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Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

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Microsoft published a blog post on Wednesday criticising a security researcher known as “Nightmare Eclipse” for publicly disclosing a series of unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows Defender and BitLocker. The company then invoked its Digital Crimes Unit, which handles criminal referrals and law enforcement coordination. The cybersecurity community responded with outrage. The bugs, named BlueHammer, RedSun, […]

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Dutch police seized 800 servers used by Russian hackers to attack Europe

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Dutch financial crime investigators have seized 800 servers and arrested two men in a crackdown on hosting companies that provided infrastructure for Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks across Europe. The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) raided two data centres last week and shut down servers operated by WorkTitans and MIRhosting, two companies suspected of violating […]

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NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET

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NATO has signed strategic cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET, formalising what the alliance describes as non-commercial agreements to strengthen collective resilience in cyberspace. The partnerships were announced on 27 May at the International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn, Estonia, the annual gathering organised by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of […]

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YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not

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YouTube has announced that it will begin automatically detecting and labelling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI-generated content, using internal signals rather than relying on creators to disclose it themselves. The change marks a shift from the platform’s existing system, which has depended on voluntary creator disclosure since it launched in 2024. The automatic labels […]

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The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

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The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […]

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Iran-linked hackers reached LA Metro’s rail-yard control display in March, Israeli firm finds

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Iranian hackers were behind the cyber-attack that forced parts of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority offline in March, according to research published on Tuesday by Gambit Security, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity firm that says it traced 700 gigabytes of stolen emails, backups and other files back to a server tied to a previously identified Iranian […]

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Most organisations still store their passwords wrong. Here is what actually works.

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A password manager feels like a solved problem. Pick one, store your credentials, move on. Yet breach after breach tells a different story: compromised passwords remain the single most common entry point for attackers, responsible for over 80 per cent of hacking-related breaches according to Verizon’s annual data breach report. The issue is rarely that […]

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The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

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On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature flags and references to an unreleased model codenamed Mythos, sat openly accessible on a Cloudflare storage bucket until a security researcher found it and posted […]

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HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

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HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs upwards of £4,000, and the EliteBook X G1a. The updates were flagged as critical, meaning they were applied automatically with no user intervention required. Complaints have […]

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Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.

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Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Gulf’s ambition to become a global AI hub is facing its first real stress test. Before the conflict began […]

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