South Korea’s president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China’s censorship and snooping Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.… READ MORE HERE…
Even AI has doubts about the claim that ‘80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven’ Do 80 percent of ransomware attacks really come from AI? MIT Sloan has now withdrawn a working paper that made that eyebrow-raising claim after criticism from security researcher Kevin Beaumont.… READ MORE HERE…
Ukraine first to deploy open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement Feature It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours.… READ MORE HERE…
Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives OpenInfra Summit Sovereignty might be the word of the hour, but the OpenStack community has another – resilience.… READ MORE HERE…
Rare case of the state turning on its own, but researchers say it may be doing so more often Russia’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested three suspects it believes helped build and spread the Meduza infostealer.… READ MORE HERE…
Bitcoin bridge biz offers 10 percent reward to attackers if they play nice Blockchain company Garden admits it was compromised and temporarily shut down its app after approximately $11 million worth of assets were stolen.… READ MORE HERE…
Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven’t prescribed compatibility yet NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft’s latest operating system.… READ MORE HERE…
Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro, and ordered work that could see it enter circulation in 2029.… READ MORE HERE…
Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn’t plan on doing so themselves Some orgs would rather you not know when they’ve suffered a cyberattack, but a new platform from privacy-focused tech firm Proton will shine a light on the big breaches that might otherwise stay buried.… READ MORE HERE…
Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that Microsoft hasn’t fixed yet – to target European diplomats in an effort to steal defense and national security details.… READ MORE HERE…