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Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long

A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…

300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life

The UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses.…

Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure

Indian authorities have reportedly ordered an audit of the nation’s CCTV cameras, after police uncovered what they claim was a Pakistan-backed surveillance operation.…

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization

A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability.…

They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone

Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company. …

Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security

RSAC 2026  "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says.…

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC…

rsac 2026  There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.…

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google

End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware fleet – and the news is better for Google and Apple than it is for Microsoft.…

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government

interview  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.…

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects

RSAC 2026  Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.…

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline

Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.…

Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia

Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.…

Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink

Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.…

Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions

A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.…

'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss

RSAC 2026  The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.…

Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs

RSA 2026  Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.…

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year

Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …

Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy

Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins

Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…

Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn’t 'material,' but then stolen data was published

Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.…