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Shift comes amid mounting reports of successful social engineering attacks targeting higher-ups in government Continue reading Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of ‘secure’ state-developed alternative→

MoD says StormBreaker will plug gap until homegrown SPEAR 3 integration lands Continue reading F-35 software delays leave UK buying time with US glide bombs→

Firefox maker says the tools are basic security infrastructure, not teenage contraband Continue reading Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain’s age-check mess→

Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’ Continue reading Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’→

Attackers stole a limited amount of internal credential material after malware hidden in poisoned packages reached two staff machines Continue reading OpenAI caught in TanStack npm supply chain chaos after employee devices compromised→

Parliamentary committee tells ministers online safety regime is failing children and warns ‘no action is not an option’ Continue reading MPs want social media treated more like unsafe toys than harmless apps→

Owe Martin Andresen faces charges in both US and Germany connected with money laundering, claims he sent gold bars directly to his doorstep Continue reading Cops arrest man suspected of being Dream Market kingpin→

Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling Continue reading Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access→