Russia recently blocked FaceTime, citing terrorism, but left iMessage untouched. A new theory suggests Apple may have accidentally made its messaging service nearly impossible for governments to ban by tying it to a core iPhone function.
Google has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Gemini Enterprise AI that could silently exfiltrate corporate data. Dubbed “GeminiJack,” it exploited the AI’s access to Workspace documents without requiring any user interaction. This highlights a new frontier in corporate security risks.
America’s largest hospice provider, VITAS Healthcare, disclosed a devastating breach where hackers operated freely for 36 days. They stole Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses, and next-of-kin info for over 319,000 vulnerable patients.
The critical React2Shell vulnerability is now being exploited by actors linked to North Korea, according to new research. They’re using it to deploy a sophisticated remote access trojan that uses Ethereum smart contracts for stealth.
Portugal has carved out legal protections for cybersecurity researchers, a move that highlights the UK’s outdated Computer Misuse Act. UK Security Minister Dan Jarvis has now admitted the 1990 law needs updating to create a “statutory defense” for researchers.
A proposed EU law aiming to create a single space market could have significant financial downsides. An analysis projects hundreds of millions in lost revenue for transatlantic companies, with Chinese firms seeing little impact.
An anti-AI activist who helped found the Stop AI group is now missing and considered armed and dangerous by San Francisco police. Sam Kirchner, 27, allegedly threatened to buy weapons and target OpenAI workers, leading to a lockdown at the company’s offices last month. His former colleagues are more
A widespread Cloudflare outage is causing problems for sites like LinkedIn and Coinbase. Interestingly, Epic Games’ status page shows Fortnite servers as fully functional despite the reports.
Rachel Tobac, a champion ethical hacker, explains that the real security threat isn’t complex code—it’s human psychology. She’s made it her mission to teach people and companies how to defend against these manipulative attacks.
The Linux kernel is getting a performance boost for encryption. New optimizations in the 6.19 release specifically benefit AMD Zen 3 and modern Intel CPUs with advanced vector extensions.
