Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday baker’s dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE Summary Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday addresses 111 vulnerabilities across its products, including 12 rated critical and one publicly…
Pennsylvania attorney general says cyberattack knocked phone, email systems offline Summary The Office of Pennsylvania’s Attorney General reported that its phone and email systems are offline after a cyberattack. The…
Alarm raised over ‘high-severity’ vulnerabilities in Matrix messaging protocol Summary The Matrix Foundation has released an off-cycle security update to patch two high-severity vulnerabilities in the Matrix federated messaging protocol…
Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul’s 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash Summary The Interlock ransomware gang has published a 43GB trove of files it says were…
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes Summary The Matrix.org Foundation has disclosed two “high severity” protocol vulnerabilities that require a coordinated, breaking…
I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11 Summary Columnist Mark Pesce recounts a recent visit to an American urgent care clinic where a receptionist, after checking his…
Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don’t have to dash to the printer to grab the ‘Fire everyone’ memo Summary Microsoft has made “Pull Print” (also called “Universal Print Anywhere”)…
What is data in use? Summary Data in use is any digital information actively being accessed, processed, updated, erased or read by a system, application, user or device. Unlike data…
Sloppy AI Defenses Take Cybersecurity Back To the 1990s, Researchers Say Summary At Black Hat USA 2025 researchers and security veterans warned that the rush to deploy generative AI and…
Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System Summary Investigators have found evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a hack of the computer…
