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Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide
If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths.…
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks
America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.…
Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months
The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026.…
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets
A ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more than 200 extensions.…
Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks
A new version of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit is out with enhanced testing support and improved memory management. The latter is a critical issue to devs and follows complaints of memory leaks causing problems in production.…
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping
It might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner's newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important message. The change may be glacial, but (most of the) dominant database vendors are slowly losing their grip on the market.…
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords
The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same.…
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap'
Blue Origin's New Glenn loss of a satellite has been classed as a "mishap" by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), triggering a mandatory investigation.…
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match
Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have our answer.…
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account
Vercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with "surprising velocity" and a deep understanding of the company's infrastructure.…
Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies
A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum.…
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters
London's Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city's pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn't rely on live facial recognition (LFR).…
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one
Ministers are moving to turn England's patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.…
Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it
Windows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager's CPU usage meter.…
Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul
UK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware crew claims it grabbed far more than the company is currently admitting.…
Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture
Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.…
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war
Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.…
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing
The NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spacesuits won’t finish in time to use them for the planned Artemis III Moon landing mission in 2028.…
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank.…
Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus
Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users' sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story keeps changing: First it attributed the publicly exposed info to "intentional behavior" and "unclear documentation," then threw bug-bounty service HackerOne under the bus.…