Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting: law enforcement takedowns of major RaaS (ransomware-as-a-service) operations have scattered affiliates and prompted rebrands, producing…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary The City of Baltimore made more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer spoofed a vendor and…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary Senior officials have been summoned to the UK Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP reported that Personal Systems revenue rose 6% year-on-year to $9.9bn in its fiscal third…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Summary Australian vendor Click Studios has issued Passwordstate build 9972 to fix two security issues: a clickjacking mitigation for its browser…
RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house Summary RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian 12 (Bookworm) based distribution that uses KDE Plasma 5.27.5 as its…
Summary FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has written to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging that Gmail’s spam filters are disproportionately diverting Republican fundraising and campaign emails into users’ spam folders. Ferguson…
Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs Summary The US government converted about $5.7bn in outstanding CHIPS Act grant money into roughly a 10%…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure services used by US government…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in public preview for…
