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…

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…