WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a critical vulnerability in its iOS and macOS apps (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that was used…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft “digital escorts” programme after learning that China-based coders,…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its Javelin anti-cheat can run…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, developed by two Israeli security researchers, can generate proof-of-concept exploit code for disclosed vulnerabilities in minutes. The…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary The City of Baltimore made more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer impersonated a legitimate vendor…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting: law enforcement takedowns of major groups are scattering affiliates and prompting rebrands, and that disruption…
Summary A techie (pseudonymously “Kim”) fixed an air-gapped lab where servers had drifted far out of time sync with the lab’s domain controller NTP server. The NTP client daemons on…
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Summary Click Studios has released Passwordstate build 9972 to address two security issues: a clickjacking fix for the browser extension and…
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Summary The UK government’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has summoned senior officials to explain why only 12 of…
Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Summary The Pentagon has ordered Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers to support Azure cloud services used by US…
