Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight. Big Brother Watch says

Amid the furor around surging VPN usage in the UK, many users are eyeing proxies as a potential alternative to the technology. A proxy server

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Black Hat Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it’s much easier and cheaper just to hack them.

Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German

Microsoft and the feds late Wednesday sounded the alarm on another high-severity bug in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate privileges

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Black Hat Neil “Grifter” Wyler is spending the week “looking for a needle in a needle stack,” a task he’ll perform from the network operations

CISA has published a malware analysis report with compromise indicators and Sigma rules for “ToolShell” attacks targeting specific Microsoft SharePoint Server versions. Microsoft SharePoint victim

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European airline giants Air France and KLM say they are the latest in a string of major organizations to have their customers’ data stolen by

Meta’s enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a

Amnesty International claims Elon Musk’s X platform “played a central role” in pushing the misinformation that stoked racially charged violence following last year’s Southport murders.

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Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance. The prototype, called Project Ire, reverse engineers software

Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers. In a late-Tuesday update to

Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by