SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot Summary South Korea’s privacy regulator, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), has fined SK Telecom ₩134.5…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Content summary Slashdot reports on growing public anger over always-on smart glasses that listen and record, sparked by coverage from Futurism…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Content Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports targeted a dozen US universities as students returned to campus, prompting shelter-in-place…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli duo of independent cybersecurity researchers built an automated pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and public…
Summary Ravi Sharma argues that audits should be treated as strategic partners in cloud transformation, not obstacles. Auditors embedded early can spot design and configuration risks (for example, unencrypted backup…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting: high-profile law-enforcement takedowns have dismantled major operations but scattered affiliates, prompting rebrands and the emergence…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary The City of Baltimore authorised more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer impersonated a legitimate vendor…
Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync Summary A reader-nominated engineer, “Kim”, was called in to fix an air-gapped lab where servers had…
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 only 12…
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 protection update for the…
