28 Jan

Fortinet unearths another critical bug as SSO accounts borked post-patch

Things aren’t over yet for Fortinet customers – the security shop has disclosed yet another critical FortiCloud SSO vulnerability. Those hoping for a reprieve following

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28 Jan

Old Windows quirks help punch through new admin defenses

Microsoft patched a bevy of bugs that allowed bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection before the feature was made available earlier this month. James Forshaw, security

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28 Jan

Love? Actually: Fake dating app used as lure in targeted spyware campaign in Pakistan

ESET researchers have uncovered an Android spyware campaign leveraging romance scam tactics to target individuals in Pakistan. The campaign uses a malicious app posing as

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27 Jan

Paranoid WhatsApp users rejoice: Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle

Users of Meta’s WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature

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27 Jan

Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim

ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that’s just the yeast of everyone’s problems. The extortionist gang also claims to

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27 Jan

China-linked group accused of spying on phones of UK prime ministers’ aides – for years

Chinese state-linked hackers are accused of spending years inside the phones of senior Downing Street officials, exposing private communications at the heart of the UK

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27 Jan

France to replace US videoconferencing wares with unfortunately named sovereign alternative

France has officially told Zoom, Teams, and the rest of the US videoconferencing herd to take a hike in favor of its own homegrown app.

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27 Jan

Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid’s tech, data protection ruling finds

Microsoft illegally installed cookies on a school pupil’s devices without consent, according to a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority (DSB). In the second

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27 Jan

Celebrating Data Privacy Week with NIST’s Privacy Engineering Program

Credit: NIST Grab your party hats – it’s Data Privacy Week! Data Privacy Week is a global initiative led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance to

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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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