2026
Starmer’s digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor
Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Opinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due…
Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack
Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.…
Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents
Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them…
State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.…
Amazon security boss says crims abused max-security Cisco firewall flaw weeks before disclosure
Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.…
North Korea’s 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un
Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the…
Britain’s satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus
No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.…
Iran’s cyberattack against med tech firm is ‘just the beginning’
Even without a navy, or air power, 'They'll still have the ability to hack' Businesses should expect that Iran will conduct more aggressive cyber-ops as the war escalates, according to security analysts.…
Linux Foundation kicks off effort to shield FOSS maintainers from AI slop bug reports
Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rolling Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…
EU sanctions Iranian cyber front over election meddling, Charlie Hebdo breach
State-sponsored attackers joined by Chinese snoops and hackers-for-hire in latest round of economic penalties The Council of the European Union sanctioned Emennet Pasargad on Monday, a company used as a front for a series of Iranian cyberattacks.…