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Article: Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage - published 5 months ago. Content: Updated Claude has gone offline on the day after its maker Anthropic filed for what is expected to be a blockbuster IPO. The popular chatbot and coding tool suffered an outage from around 0600 UTC on Tuesday, with Anthropic saying the team was investigating the issue. By 1042 UTC, the status page said a fix had been implemented and the technical team was mo... https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/claude-celebrates-anthropics-stock-market-float-with-blockbuster-outage/5250071 Published: 2026 06 02 11:54:08 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:18 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher - published 5 months ago. Content: Microsoft has moved to calm an increasingly noisy backlash from the security community after appearing to threaten legal action against a researcher who spent the past several weeks dumping Windows zero-days onto the internet. In a statement published on Monday, Redmond said it has "no intention to pursue action against individuals conducting or publishing ... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/02/microsoft-reaches-for-olive-branch-after-public-dustup-with-0-day-researcher/5249945 Published: 2026 06 02 12:37:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:17 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices - published 5 months ago. Content: Russia's domestic spy agency says it has uncovered a sprawling foreign espionage operation that allegedly turned the smartphones of senior Russian officials into pocket-sized surveillance devices, though it has so far offered little in the way of evidence. In a statement Tuesday, the Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed foreign intelligence agencies impla... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/02/russian-spy-agency-says-foreign-spies-turned-officials-smartphones-into-surveillance-devices/5250099 Published: 2026 06 02 14:45:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:17 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered - published 5 months ago. Content: Bug hunting has become a whole lot more exciting in recent months with both Anthropic and OpenAI touting their latest models (that also happen to be super-scary exploit machines). On Tuesday, as Anthropic announced a fourfold expansion to its Mythos preview program, Cisco jumped into the fray, praising the transformative power of AI - but without disclosing... https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/cisco-praises-ai-bug-hunt-wont-reveal-flaw-tally/5250291 Published: 2026 06 02 18:35:24 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:17 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: 'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club' - published 5 months ago. Content: Even ransomware cartels make mistakes, and in this case, it was a biggie that could have landed the responsible crim in a Russian gulag: accidentally infecting a company located in a Commonwealth of Independent States country. In what threat-hunter Dominic Alvieri deemed the ransom “dumbass of the day,” Nova, the affiliate program for ransomware crew RAlord... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/02/dumbass-criminal-breaks-the-first-rule-of-ransomware-club/5250380 Published: 2026 06 02 21:58:34 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:16 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion - published 5 months ago. Content: Updated: UK banks are set to receive access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber after being excluded from Anthropic’s latest expansion of Project Glasswing. Project Glasswing, and access to the Mythos Preview model, is geared toward ensuring critical infrastructure providers are prepared to handle the threat posed by advanced AI models, once they inevitably make thei... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/03/anthropic-ups-glasswing-partner-count-4x-uk-banks-snubbed/5250450 Published: 2026 06 03 11:04:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:16 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures - published 5 months ago. Content: UPDATED Yet another aggrieved bug hunter has leaked a vulnerability affecting a Microsoft product after becoming disillusioned with the way the company handles security reports. Ammar Askar dropped a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) flaw within just an hour of disclosing it to “an old contact” at the open source platform, ac... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/03/another-bug-hunter-leaks-microsoft-exploits-in-defiance-of-companys-handling-of-vulnerability-disclosures/5250590 Published: 2026 06 03 14:30:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:16 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech - published 5 months ago. Content: Wireless jamming attacks are on the rise. Rice University researchers have shown how self-curving radio beams can make a jammer appear to be somewhere it isn't, potentially undermining some anti-jamming defenses. Jamming relies on flooding a wireless receiver with noise that denies service. Some modern receivers identify and block jamming attempts using dir... https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/03/curving-beams-could-fool-anti-jamming-tech/5250872 Published: 2026 06 03 20:57:39 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:15 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state - published 5 months ago. Content: AI-enabled cybercriminals have better tools and are inflicting more pain on their victims, wiping out virtual machines and hypervisors and leaving infrastructure in a "dark, dead" state after an attack, said Commvault Chief Technology Officer Brian Brockway. "The majority of cyber cases that we've seen in the customer base have moved well beyond the breakin... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/03/commvault-says-its-time-to-rethink-resiliency-as-ai-crooks-leave-victims-in-a-dark-dead-state/5250894 Published: 2026 06 03 22:31:29 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:14 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields - published 5 months ago. Content: PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we talk about weak security policies and how to avoid them. Hopefully, we can learn from others’ mistakes – or at least have a good laugh at them. Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com. Anonymity is available upon request. This week, we hav... