Disney agrees to $10 million settlement for collecting data from children Summary The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations it…
Nick Andersen appointed to CISA leadership role Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that Nicholas (Nick) Andersen has begun serving as the agency’s Executive Assistant Director for…
Summary Amazon’s threat intelligence team disrupted a watering hole campaign in August attributed to Russia’s APT29 (also known as BlueBravo or Cozy Bear). The attackers compromised legitimate websites by injecting…
Cloudflare, Zscaler among companies impacted by Salesloft Drift incident Summary A widespread data-theft campaign exploiting the Salesloft Drift integration has exposed customer data from hundreds of organisations. Incident responders (including…
Corruption case against ousted cyber chief is ‘revenge,’ Ukraine’s security service says Summary The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accuses the National Anti‑Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti‑Corruption Prosecutor’s…
WhatsApp warns of ‘attack against specific targeted users’ Summary Meta has disclosed CVE-2025-55177 in WhatsApp: an “incomplete authorisation” bug in linked-device synchronisation that could let an unrelated user trigger processing…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Content summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar (under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship) mapped…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A reader (anonymised as “Derek”) recounts how working as a part-time DBA for a company…
Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has distinguished two classes of Solar Energetic Electron (SEE) events by tracing the origin of superfast electrons close to the Sun. One class…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Oracle co‑founder Larry Ellison is funding a £118 million project with the University of Oxford to apply artificial intelligence…
