Chinese Hackers Game Google to Boost Gambling Sites Summary A cybercrime operation tracked by ESET as “GhostRedirector” has been compromising Windows web servers and installing a malicious native IIS module…
Ukraine’s cyber chief on Russian hackers’ shifting tactics, US cyber aid Summary When Oleksandr Potii became head of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) in late…
Shein, Google hit with fines from French data protection regulator over cookie practices Summary France’s data protection authority, the CNIL, has fined Google €325 million and Shein €150 million for…
Chess.com says 4,500 people had data stolen during June breach Summary Chess.com disclosed that 4,541 users had personal information exposed after attackers breached a third-party file transfer application between 5…
Texas sues PowerSchool for breach exposing the data of students and teachers Summary The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against education technology provider PowerSchool over a December 2024…
Google hit with $425 million verdict in privacy class action suit Summary A federal jury awarded $425 million to a class of plaintiffs who said Google collected, retained and used…
Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has begun an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in two UK stores — Sydenham (London) and the…
Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself Summary Microsoft has published the assembly-language source for its 1976 6502 BASIC (version 1.1) on GitHub under the MIT licence.…
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government Summary ARIA, the UK’s DARPA-style agency, was not asked to make the 5% in-year savings other government departments were told…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Summary A UK Department for Business and Trade three-month pilot of Microsoft M365 Copilot (Oct–Dec 2024) found mixed results:…
