also raided

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18 Feb

Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes

If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country’s national rail company says that

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18 Feb

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities

TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with “Made in Vietnam” claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains,

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18 Feb

German train line back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes

If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country’s national rail company says that

Author rabih
18 Feb

Your AI-generated password isn’t random, it just looks that way

Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say. AI security company Irregular looked at Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found all

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18 Feb

Notepad++ declares hardened update process ‘effectively unexploitable’

Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project’s author claims makes the “update process robust and effectively unexploitable.” Version 8.9.2 adds verification

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18 Feb

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken “just like an iPhone,” the Netherlands’ defense secretary has claimed. Gijs Tuinman made the comments during a

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18 Feb

HackerOne ‘updating’ Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they’re training AI

HackerOne has clarified its stance on GenAI after researchers fretted their submissions were being used to train its models. A storm erupted on X after

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18 Feb

Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet

If enterprises are implementing AI, they’re not showing it to Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who on Tuesday said business adoption of the tech

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18 Feb

China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using ‘ghost NICs’ to avoid detection

China-linked attackers exploited a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines as a zero-day since at least mid-2024. It’s all part of a

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17 Feb

China remains embedded in US energy networks ‘for the purpose of taking it down’

Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well-known Beijing-backed crew – Volt Typhoon – continued to compromise cellular gateways and

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17 Feb

US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China

A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China. The case

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17 Feb

Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid

Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid. The 47-year-old was cuffed after cops

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17 Feb

UK.gov launches cyber ‘lockdown’ campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

Britain is telling businesses to “lock the door” on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven’t even found the latch. Officials today kicked

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17 Feb

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X’s Grok AI accused of undressing people

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk’s X following repeated reports of harmful image generation

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17 Feb

Is it OK to let your children post selfies online?

Kids Online When it comes to our children’s digital lives, prohibition rarely works. It’s our responsibility to help them build a healthy relationship with tech.

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17 Feb

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK’s defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain’s armed forces. Starmer

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16 Feb

Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news

Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise. The down-filled jacket

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