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Fake job applications pack malware that kills EDR before stealing data

40 min 22 sec ago
Russian-speaking attackers lure HR staff into downloading ISO files that disable defenses

A Russian-speaking cyber criminal is targeting corporate HR teams with fake CVs that quietly install malware which can disable security tools before stealing data from infected machines.…

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Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones

43 min 15 sec ago
Warning, lockout, then wipe if your device trips detection

Microsoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.…

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Ericsson blames vendor vishing slip-up for breach exposing thousands of records

1 hour 55 min ago
Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people

A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…

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Protecting democracy means democratizing cybersecurity. Bring on the hackers

2 hours 2 min ago
Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us

Opinion The hacker mind is a curious way to be. To have it means to embody endless analytical curiosity, an awareness of any given rule set as just one system among many, and an ability to see any system in ways that its creators never expected. Combine this with a drive to find the bad and make things better, and you become one of the fundamental forces of the technological universe.…

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Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12

2 hours 30 min ago
Kids profited from tools used to attack popular websites, say officials

Polish police have referred seven suspected juvenile cybercriminals to family court over an alleged scheme to flog DDoS kits online.…

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Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope

3 hours 11 min ago
Analog video spied by looking really, really closely at tracks

A retro tech enthusiast has demonstrated that it is possible to view media on LaserDisc using a relatively inexpensive digital microscope.…

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Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights

4 hours 6 min ago
Aircraft on the ground briefly halted until systems were up again

JetBlue took the unusual step of requesting a groundstop for all flights this morning, with the US airline resuming operations less than an hour later and blaming the stop on "a brief system outage."…

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Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers

4 hours 41 min ago
Autonomous assistants could manipulate choices, push pricier deals, and prioritize their creators

Britain's competition watchdog says the next wave of agentic AI assistants could end up nudging people toward worse deals, manipulating choices, or quietly prioritizing the interests of the companies behind them.…

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Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases

6 hours 40 min ago
As Citrix slips out a preview of Xen Server 9, the release that brings it back to the V12N mainstream

The Xen Project has decided to support all releases of its flagship hypervisor for five years, and one of the first beneficiaries of the change is Citrix, which has delivered a preview of XenServer 9 – the release that will take the product back into the mainstream virtualization market.…

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SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed

8 hours 43 min ago
Solar winds near aliens’ homes – and ours – might be blowing away signs of alien technosignatures by broadening signals

The SETI Institute, the nonprofit that conducts a search for extraterrestrial intelligence by examining radio waves for artefacts that are unlikely to be the result of natural processes, thinks it may have been going about it the wrong way.…

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HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay

11 hours 14 min ago
With memory and storage contributing over half the price of a server, Big Green needs to protect its margins

HPE has changed its terms and conditions in ways that allow it to change hardware prices after it’s issued a quote, due to rampant storage and memory price rises.…

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Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

12 hours 46 min ago
As Department of Agriculture staff come back to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using Palantir to figure out where its staff should sit, after deciding only the colorful AI company can do the job.…

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Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool

Mon, 2026-03-09 23:06
First vibe coding, now vibe reviewing ... but the buzz is good as it finds worthy issues

Anthropic has introduced a more extensive – and expensive – way to review source code in hosted repositories, many of which already contain large swaths of AI-generated code.…

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AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours

Mon, 2026-03-09 22:22
David and Goliath…but with AI agents

Researchers at red-team security startup CodeWall say their AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform and gained full read and write access to the chatbot in just two hours.…

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Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds

Mon, 2026-03-09 20:19
Enjoy meltdowns from businesses on Yelp over negative reviews? AI is threatening to take that away

Angry company responses to customer complaints are a favorite topic of internet amusement and outrage, but they're also embarrassing for the employees who post them. Having AI process customer reviews could be a better way. …

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Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent

Mon, 2026-03-09 19:26
Copilot gets tuned to handle long-running knowledge work tasks

Microsoft on Monday celebrated freedom of choice by giving customers in the company's Frontier program the option to use Anthropic and OpenAI models via Copilot Chat.…

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ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist

Mon, 2026-03-09 18:30
And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks

ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.…

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Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream

Mon, 2026-03-09 18:08
Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute

Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites, criticizing it as incomplete, speculative, and unrealistic.…

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China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon

Mon, 2026-03-09 17:49
Not a US flag in sight

Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.…

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Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web

Mon, 2026-03-09 17:26
Feeds are alive, well and can help deshittify things

opinion A couple of timely blog posts remind us that RSS is alive, well, and can help you resist enshittification of the Web.…

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