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

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

Cloudflare outage disrupts X, OpenAI and more

Colin Ryan / siliconrepublic - The ongoing outage is the third major disruption to hit a popular internet service provider since mid-October, after Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.Read more: Cloudflare outage disrupts X, OpenAI and more

Back to Top / Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 8:20 am / permalink 16068 / 12 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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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

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

Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones

Jessica Lyons / theregister - 'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tr…

Back to Top / Friday, November 7, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15773 / 4 stories in 3 months

Google gets the US government’s green light to acquire Wiz for $32B

Rebecca Szkutak / techcrunch - Google announced its intent to acquire cloud security company Wiz in March and the deal is now on track to close in early 2026.

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15690 / 5 stories in 4 months

Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for productivity but are now deploying AI-enabled malware directly in …

Back to Top / Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 15683 / 6 stories in 4 months

Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware and Evade Endpoint Detection

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Russian-linked hackers, Curly COMrades, are abusing Microsoft Hyper-V to deploy malware in hidden Linux VMs, bypassing EDR to conduct stealthy espionage.The post Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware and Evade Endpoint Detection appeared first on …

Back to Top / Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 2:21 pm / permalink 15656 / 3 stories in 4 months

Windows 10 update incorrectly tells some users they've reached end-of-life, despite having extended support — Microsoft confirms message sent to Enterprise, Pro, and Education users in error

tomshardware - Users over the weekend reported seeing incorrect end-of-life messages on Windows 10 despite either being enrolled in the ESU program or running Enterprise/LTSC versions of the OS that are automatically set to receive security updates for a few more years.…

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‘We got hacked’ emails threaten to leak University of Pennsylvania data

Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - The University of Pennsylvania suffered a cybersecurity incident on Friday, where students and alumni received a series of offensive emails from various University email addresses, claiming that data was stolen in a breach. [...]

Back to Top / Friday, October 31, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 15574 / 5 stories in 4 months

WhatsApp will let you use passkeys for your backups

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - WhatsApp is rolling out passkeys for backups, which is great news for anyone who has been on the platform for years. This will add another layer of security to anything that's been backed up, including chats, photos, voice notes and more.It's also conveni…

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15541 / 9 stories in 4 months

Microsoft Azure Meltdown Exposes Critical Cloud Risk

Datamation Staff / datamation - The outage disrupted major products from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems used by airlines, banks, and retailers.

Back to Top / Thursday, October 30, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 15539 / 4 stories in 4 months