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/04/all-the-passwords-were-stored-in-active-directory-description-fields/5250820 Published: 2026 06 04 05:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:14 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine - published 5 months ago. Content: There's a lot of fear surrounding the bug-finding capabilities of super-advanced AI models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT 5.5-Cyber. But attackers are already using free, publicly available LLMs to hijack networks and worm through software supply chains at a much lower cost – to them at least. The latest example comes from University of Toronto re... https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/06/04/free-ai-model-powers-self-spreading-worm-in-enterprise-test-network/5250918 Published: 2026 06 04 07:09:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:13 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k - published 5 months ago. Content: Two former RAC workers in the UK have three months to pay more than £118,000 ($158,500) collectively after being convicted of selling crash victims’ data, according to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Debbie Okparavero and Maliha Islam, of Salford and Manchester respectively, were sentenced to six-month prison stints, suspended for 18 months, an... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/04/duo-who-sold-car-crash-victims-data-must-repay-118k/5251075 Published: 2026 06 04 11:13:05 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:12 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets - published 5 months ago. Content: MI5 and its international allies are once again warning that China is shopping for state secret leakers on popular recruitment platforms, including LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork. In a fresh advisory published on Wednesday evening, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence agency said China is using an increasing number of platforms to recruit those who have acc... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/04/five-eyes-china-expanding-state-secret-recruitment-campaign/5250978 Published: 2026 06 04 11:57:22 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:11 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds - published 5 months ago. Content: The next threat your server faces may have been helped along by a bot. OpenAI's Codex agent helped uncover a remote denial-of-service (DoS) exploit that can be launched from a single machine to render vulnerable web servers inaccessible in seconds, according to Calif security researchers. The attack works on default HTTP/2 configurations of major web server... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/04/openais-codex-chains-decade-old-dos-techniques-into-http/2-bomb/5251377 Published: 2026 06 04 19:08:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:11 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds - published 5 months ago. Content: UPDATED A new extortion brand called Pink – which may be a rebrand of BlackFile – uses voice phishing and fake help-desk calls to gain initial access to organizations’ IT environments, steal their sensitive data, and threaten to leak it unless the victims pay a ransom demand. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 first spotted the gang, which it tracks as cluster CL-... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/04/pink-is-the-latest-goon-squad-to-use-fake-helpdesk-calls-to-steal-creds/5251434 Published: 2026 06 04 22:16:55 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:11 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder - published 5 months ago. Content: A City of York Council email mishap exposed the email addresses of hundreds of Blue Badge holders in the ancient Viking capital, inadvertently revealing their status as disabled residents and triggering a data breach investigation. The council confirmed to The Register that it’s investigating what it described as a "personal data breach" after emails sent t... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/council-in-uks-city-of-york-outs-hundreds-of-disabled-residents-with-a-single-email-blunder/5251214 Published: 2026 06 05 10:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:10 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families - published 5 months ago. Content: Humanitarian organization World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its systems was breached, and around 600,000 Gazan households receiving aid had their details improperly accessed. Its announcement, made via Telegram on May 31, confirmed there was “a security incident” in the self-registration application used by Gazans to register for aid and applicants’ na... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families/5251605 Published: 2026 06 05 13:00:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:10 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight - published 5 months ago. Content: The threat is real. Unknown miscreants are exploiting a high-severity, zero-day bug in Cisco’s SD-WAN management software, and the networking giant hasn’t said when it will patch the flaw. Cisco issued an advisory on Thursday for the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, and it sounds like attackers have been exploiting this secu... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/yet-another-cisco-sd-wan-0-day-under-attack-and-no-patch-in-sight/5251855 Published: 2026 06 05 17:27:42 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:09 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks - published 5 months ago. Content: If they don't get you online, they'll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident r... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/05/if-you-dont-fall-for-these-extortionists-calls-theyll-show-up-with-usb-sticks/5251891 Published: 2026 06 05 21:18:42 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:08 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach - published 5 months ago. Content: Oxford University students seeking work will be dismayed to learn that crooks have breached a second external platform provider for the university in as many months. The institution’s CareerConnect platform, provided by Group GTI, was the target of the intrusion, which exposed users’ full names and email addresses. Those who don’t use single sign-on (SSO) h... