It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug
Joseph Cox / 404media - The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.
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Bouygues Telecom confirms data breach impacting 6.4 million customers
Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Bouygues Telecom warns it suffered a data breach after the personal information of 6.4 million customers was exposed in a cyberattack. [...]
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Air France and KLM disclose data breaches impacting customers
Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Air France and KLM announced on Wednesday that attackers had breached a customer service platform and stolen the data of an undisclosed number of customers. [...]
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Microsoft warns of serious vulnerability in hybrid Exchange deployments
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Microsoft has issued a warning about a high-severity vulnerability in hybrid Microsoft Exchange Server deployments. Tracked as CVE-2025-53786, the vulnerability could allow for privilege escalation by cyber threat actors with administrative access to an o…
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An invisible prompt in a Google Doc made ChatGPT access data from a victim’s Google Drive
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - A single manipulated document was enough to get ChatGPT to automatically extract sensitive data—without any user interaction.The article An invisible prompt in a Google Doc made ChatGPT access data from a victim’s Google Drive appeared first on THE DECODE…
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OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
Tom Warren / theverge - GitHub has accidentally announced OpenAI’s new range of GPT-5 models. A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals that GPT-5, which will be available in four different versions, offers “major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience.” Reddi…
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There's a Tea app for men, and it also has security problems
Anna Washenko / engadget - Tea bills itself as a safety dating app for women, allowing users to anonymously share details about men they have met. A new app called TeaOnHer has emerged that attempts to flip the script, with men sharing information about women they date. And while T…
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Hackers Used An Infected Calendar Invite To Hack Gemini And Take Control Of A Smart Home
bgr - The dangers of AI are becoming increasingly apparent, as hackers found a way to use Google's Gemini chatbot to take over a stranger's smart home devices.
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Microsoft unveils Project Ire, an AI system that automatically detects malware
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Microsoft has unveiled Project Ire, an AI system designed to automatically analyze software files and determine whether they contain malware.The article Microsoft unveils Project Ire, an AI system that automatically detects malware appeared first on THE D…
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Microsoft’s ‘Agentic Web’ Ambition Hit by Embarrassing Security Flaw
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - A critical security flaw in Microsoft's new NLWeb protocol raises questions about its 'agentic web' strategy, despite a quick patch from the company.The post Microsoft’s ‘Agentic Web’ Ambition Hit by Embarrassing Security Flaw appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Cohere’s new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep enterprise data secure
Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Canadian AI firm Cohere is taking aim at alleviating data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and customers', data safe behind their own firewalls.
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UK MoD taps Australian cybersecurity startup Castlepoint after Afghan data breach
Lucy Adams / tech - Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Australian firm Castlepoint Systems to provide services for automating data classification and reducing the risk of human error. The company is now hea...
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WhatsApp launches new tools to stop scammers
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - WhatsApp is now an essential communication tool for both personal and business use, and its popularity means that it is also a prime target for scammers. As such, the company has just announced the rollout of a new series of tools designed to help keep us…
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Dell fixed security chip vulnerability that left millions open to attack
Brad Bennett / mobilesyrup - Tens of millions of Dell laptops were recently discovered to have a vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to steal sensitive data from users and monitor some of their computer activities. Dell validated this security analysis in June, and it appea…
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WhatsApp Bans 6.8 Million Scam Accounts in Global Crackdown
John Quintet / iphoneincanada - WhatsApp says it blocked more than 6.8 million accounts linked to global scam operations in the first half of this year, part of a growing crackdown on criminal networks that often rely on forced labour and organized crime in Southeast Asia. ers. Tech sca…
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NVIDIA Patches Critical Triton Server Vulnerabilities Enabling Full AI System Takeover
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - NVIDIA has patched critical RCE flaws in its Triton Inference Server after Wiz Research found an exploit chain allowing full AI system takeover. Update now.The post NVIDIA Patches Critical Triton Server Vulnerabilities Enabling Full AI System Takeover app…
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Hacker used a voice phishing attack to steal Cisco customers’ personal information
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users.
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SonicWall urges customers to disable SSLVPN amid reports of ransomware attacks
Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - Security researchers say they have evidence that ransomware gangs are hacking into large companies that rely on fully-patched SonicWall firewalls. The researchers say it's likely the flaw is a "zero-day" bug currently unknown to SonicWall.
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Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake?
Azdhan / medianama - Cloudflare blocks Perplexity AI bots for violating anti-scraping rules and masking crawler identity.The post Cloudflare Blocks Perplexity for Skirting Web Scraping Rules: What’s at Stake? appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
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World's largest chipmaker TSMC says it has discovered potential trade secret leaks
cnbc - TSMC dominates the market for the manufacturing of the most advanced chips on the planet and counts major firms like Apple and Nvidia as clients.
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