Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected Exclusive  A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium’s Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition – and, in some tests, freezing the host system.… READ MORE HERE…

The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp’s secrets.… READ MORE HERE…

Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.… READ MORE HERE…

Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users’ faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.… READ MORE HERE…

Move follows months-long procurement process as retailer refreshes parts of its IT support setup UK retailer Marks & Spencer has replaced Tata Consultancy Services as its IT service desk provider following a procurement process that began in January.… READ MORE HERE…