DOGE Is Officially Dead

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - The project no longer exists, despite eight months left on its mandate.

Back to Top / Monday, November 24, 2025, 11:20 am / permalink 16258 / 10 stories in 3 months

Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption

Jessica Lyons / theregister - Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit …

Back to Top / Monday, November 24, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 16253 / 2 stories in 3 months

Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos

Connor Jones / theregister - Trojanized npm packages spread new variant that executes in pre-install phase, hitting thousands within days A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round, according to Wiz researchers who say that more than 2…

Back to Top / Monday, November 24, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 16247 / 3 stories in 3 months

Social Links raises €2.6 million to enhance AI tools that detect fraud, scam messages and brand misinformation

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Amstelveen-based Social Links, a global technology company, has secured €2.6 million ($3 million) in additional follow-on funding to accelerate the development of next-generation defense tools designed to secure companies’ brand, assets, and people in the…

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Read Epsteins emails as if you hacked into his Gmail account

mashable - Jmail is the best way to read and search through Jeffrey Epstein's emails.

Back to Top / Friday, November 21, 2025, 8:20 pm / permalink 16192 / 4 stories in 3 months

Cryptographers Cancel Election Results After Losing Decryption Key

BeauHD / slashdot - The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) was forced to cancel its leadership election after a trustee lost their portion of the Helios voting system's decryption key, making it impossible to reveal or verify the final results. Ars Tech…

Back to Top / Friday, November 21, 2025, 8:20 pm / permalink 16190 / 4 stories in 3 months

Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China

Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Four arrested and charged with illegal exports, smuggling, and money laundering.

Back to Top / Friday, November 21, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 16185 / 5 stories in 3 months

Google Says Hackers Stole Data From Over 200 Companies Following Gainsight Breach

msmash / slashdot - Google confirmed in a statement Friday that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack. TechCrunch reports: On Thursday, Salesforce disclosed a breach of "certain customers' Salesforce data…

Back to Top / Friday, November 21, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 16182 / 6 stories in 3 months

Cloudflare outage exposes reliance on a handful of Internet companies

Jason Fuller / npr - NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Betsy Cooper, a cybersecurity expert at the Aspen Institute, about this week's major Internet outage and the world's reliance on a handful of web services companies.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 16130 / 4 stories in 3 months

Windows 11’s latest update transforms the taskbar into a home for AI agents

digitaltrends - Microsoft is introducing full-blown AI agents into the Windows 11 taskbar, letting them run tasks, monitor themselves, and interact with files — the taskbar is becoming more than a launcher.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 3:20 pm / permalink 16121 / 5 stories in 3 months

Microsoft Mitigated the Largest Cloud DDoS Ever Recorded, 15.7 Tbps

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Security Affairs: On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and mitigated a massive multi-vector attack peaking at 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 billion pps, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, aimed at a single …

Back to Top / Monday, November 17, 2025, 6:21 pm / permalink 16052 / 4 stories in 3 months

Organizations overconfident in dealing with cybersecurity incidents

Ian Barker / betanews - New research from Immersive Labs reveals a widening gap between confidence and capability in cybersecurity. While nearly every organization (94 percent) believes it can handle a major incident, the data tells a different story. According to Immersive’s an…

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X Rolls Out Encrypted ‘Chat’ to Replace DMs, But Admits Critical Security Flaws

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - X is replacing DMs with 'Chat,' adding video calls and end-to-end encryption. But the platform admits it has major security holes, leaving users vulnerable.The post X Rolls Out Encrypted ‘Chat’ to Replace DMs, But Admits Critical Security Flaws appeared f…

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Five plead guilty to helping North Koreans pretend to be US-based IT workers

engadget - The US Department of Justice has announced that five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Koreans defraud US companies by pretending to be US-based remote workers. North Korea has previously used fake identities and the direct manipulation of US cy…

Back to Top / Friday, November 14, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 15970 / 4 stories in 3 months

Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China

go - Researchers at an artificial intelligence firm say they've found the first reported case of foreign hackers using AI to automate portions of cyberattacks

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Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionage Campaign

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic reports that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI to autonomously execute a large-scale cyber espionage campaign, marking a new era of AI-driven threats.The post Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionag…

Back to Top / Thursday, November 13, 2025, 2:21 pm / permalink 15942 / 9 stories in 3 months