3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (471+ words) Identity verification firm IDScan said hackers obtained customer data held in its cloud platform following recent reports connecting the company to a database breach exposing scans of some 153 million driver’s licenses. The company confirmed a hack in a notice published…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (542+ words) Thousands of cryptocurrency holders were inundated with phishing emails on Wednesday after hackers breached an email provider and sent out corrupted messages. Trezor and BitBox did not confirm which email provider was breached, but CoinTracking said email service provider Brevo…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (446+ words) The new commander of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Force (NCF) stepped into the role this week, according to sources with knowledge of the appointment. The individual has not yet been avowed — the formal process in Britain by which an…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (577+ words) The FBI on Wednesday released its first-ever public cybersecurity strategy that details how the agency will combat malicious hackers and digital criminal gangs. “This is a comprehensive strategy that directs our teams, our field offices, our global presence, and how…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (277+ words) Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday release broke another record this month, surpassing 900 vulnerabilities for the first time. The federal cyberdefense agency, CISA, confirmed that two of them — CVE-2026-81963 and CVE-2026-85880 — are being exploited by hackers. Federal agencies have until September 22 to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (443+ words) Andrew Bailey, chair of the Financial Stability Board, called on financial institutions and technology providers to “prepare for more severe scenarios involving simultaneous disruption across multiple firms or shared technology dependencies.” The FSB was created by the G20 after the 2008 financial…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (623+ words) The British government is seeking new powers that would allow it to ban technology vendors on national security grounds from supplying companies working in the country’s critical sectors — potentially doing so in secret without publicly identifying the supplier concerned and…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (552+ words) The controversial license plate reader company Flock Safety is changing some of its policies to address the abuse of its technology by law enforcement officers amid growing backlash nationwide to the rapid spread of its cameras. The company announced Thursday…...

1+ mon, 18+ hour ago   (768+ words) Brazil has ordered Discord to suspend its livestreaming features while authorities investigate whether the platform failed to protect children from content encouraging self-harm and suicide. The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) said Wednesday that Discord’s Go Live feature must remain…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (538+ words) Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for 419 security vulnerabilities, one of the largest monthly counts on record and the latest sign that artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of software flaws security teams must contend with. In May, when Microsoft…...