Critical Railway Braking Systems Open to Tampering Summary Researchers demonstrated that legacy train protection systems can be spoofed or tampered with using very simple, low-cost hardware and publicly available information.…
Cloudflare Blames Outage on Internal Configuration Error Summary Cloudflare experienced a major outage beginning 11:20 UTC that left sites such as X, Uber, Canva and ChatGPT returning internal server errors…
South Africa is right to put debt, climate and inequality at the heart of G20 Summary Johannesburg is hosting the first-ever G20 leaders’ meeting in Africa — a landmark moment…
Science on shaky ground: Canadian research shifts in the wake of US cuts Summary Cuts to US federal science funding — notably at agencies such as the NIH, NOAA and…
China-aligned threat actor is conducting widespread cyberespionage campaigns Summary Researchers at ESET have uncovered a long-running cyberespionage campaign by a China-aligned group tracked as PlushDaemon. The group implants routers and…
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry? Summary Nancy Smith, paralysed after a 2008 car crash, used an implanted brain–computer interface (BCI) to play tunes…
Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation Summary SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team reports that around 50,000 ASUS WRT routers — mainly end-of-life models — have been…
Microsoft spins up Azure HorizonDB to take on distributed Postgres rivals Summary Microsoft has launched Azure HorizonDB, a fully distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database service designed to compete with hyperscaler and third-party…
Here is the formatted newsletter: Opening Shot: The Silent Trojans The term “silent Trojans” refers to a concerning cybersecurity threat lurking in organizations’ networks and systems. Just like the infamous…
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’ Summary MI5 has issued an espionage alert warning that Chinese intelligence officers are using fake recruitment agents…
