US cyber agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
CISA said it “missed” an opportunity to get ahead of the security incident by not creating a response plan ahead of time.
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Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group to extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.
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UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face
Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A facial recognition system in more than 100 UK shops is about to start calling the police in real time. It will fire the moment it spots a flagged shopper. […]
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Palo Alto’s CEO says AI prices must fall 90% before the tech really takes off
Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says the cost of running AI needs to plunge before businesses can deploy it at scale. He told CNBC on Thursday that token prices may need to fall by as much as 90%, according to CNBC. Arora was reacting to OpenAI’s claim that its new GPT-5.6 model is 54% […]
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Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger
Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues earlier,” which means “customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release.” Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI […]
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A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway.
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “chat control” bill to find child abuse material online.
Suspected Chinese spies are raiding university mailboxes via a Roundcube flaw
A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national security research. Security firm Proofpoint disclosed the campaign this week, tracking the crew as UNK_MassTraction and dating it to at least May. The Register reported further […]
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Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow
Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. They call it a workflow-level jailbreak, and The Register reported the finding. The gap between the two settings is stark. In direct chat, the […]
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One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon
Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped repository can walk an agent past its own safety prompt. The payoff is a planted key that hands an attacker the developer’s machine. An ancient bug just tripped up the newest tools. Researchers […]
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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers
The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver’s license numbers so far in 2026.
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