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Moscow shuts down airports and mobile signals as Victory Day parade looms

Kremlin tightens security before Russia’s biggest national celebration on 9 May amid fears of Ukrainian drone strikes Russia shut down airports and temporarily cut mobile internet …

Feds Seize $725M+ in Crypto From China-Linked Fraud Network

Tired of winning yet? Well, here's another win for you; the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia's Scam Center Strike Force, on Tuesday, has announced another big fr…

‘Storage Wars’ star Darrell Sheets’ official manner of death revealed

Sheets' body was discovered on April 22 with an apparent gunshot wound to the head.…

ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower

ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows ServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a…

ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild

Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a th…

Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives

Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude's carefully crafted helpful personality may its…

Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking

Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after…

Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday

Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…

OpenAI may launch AI phone in 2027 - Cybernews

OpenAI may launch AI phone in 2027 Cybernews…

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defender…

How to Secure Your Home Wi-Fi: A Step-by-Step Guide

A few simple changes can keep snoopers, freeloaders and hackers off your home network.…

US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and data centers that rely on Linux.…

Fake traffic violation text scam uses QR codes to steal payment info

Scammers are sending fake court text messages with QR codes to U.S. drivers, demanding payment for traffic violations that never occurred across multiple states.…

WISeKey International Holding AG (WKEY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

WISeKey International Holding AG (WKEY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call May 4, 2026 9:00 AM EDTCompany ParticipantsCarlos Moreira - Founder, Chairman & CEOJohn...…

Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites

Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.…

Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets

Kloak - Kubernetes eBPF Secret Interceptor for HTTPS. Secure secret management without application changes or sidecars.…

Your ChatGPT account just got more secure, but you have to opt in - here's how

OpenAI adds a feature called Advanced Account Security with four opt-in settings designed to safeguard your account and personal data.…

Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M…

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

Virginia and Washington, D.C. paused the data collection and sharing, after Bloomberg's investigation found their health insurance marketplaces were sharing users' information with…

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect' When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a soft…

Treasury Secretary Bessent warns Americans about AI-driven bank account hacks as threats rapidly evolve

Treasury Secretary Bessent warns Americans about AI-driven bank account hacks as powerful new AI models expose vulnerabilities in financial systems.…

Mullin warns of challenges with DHS restart after thousands quit during shutdown

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned over the weekend that his agency faces sweeping staffing challenges as it seeks to rebound from a historic shutdown. The DHS’s 7…

Months of DOGE Panic, Zero Evidence: GAO Undercuts Data Breach Narrative

Congress's own watchdog just released a report with findings that deserve far more attention than they have received.…

Scammers are sneakily using a Google tool to target job hunters — here’s how to protect yourself

As if finding a job wasn't hard enough.…

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the fami…

Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

AI Companies Learn the Word No

Some of the people building AI have started acting like it might be dangerous.…

Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institut…

'RedSun' flaw in Microsoft's security software lets hackers take over your PC. Here's how to protect it.

Microsoft Windows is one of the most popular operating systems on the planet, second only to Android. With 1 billion users spread out across interests and industries, robust securi…

NymVPN's new 'Pay as You Go' option ditches accounts and subscriptions for true anonymity

NymVPN's new Pay as You Go service gives users decentralized network access without an account, a subscription, or any identity details.…

The legendary Oak Ridge lab just developed a portable device that detects GPS-spoofing live

GPS spoofing lets criminals steal trucks, hijack shipments, and divert dangerous cargo, all while everything looks normal. A new detector from Oak Ridge National Lab is the first t…

Amnezia VPN rolls out major bug fixes, a crucial security patch, and new features in latest app update

Amnezia VPN just rolled out its 4.8.15 update. Here is everything you need to know about the new features, bug fixes, and critical security patches keeping your devices safe.…

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have…

Norton VPN enters the AI agent space with 'first truly AI native' VPN for agents

Norton VPN has launched VPN for Agents, its AI-native VPN built for autonomous AI agents. Here's all you need to know.…

EU forging closer ties with Armenia as it sends experts to help counter Russian interference

Bloc’s leaders to hold first summit with Armenia on Tuesday at it ramps up efforts to combat Kremlin’s influence The EU is sending a team of experts specialised in combating Russia…

How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

Track which Chromium version each major desktop browser is currently shipping.…

United Arab Emirates plans AI-run government within two years

The UAE says it plans to deploy agentic AI across 50% of government operations in two years, making one of the most aggressive moves in the global AI race.…

Smart Rubber: Pirelli Invests in Its AI-Enabled Future

Pirelli is integrating AI and advanced compounds to revolutionize road connectivity and tire performance for the future.…

Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled

: KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start…

April Was the Worst Ever Month on Record for Crypto Hacks

Drift and Kelp DAO were the two most notable crypto hacks in April, combining for $579 million in losses.…

How to check if your Windows PC is ready for the secure boot certificate expiry in June 2026

Not every Windows PC will automatically get the new Secure Boot certificates before the June 2026 deadline. Here's how to check yours and fix it before it becomes a problem.…

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times : Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M…

Window’s Secure Boot certificates are expiring in June — here’s what you need to do

The Secure Boot certificates powering one of Windows' most critical security features expire in June 2026 — and not every PC is going to get the fix automatically.…

Amazon’s Middle East data centers damaged by Iran drone and missile attacks will be down for several months during repairs — U.S. and Iran currently observing an uneasy truce, but renewed strikes possible if talks break down

Amazon says that it will take months before it can return its Bahrain and UAE data center back to full operational status. In the meantime, the company suspends billing for affecte…

Data broker opt-out steps widows should take in 90 days

Grief makes widows prime targets for scammers who exploit obituaries and data broker profiles. Here is how to protect your personal information early on.…

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'It took 9 seconds': tech founder outlines how rogue Claude-powered AI tool wiped entire company database and backups

Cursor AI agent deleted a production database and backups in nine seconds, exposing serious flaws in API design and backup isolation…

North Korea calls US cyber threat claims a fabrication, warns of countermeasures - Reuters

North Korea calls US cyber threat claims a fabrication, warns of countermeasures Reuters…

GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests

New results suggest Mythos' cyber threat isn't "a breakthrough specific to one model."…

Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.…

Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from up…

Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.…

You Found Satoshi? Let’s See the Receipts

Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?…

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day

The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.…

Dangerous New Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access to Countless Computers

The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patched—but many machines r…

Surfshark Promo Codes: 87% Off | May 2026

Save up to 87% with a Surfshark coupon code, 3 months of VPN free today, and more from WIRED.…

What You Need to Know About the Foreign-Made Router Ban in the US

The FCC banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers and mobile hot spots manufactured outside the US. Here’s what it means for you.…

'That is why it is important to have full control': Dutch government launches its own self-hosted GitHub alternative in the latest blast against US tech giants such as Microsoft

The Netherlands has launched a self-hosted Git platform to gain control over code infrastructure, reduce reliance on external providers, and support collaboration.…

Cybercriminals Are Now Coming After Freight Cargo. And They’re Doing a Great Job.

Cybercriminals are now impersonating legitimate businesses to hijack freight, steal high-value shipments, and reroute deliveries, causing a surge of what is called 'strategic cargo…

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