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/06/oxford-university-data-pwned-again-by-career-platform-breach/5251754 Published: 2026 06 06 07:28:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:08 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting - published 5 months ago. Content: Meta has asked a federal judge to hold Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in contempt of court after claiming it caught the surveillance vendor targeting WhatsApp users again despite a permanent injunction ordering it to stop. In a blog post on Monday, Meta said it had disrupted "NSO-linked social engineering attempts" after investigating reports from users. A... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/nso-group-back-in-metas-crosshairs-after-alleged-whatsapp-targeting/5252105 Published: 2026 06 08 12:10:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:07 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections - published 5 months ago. Content: Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm in the latest open source supply chain attack. The code shack took down 73 repos within the space of 105 seconds after its alarms were tripped on Friday, June 5, after detecting signs of the Miasma worm infecting its projects, according to StepSecurity’s co... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/github-nukes-70-microsoft-repos-amid-suspected-worm-attack/5252169 Published: 2026 06 08 13:56:50 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:06 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation - published 5 months ago. Content: An Illinois high school won't reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after suffering a ransomware attack on Sunday, June 7. Evanston Township High School (ETHS), located 14 miles north of Chicago, said it would be closed today and tomorrow, and that the closure also affected summer school, sports camps, and on-campus activities, which are all canceled. "Upo... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/08/ransomware-attack-shuts-illinois-high-school-until-wednesday/5252322 Published: 2026 06 08 15:46:52 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:06 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix - published 5 months ago. Content: Check Point released an emergency fix on Monday for a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments - but attackers, including ransomware criminals, got a month-long head start. Attacks against the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-50751, began on May 7, according to Check Point VP of research Lotem Finkel... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/08/attackers-had-month-long-head-start-on-patched-check-point-vpn-zero-day/5252438 Published: 2026 06 08 17:10:31 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:05 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto - published 5 months ago. Content: There's another likely North Korean-linked scam hitting developers and their employers, while snarfing up credentials and cryptocurrency - and this one doesn't even involve embedding IT workers at high-profile tech giants. A previously unseen phishing crew, suspected to have DPRK ties, sent more than 250 emails to people working in almost 100 organizations,... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/08/suspected-norks-send-250-fake-dev-job-pitches-to-steal-crypto/5252526 Published: 2026 06 08 22:13:20 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:05 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records - published 5 months ago. Content: The patient tally from the Synnovis ransomware attack continues to grow two years later, with Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust confirming it was caught up in the breach. The trust told The Register that the Synnovis breach affected about 2,380 records relating to patients who underwent specialist diagnostic testing. The disclosure follows a similar ... https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/06/09/qilin-nhs-breach-tally-grows-as-essex-trust-confirms-stolen-records/5252663 Published: 2026 06 09 09:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:04 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack - published 5 months ago. Content: French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light on June 7 when France's National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) detected suspicious activity on Tchap, the government's homegrown messaging service used acr... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/france-probes-compromise-of-gov-messaging-platform-after-account-hijack/5252717 Published: 2026 06 09 11:27:55 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:04 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year - published 5 months ago. Content: Google has fixed its fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, and this one earned its finder a $55,000 bounty. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, is an out-of-bounds memory access bug in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Google confirmed that the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, but has disclosed little beyond the bare technical details... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/chromes-zero-day-whac-a-mole-continues-with-fifth-exploited-bug-of-the-year/5252689 Published: 2026 06 09 12:15:00 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:03 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all' - published 5 months ago. Content: Signal insists that plans to compel tech companies to scan devices for nude images of children announced by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday at London Tech Week "will not keep children safe." "It endangers us all," the encrypted messaging platform said, adding that the mechanism required to implement it would be "dangerous." And it wouldn't be a pro... https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/09/signal-uks-child-nude-block-threat-wont-protect-children/5252761 Published: 2026 06 09 12:41:03 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:03 Feed: The Register - Security Source: The Register - Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: CISA Flags 2-Year-Old Oracle WebLogic Vulnerability as Actively Exploited - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisa-oracle-weblogic-vulnerability-exploited/ Published: 2026 06 03 15:56:41 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:01 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Microsoft Tests Wearable AI Badge for Office Workers - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-wearable-ai-badge-office-workers/ Published: 2026 06 03 20:02:38 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:01 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Apple’s 2026 Security Events: iPhone Exploits, Zero-Days Put Millions at Risk - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apple-security-roundup-june-2026/ Published: 