August 8, 2025
Chinese biz using AI to hit US politicians, influencers with propaganda
In misinformation, Russia might be the top dog but the Chinese are coming warns former NSA boss DEF CON A cache of documents uncovered by Vanderbilt University has revealed disturbing details about how a Chinese company is building up a database of US politicians and influencers with whom…
Star leaky app of the week: StarDict
Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext As Trixie gets ready to début, a little-known app is hogging the limelight: StarDict, which sends whatever text you select, unencrypted, to servers in China.…
Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity
Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm' Comment Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes.…
Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps
Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed Black hat A trio of researchers has disclosed a major prompt injection vulnerability in Google's Gemini large language model-powered applications.…
UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases
Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’ Privacy groups report a surge in UK police facial recognition scans of databases secretly stocked with passport photos lacking parliamentary oversight.…
UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act
It's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims Amid the furor around surging VPN usage in the UK, many users are eyeing proxies as a potential alternative to the technology.…