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The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it

In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m award from the Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Fires. The company […]

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CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout

CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week’s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partnership, announced at the company’s Fal.Con conference in Las Vegas, has two halves. CrowdStrike […]

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A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions

Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court software business sells to judiciaries. The records involved come from appellate courts in a dozen US jurisdictions and from Ontario, Canada. The company detected the activity in its cloud environment on 30 June, according to Reuters, which is […]

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A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking

Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it. The Cyber Weapon Index, published on Wednesday, scored nine American […]

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CrowdStrike and the FBI are dismantling Sality after 23 years

Sality has been infecting computers since 2003, making it older than the iPhone, Facebook, and much of the security industry now working to dismantle it. US law enforcement and CrowdStrike began taking it apart this week, Reuters reported. For more than two decades, the operation has been used for fairly ordinary cybercrime. Infected machines have […]

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Dropbox says 5,000 accounts were breached through a Lenovo login

Somebody registered a Lenovo ID using a stranger’s email address and then used it to sign into that person’s Dropbox account without needing their password. About 5,000 accounts were compromised between August 4 and 21, Dropbox said. The flaw was in a legacy integration between Lenovo ID and Dropbox that did not properly verify email […]

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Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance

Microsoft is getting ready to roll out its memory integrity security feature of Windows 11 to more devices next month. The kernel-level protection feature is designed to stop malicious code or drivers running on a Windows 11 machine, but Microsoft previously warned it can also impact PC gaming performance. “Windows quality updates will begin enabling […]

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