29 Oct

Sole trader dispatched almost 1M spam texts to hard-up Brits, says watchdog

Britain’s data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message.

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29 Oct

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: When seeing isn’t believing

Deepfakes are blurring the line between real and fake and fraudsters are cashing in, using synthetic media for all manner of scams 29 Oct 2025

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29 Oct

UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO

The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons. The role is advertised

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29 Oct

9 in 10 Exchange servers in Germany still running out-of-support software

Germany’s infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation’s Exchange boxes are still running out-of-support software, a fortnight

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29 Oct

Australian police building AI to translate emoji used by ‘crimefluencers’

Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it

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28 Oct

Clearview AI faces criminal heat for ignoring EU data fines

Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users’ faces without consent to train its AI algorithms. Austria-based

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28 Oct

AI browsers face a security flaw as inevitable as death and taxes

Feature With great power comes great vulnerability. Several new AI browsers, including OpenAI’s Atlas, offer the ability to take actions on the user’s behalf, such

Author rabih
28 Oct

Beatings, killings, and lasting fear: The human toll of MoD’s Afghan data breach

Research submitted to the UK Parliament has revealed explicit threats to life and the deaths of family members and colleagues directly linked to the Ministry

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28 Oct

Google says reports of a Gmail breach have been greatly exaggerated

Panic spread faster than a phishing email on Tuesday after claims of a massive Gmail breach hit the headlines – but Google says it’s all

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28 Oct

Chatbots parrot Putin’s propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

Popular chatbots powered by large language models cited links to Russian state-attributed sources in up to a quarter of answers about the war in Ukraine,

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28 Oct

Recruitment red flags: Can you spot a spy posing as a job seeker?

Business Security Here’s what to know about a recent spin on an insider threat – fake North Korean IT workers infiltrating western firms Phil Muncaster

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28 Oct

Marks & Spencer swaps out TCS for fresh helpdesk deal

UK retailer Marks & Spencer has replaced Tata Consultancy Services as its IT service desk provider following a procurement process that began in January. The

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27 Oct

WSUS attacks hit ‘multiple’ orgs as Google and other infosec sleuths ring Redmond’s alarm bell

More threat intel teams are sounding the alarm about a critical Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59287 and now

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27 Oct

Iran’s school for cyberspies could’ve used a few more lessons in preventing breaches

Iran’s school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students. The Ravin Academy

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27 Oct

Breach at Iran’s cyberspy factory results in leak of student data

Iran’s school for state-sponsored cyberattackers admits it suffered a breach exposing the names and other personal information of its associates and students. The Ravin Academy

Author rabih
27 Oct

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think

Author rabih
27 Oct

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think

Author rabih
27 Oct

Researchers exploit OpenAI’s Atlas by disguising prompts as URLs

Researchers have found more attack vectors for OpenAI’s new Atlas web browser – this time by disguising a potentially malicious prompt as an apparently harmless

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