February 2026
Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news
Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.…
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake
Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs Dutch police have arrested a man for "computer hacking" after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back.…
You probably can’t trust your password manager if it’s compromised
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.…
Open source registries don’t have enough money to implement basic security
Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money fosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.…
Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface
High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox Google has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser's first reported zero-day of 2026.…
Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024
As if admins haven't had enough to do this week Ignore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses and government agencies to attack.…
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper
Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed – but biz insists passwords and call data untouched The Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.…
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals' Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals.…
Supply chain attacks now fuel a ‘self-reinforcing’ cybercrime economy
Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a "self-reinforcing" ecosystem, researchers say.…
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend
Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than £4.6 billion in spending and more than 3,000 specialist staff.…