31 Jul

Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that

Analysis With the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) now in effect, it was only a matter of time before tech-savvy under-18s figured out how to

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31 Jul

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – July 2025 edition

Here’s a look at cybersecurity stories that moved the needle, raised the alarm, or offered vital lessons in July 2025 31 Jul 2025 With another

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31 Jul

Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans

Internet Exchange Points are an underappreciated resource that all internet users rely on, but governments have unfortunately ignored them, despite their status as critical infrastructure.

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31 Jul

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

Analysis Thai and Cambodian tensions relating to issues including cybersecurity concerns boiled over into a kinetic skirmish at the border last week. The conflict started

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31 Jul

The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

US lawmakers are trying to extend the use of facial recognition at airports, despite many airline passengers objecting to the practice. US airports have used

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30 Jul

Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

Organizations rushing to implement AI are neglecting security and governance, IBM claims, with attackers already taking advantage of lax protocols to target models and applications.

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30 Jul

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service. The

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30 Jul

Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state’s National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of

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30 Jul

Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today. It’s Palo Alto Network’s largest purchase to date,

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30 Jul

Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data

The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro’s ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid. The SafePay ransomware

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29 Jul

CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report – but won’t say when

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks’ poor security

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29 Jul

FBI: Watch out for these signs Scattered Spider is spinning its web around your org

The FBI and a host of international cyber and law enforcement agencies on Tuesday warned that Scattered Spider extortionists have changed their tactics and are

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29 Jul

Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 update fixes old bugs and dares you to break it again

The Raspberry Pi team has released an update to the RP2350 microcontroller with bug fixes, hardening, and a GPIO tweak that will delight retro hardware

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29 Jul

War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports

The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament

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29 Jul

The hidden risks of browser extensions – and how to stay safe

Digital Security Not all browser add-ons are handy helpers – some may contain far more than you have bargained for Phil Muncaster 29 Jul 2025

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28 Jul

Microsoft spotlights Apple bug patched in March as SharePoint exploits continue

Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft

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28 Jul

Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it’s making everything more dangerous

Too many threats, too much data, and too few skilled security analysts are making companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the IT and security

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28 Jul

Majority of 1.4M customers caught in Allianz Life data heist

Financial services biz Allianz says the majority of customers of one of its North American subsidiaries had their data stolen in a cyberattack. Lawyers acting

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