27 Jan

High Court to grill London cops over live facial recognition creep

The High Court will hear from privacy campaigners this week who want to reshape the way the Metropolitan Police is allowed to use live facial

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27 Jan

Office zero-day exploited in the wild forces Microsoft OOB patch

Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used in real world attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21509,

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27 Jan

Drowning in spam or scam emails? Here’s probably why

Digital Security Has your inbox recently been deluged with unwanted and even outright malicious messages? Here are 10 possible reasons – and how to stem

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26 Jan

Canva among ~100 targets of ShinyHunters Okta identity-theft campaign

ShinyHunters has targeted around 100 organizations in its latest Okta single sign-on (SSO) credential stealing campaign, according to researchers and the criminal group itself. In

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26 Jan

Feds totally skipping infosec industry’s biggest conference this year

updated The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won’t attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register. Sessions involving

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26 Jan

EU looking into Elon Musk’s X after Grok produces deepfake sex images

The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery,

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26 Jan

Data thieves borrow Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB

Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and

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26 Jan

Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland’s power grid, experts say

Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland’s power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim. ESET attributed the attack with

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26 Jan

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit

Britain’s Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud edge infrastructure to operate AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales. The US tech giant

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26 Jan

UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn’t an ID card

The UK government has revealed some thinking about digital identity in response to written questions from MPs, while continuing to say next to nothing about

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25 Jan

Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 uncovers 76 zero-days, pays out more than $1M

infosec in brief T’was a dark few days for automotive software systems last week, as the third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition uncovered 76 unique zero-day

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24 Jan

UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings

The UK Home Office is spending up to £100 million on intelligence tech in part to tackle the so-called “small boats” issue of refugees and

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24 Jan

CISA won’t attend infosec industry’s biggest conference this year

exclusive The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won’t attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register. “Since the

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23 Jan

Patch or die: VMware vCenter Server bug fixed in 2024 under attack today

You’ve got to keep your software updated. Some unknown miscreants are exploiting a critical VMware vCenter Server bug more than a year after Broadcom patched

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23 Jan

Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds

If you think using Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption

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23 Jan

ShinyHunters claims Okta customer breaches, leaks data belonging to 3 orgs

ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for an Okta voice-phishing campaign during which the extortionist crew allegedly gained access to Crunchbase and Betterment. On Friday, the criminals

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23 Jan

AI-powered cyberattack kits are ‘just a matter of time,’ warns Google exec

CISOs must prepare for “a really different world” where cybercriminals can reliably automate cyberattacks at scale, according to a senior Googler. Heather Adkins, veep of

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23 Jan

ESET Research: Sandworm behind cyberattack on Poland’s power grid in late 2025

ESET Research The attack involved data-wiping malware that ESET researchers have now analyzed and named DynoWiper ESET Research 23 Jan 2026  •  , 1 min.

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