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Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities
TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam" claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing its devices as secure despite reported firmware vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors.…
Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes
If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country's national rail company says that its services were disrupted for hours because of a cyberattack.…
Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way
Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say.…
Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable'
Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project's author claims makes the "update process robust and effectively unexploitable."…
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken "just like an iPhone," the Netherlands' defense secretary has claimed.…
HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training AI
HackerOne has clarified its stance on GenAI after researchers fretted their submissions were being used to train its models.…
Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet
If enterprises are implementing AI, they’re not showing it to Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who on Tuesday said business adoption of the tech lags consumer take-up by at least a couple of years – except for coding assistants.…
China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection
China-linked attackers exploited a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines as a zero-day since at least mid-2024. It's all part of a long-running effort to backdoor infected machines for long-term access, according to Google's Mandiant incident response team.…
China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down'
Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well-known Beijing-backed crew - Volt Typhoon - continued to compromise cellular gateways and routers, and then break into US electric, oil, and gas companies in 2025, according to Dragos' annual threat report published on Tuesday.…
US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China
A US law firm has accused Lenovo of violating Justice Department strictures about the bulk transfer of data to foreign adversaries, namely China.…
Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid
Polish police have arrested and charged a man over ties to the Phobos ransomware group following a property raid.…
UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open
Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…
Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform's Grok AI chatbot.…
MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost
Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.…
Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news
Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.…
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
Dutch police have arrested a man for "computer hacking" after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back.…
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.…
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
fosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.…
Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface
Google has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser's first reported zero-day of 2026.…
US appears open to reversing some China tech bans
Asia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.…