2026 06 03 20:09:45 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:01 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Malicious WhatsApp, Slack Alerts Could Have Exposed Millions of Android Users - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-whatsapp-slack-alerts-could-manipulate-gemini-android/ Published: 2026 06 04 14:15:40 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:00 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: US Firms Try DeepSeek as Silicon Valley AI Costs Rise - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-us-firms-try-deepseek-ai-costs-rise/ Published: 2026 06 04 15:37:23 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:00 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Microsoft 365 Android Apps Had a Token Flaw IT Teams Should Check Now - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-365-android-token-flaw/ Published: 2026 06 04 15:44:50 Received: 2026 06 09 15:27:00 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Gartner SRM 2026 Signals a Cybersecurity Shift From Prevention to Resilience - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-gartner-srm-2026-resilience-ai-security/ Published: 2026 06 04 17:51:34 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:59 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: New GitHub Zero-Day Exposed Developer Tokens to Attackers - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-github-dev-vscode-webview-oauth-token-vulnerability/ Published: 2026 06 04 19:51:14 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:59 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Apple Begins Rosetta’s Final Phase as Intel Mac Era Winds Down - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apple-macos-27-drops-intel-mac-support-rosetta/ Published: 2026 06 04 20:04:17 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:58 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Southeast Asia Scam Compounds Turn AI Into a Cybersecurity Threat - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-scam-compounds-risk-apac-southeast-asia/ Published: 2026 06 05 12:31:01 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:58 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: DentaQuest Cyberattack Tied to 2.6M Exposed Accounts - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-dentaquest-breach-health-data-2-6m-accounts/ Published: 2026 06 05 14:41:13 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:58 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: New CISA Warning: Hackers Are Targeting Fuel Tank Monitoring Systems - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisa-atg-systems-fuel-storage-cyberattacks/ Published: 2026 06 05 15:12:04 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:57 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Chinese Spies Using LinkedIn, Job Sites to Recruit Western Workers - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-five-eyes-fake-recruiters-chinese-intelligence/ Published: 2026 06 05 17:29:29 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:57 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Malicious Hugging Face Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-hugging-face-transformers-rce-flaw/ Published: 2026 06 05 18:00:38 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:56 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Cisco Warns Agentic AI Will Put New Pressure on Enterprise Networks - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-cisco-ai-networking-bottleneck/ Published: 2026 06 05 20:07:12 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:56 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: AI Upgrades, Security Flaws, and SpaceX’s Record IPO Define the Week in Tech - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-upgrades-security-flaws-and-spacexs-record-ipo-define-the-week-in-tech/ Published: 2026 06 05 20:48:52 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:55 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: ExpressVPN Is on Sale for $40: A Great Deal for Remote Teams - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/expressvpn-basic-1-year-subscription/ Published: 2026 06 08 09:13:52 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:55 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Anthropic’s Mythos AI Reportedly Enters NSA Offensive Cyber Planning - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-anthropic-nsa-mythos-ai-cyber-operations/ Published: 2026 06 08 13:17:04 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:54 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Lockdown Mode to Millions of Eligible Users - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-expands-chatgpt-lockdown-mode-millions-users/ Published: 2026 06 08 15:21:16 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:54 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Meta: NSO Tried Targeting WhatsApp Users Despite Court Order - published 5 months ago. Content: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-whatsapp-nso-targeted-users-after-court-ban/ Published: 2026 06 08 17:30:12 Received: 2026 06 09 15:26:53 Feed: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Source: IT Security Blog | TechRepublic Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid - published 5 months ago. Content: Someone named “Squid” seems to be a “West Country legend.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/friday-squid-blogging-another-squid.html Published: 2026 05 29 21:05:33 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:42 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI - published 5 months ago. Content: New article: “Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action,” by Melissa Hathaway. Abstract: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the balance between vulnerability discovery and remediation. Frontier AI models are now capable of autonomously identifying exploitable software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale. T... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/vulnerability-disclosure-in-the-age-of-ai.html Published: 2026 06 01 16:49:39 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:42 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Microsoft Threatening Security Researcher - published 5 months ago. Content: An anonymous security researcher called “Nightmare Eclipse” has been publishing a series of significant security exploits against Microsoft Windows—including one that breaks BitLocker. Microsoft has threatened legal action against the researcher. Lots of recriminations are being traded back and forth. ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/microsoft-threatening-security-researcher.html Published: 2026 06 02 11:00:42 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:42 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: The Intersection of Encryption and AI - published 5 months ago. Content: As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select their favorite piece and share their reflections on the topic today. This is my section. Renowned technologist and author Bruce Schneier contributed a column on June 20, 2010, warning about cryptog... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/the-intersection-of-encryption-and-ai.html Published: 2026 06 02 11:06:25 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:41 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers - published 5 months ago. Content: Researchers are using machine learning algorithms to decrypt historical pencil-and-paper ciphers. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-used-to-decrypt-medieval-ciphers.html Published: 2026 06 03 11:04:40 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:41 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Hacking Meta’s AI Chatbot - published 5 months ago. Content: Hackers are convincing Meta’s AI support chatbot to let them take over other peoples’ accounts: A video posted on X showed the step-by-step process to hack someone’s Instagram account. The hacker allegedly used a VPN to spoof the targets’ presumed location to avoid triggering Instagram’s automated account protections. Then, the hacker opened a chat with Meta... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/hacking-metas-ai-chatbot.html Published: 2026 06 04 11:04:09 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:41 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: AI Worm - published 5 months ago. Content: Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm. The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into. This is the closest to John Brunner’s original 1975 conception of a computer worm that I’ve seen. ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-worm.html Published: 2026 06 05 13:21:23 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:41 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update - published 5 months ago. Content: In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software. It was a fantastic PR move, and so many press outlets have uncritically parroted Anthropic’s claims that it’s now common wisdom that Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than other models. Wh... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/anthropics-project-glasswing-update.html Published: 2026 06 08 11:01:47 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:40 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed - published 5 months ago. Content: If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important: On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing. The Orchard pool is the newest and most ad... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/critical-zcash-vulnerability-found-and-fixed.html Published: 2026 06 08 17:06:53 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:40 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: GPS As a Key Distribution Platform - published 5 months ago. Content: This is interesting: The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station,” according to Steven Murdoch… That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the ... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/gps-as-a-key-distribution-platform.html Published: 2026 06 09 15:06:49 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:40 Feed: Schneier on Security Source: Schneier on Security Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: The Word 'Toad' Gave Any Website Full Control of Chrome's Most Popular VPN - published 6 months ago. Content: submitted by /u/acorn222 [link] [comments] https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1tqdrly/the_word_toad_gave_any_website_full_control_of/ Published: 2026 05 28 19:30:22 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:39 Feed: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Source: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs - published 5 months ago. Content: submitted by /u/feross [link] [comments]... https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1tqqaoy/fooling_around_with_encrypted_reasoning_blobs/ Published: 2026 05 29 04:00:25 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:39 Feed: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Source: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: I evaluated 5 LLM agents on patching real-world CVEs. Here is what I found. - published 5 months ago. Content: I built an independent benchmark with 20 real CVEs across 15 CWE categories, 5 models (3 OpenAI, 2 Poolside Laguna), three prompt conditions: full advisory, behavioral description only, and location only (file and function, no description of the flaw). I have three findings worth sharing: No model reliably fixes real vulnerabilities. The best solve rate (gp... https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1tquesx/i_evaluated_5_llm_agents_on_patching_realworld/ Published: 2026 05 29 07:32:36 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:38 Feed: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Source: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: 1,001 IPs, 64 countries, one operation: mapping a botnet by its back end · HoneyLabs blog - published 5 months ago. Content: We found a cluster of 1,001 IPs across 306 networks and 64 countries, tied to eight shared staging servers and a single TLS and HTTP fingerprint that appears nowhere else, plus smaller botnets that fall into clean separate islands. submitted by /u/Honeylabs [link] [comments]... https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1tqvtjl/1001_ips_64_countries_one_operation_mapping_a/ Published: 2026 05 29 08:52:11 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:38 Feed: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Source: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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Article: OffensiveCon26 YouTube Playlist released - published 5 months ago. Content: submitted by /u/maurosoria [link] [comments] https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1trbc7u/offensivecon26_youtube_playlist_released/ Published: 2026 05 29 18:38:42 Received: 2026 06 09 15:25:38 Feed: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Source: /r/netsec - Information Security News and Discussion Category: Cyber Security Topic: Cyber Security |
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