2025
TP-Link accuses rival Netgear of ‘smear campaign’ over alleged China ties
Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.…
Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say watchdogs
Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.…
Palo Alto kit sees massive surge in malicious activity amid mystery traffic flood
GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.…
Palo Alto CEO tips nation-states to weaponize quantum computing by 2029
Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced.…
Researchers claim ‘largest leak ever’ after uncovering WhatsApp enumeration flaw
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."…
Tens of thousands more ASUS routers pwned by suspected, evolving China operation
Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team.…
Selling technology investments to the board: a strategic guide for CISOs and CIOs
The C-suite will have zero interest in zero trust without a good business case Partner Content In today's enterprise environment, technology investments are no longer judged solely by their technical sophistication. Approval depends on their ability to support business goals, mitigate risk, and create value for shareholders. CIOs…
China recruiting spies in the UK with fake headhunters and ‘sites like LinkedIn’
MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.…
Self-replicating botnet attacks Ray clusters
Using AI to attack AI Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
Take fight to the enemy, US cyber boss says
When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.…