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Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production

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Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to Novo Nordisk and Abbott Laboratories, and almost none of the incidents involve the kind of exotic technique that Google’s […]

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87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China

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Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resulting damage at €289.2bn. What is new in this year’s report is not the trend but the method, because Bitkom has combined […]

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EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows

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Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc’s own cyber defence unit told national governments so in July. An internal presentation lists “account takeover targeting high-ranking officials” among the top threats facing the bloc this year. Sam Clark obtained the document for Politico. It is the […]

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Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

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Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state issued on 20 August and announced on Monday. OpenAI […]

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Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions

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Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok […]

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WhatsApp is replacing its six-digit security PIN with a real password

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WhatsApp is replacing the six-digit PIN used for two-step verification with a full alphanumeric password, and says more than a billion users have already created a passkey. Android users will also see extra context about calls from people not in their contacts. WhatsApp has quietly become the largest passwordless deployment on the planet. Announcing a […]

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AI firms debate connecting test sandboxes to the internet after breaches

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After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generation precisely to prevent collateral damage. The industry’s response to AI models escaping their test environments may be to […]

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Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone

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Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a camera in the car, and it […]

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A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery

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An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it since March and it now sits on more than 10 million devices. It is a diagnostic tool with no user interface that flags software consuming unusual system resources. Millions of Android owners spent the weekend […]

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Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days

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A cyber attack shut down a small British power plant for four days in July. Hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime were responsible, according to the Telegraph. Tony Diver, Rozina Sabur and Matt Oliver broke the story on Saturday. It is thought to be the first time hackers linked to Tehran have closed such a […]

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