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Of all the databases a wealth haven would least like to lose, this one is near the top. A cyberattack has reached the data of about 31,000 people in Liechtenste

Meta’s answer to the “pervert glasses” problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn anyone nearby. A sticker costing a couple of d

A coordinated intrusion knocked out industrial controllers at more than 30 Minnesota water systems. The US cyber-defence agency is telling utilities to get that

Apple wants to buy cheap memory chips from China to ease a shortage. That shortage is already pushing up the price of its gadgets. A bipartisan group of US sena

Wiz researchers found a single credential that could unlock every database running on Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB. They named it the Cosmos Master Key. And the

A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you se

Enterprise technology has become significantly more interconnected over the past decade. Cloud platforms, automation, artificial intelligence, and software inte

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way

China’s internet regulator has published draft rules to combat cyberbullying, and, according to Reuters, the measures are written to reach abuse generated with

The United States has moved to block new imports of foreign-made robots and power inverters. Officials fear a hostile power could spy through them, or switch th

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last year’s rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database

Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surpl

Yann Leriche, chief executive of Getlink, has a blunt diagnosis for why Europe’s new biometric border regime is still not running end to end at the Channel Tunn

Meta has hired Assaf Keren as its next chief information security officer, filling a vacancy created when Guy Rosen announced his departure in June after 13 yea

The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComp

Australia’s largest energy retailer has told the ASX that some customer information may have been accessed without authorisation, though it says card and bank d

The two companies announced a strategic collaboration to build the Fortinet Security Processor 6, the custom silicon inside its FortiGate firewalls. Intel will

Eight NATO allies have launched an initiative to connect their military satellites into a single networked mega-constellation, marking the Alliance’s most ambit

AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at

If you run a WordPress site, the advice this week is blunt: update it now. Two flaws in the software are under active exploitation across the internet. WordPres

Starting next month, OneDrive and SharePoint will block screen captures when enterprise users open certain sensitivity-labelled PDFs in Microsoft Edge. The rest

Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom

Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a

Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, deployed, and secured. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expande