CISA steps in to help Nevada state government recover from cyberattack Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has deployed teams to assist Nevada’s state government after a cyberattack…
Microsoft warns of ransomware gang shifting to steal cloud data, lock companies out of systems Summary Microsoft has warned that a long-running threat actor it calls Storm-0501 is moving from…
China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’ Summary China’s State Council has unveiled a new “AI+” policy as the successor to 2015’s “Internet+”. Where Internet+ emphasised connectivity…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar (conducted under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship) maps…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader, “Derek”, worked as a part-time DBA for a firm running two MySQL instances…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced streams of superfast electrons back to their origins on the…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Researchers at security firm Pangea describe a novel prompt-injection technique they call “LegalPwn”: hiding adversarial instructions inside legal-style documents…
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a growing but overlooked cybercrime. Netscout’s…
Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships Summary Norway has agreed to buy at least five British-built Type 26 (City-class) frigates from BAE Systems in Glasgow, a…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been repeatedly issuing Content ID…
