Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and…
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac…
PI’s response to the UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology on data regulation in the age of AI and other data-intensive technologies
Advocacy Post date 25th September 2026 Our submission covers the following topics, following the government’s call for evidence: How AI challenges the…
Ukrainian ransomware developer jailed for nearly 13 years
A court in Zurich has sentenced a Ukrainian man to 12 years and nine months in prison, and banned him from Switzerland…
There’s a new way to break RSA that’s faster than anything we’ve seen before
The forgery attack drops these levels to 265, 290, and 2119 for 1024-, 2048-, and 4096-bit keys respectively. These levels may further…
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known…
Human rights standards and guidelines on the use of digital technologies in electoral processes
As the use of digital technologies in electoral processes is growing in scale and scope, so too does their impact on human…
Smashing Security podcast #486: Vibe-coded shops, and hackable Flock cameras
DAVE BITTNER I have to say, what this reminds me of is there was a glitch on Amazon for a while. I…
FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
To get the advisory changed, ShinyHunters told FBI director Kash Patel and the assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division, Brett Leatherman,…
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming…