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

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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

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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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05 Feb

Betterment breach may expose 1.4M users after social engineering attack

Breach-tracking site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) claims a cyberattack on Betterment affected roughly 1.4 million users – although the investment company has yet to

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05 Feb

Italy claims cyberattacks ‘of Russian origin’ are pelting Winter Olympics

Italy’s foreign minister says the country has already started swatting away cyberattacks from Russia targeting the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. Antonio Tajani told reporters on

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05 Feb

n8n security woes roll on as new critical flaws bypass December fix

Multiple newly disclosed bugs in the popular workflow automation tool n8n could allow attackers to hijack servers, steal credentials, and quietly disrupt AI-driven business processes.

Author rabih
05 Feb

Cloud sovereignty is no longer just a public sector concern

Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much it matters – vary

Author rabih
05 Feb

Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

Sleeper agent-style backdoors in AI large language models pose a straight-out-of-sci-fi security threat. The threat sees an attacker embed a hidden backdoor into the model’s

Author rabih
05 Feb

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company’s executive veep for security, into the new

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04 Feb

AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say

A digital intruder broke into an AWS cloud environment and in just under 10 minutes went from initial access to administrative privileges, thanks to an

Author rabih
04 Feb

Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug under attack

Attackers are exploiting a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug – less than a week after the vendor disclosed and fixed the 9.8-rated flaw. That’s

Author rabih
04 Feb

Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can’t unlock your files

Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who have been targeted by the Nitrogen group. There’s

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