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The new measures are part of the Government Cyber Action Plan that establishes a dedicated Government Cyber Unit to coordinate risk management and incident response. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
UK announces plan to strengthen public sector cyber defenses
The United Kingdom has announced a new cybersecurity strategy, backed by more than £210 million ($283 million), to boost cyber defenses across government departments and the wider public sector.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The new measures are part of the Government Cyber Action Plan that establishes a dedicated Government Cyber Unit to coordinate risk management and incident response. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Tracked as CVE-2025-59470, this RCE security flaw affects Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.180 and all earlier version 13 builds. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
New Veeam vulnerabilities expose backup servers to RCE attacks
Veeam released security updates to patch multiple security flaws in its Backup & Replication software, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Tracked as CVE-2025-59470, this RCE security flaw affects Veeam Backup & Replication 13.0.1.180 and all earlier version 13 builds. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Threat actors are using the social engineering technique and a legitimate Microsoft tool to deploy the DCRat remote access Trojan against targets in the hospitality sector. www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...
ClickFix Campaign Serves Up Fake Blue Screen of Death
Threat actors are using the social engineering technique to deploy the DCRat remote access Trojan against targets in the hospitality sector.
www.darkreading.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Threat actors are using the social engineering technique and a legitimate Microsoft tool to deploy the DCRat remote access Trojan against targets in the hospitality sector. www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks...
Researchers with the security firm Resecurity said they caught threat actors from Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters in a honeypot using what the company described as "synthetic data." www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Snared in Researcher Honeypot
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, also known as ShinyHunters, were drawn in using a realistic, yet mostly fake, dataset.
www.darkreading.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Researchers with the security firm Resecurity said they caught threat actors from Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters in a honeypot using what the company described as "synthetic data." www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
A viral post highlighting biometric surveillance at a Wegmans grocery store in New York City is sparking renewed privacy concerns. www.aol.com/articles/pop...
Popular grocery store chain uses biometric surveillance on shoppers, raising privacy concerns
Wegmans allegedly uses facial recognition to scan its customers, sparking viral privacy concerns and legislative pushback over biometric data collection.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
A viral post highlighting biometric surveillance at a Wegmans grocery store in New York City is sparking renewed privacy concerns. www.aol.com/articles/pop...
Tracked as CVE-2026-0625 (CVSS score of 9.3), the security defect exists because the dnscfg.cgi library does not properly sanitize user-supplied DNS configuration parameters. www.securityweek.com/hackers-expl...
Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in Discontinued D-Link Devices
Threat actors are exploiting CVE-2026-0625, a critical zero-day vulnerability in discontinued D-Link devices for remote code execution (RCE).
www.securityweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Tracked as CVE-2026-0625 (CVSS score of 9.3), the security defect exists because the dnscfg.cgi library does not properly sanitize user-supplied DNS configuration parameters. www.securityweek.com/hackers-expl...
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public.
www.wired.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry—and making the results public. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
The long WD-SanDisk merger is officially unraveling. www.techspot.com/news/110818-...
SanDisk is replacing WD Blue and Black SSDs with new Optimus models
The transition marks the unspooling of the 2015 merger between the two firms, when Western Digital paid $19 billion for SanDisk to combine hard drive and flash...
www.techspot.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The long WD-SanDisk merger is officially unraveling. www.techspot.com/news/110818-...
A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk. go.theregister.com/feed/www.the...
Ring ready for end of the world as it turns cameras on fires
: Amazon's community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize danger
go.theregister.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:44 PM
A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk. go.theregister.com/feed/www.the...
Apparently, this breach of NordVPN is not true. databreaches.net/2026/01/06/n...
NordVPN Hack Claim Firmly Refuted by NordVPN – DataBreaches.Net
This has not been a great week for hackers whose claims have been refuted. First, ScatteredLapsus$Hunters' claim about Resecurity was refuted , and now claims b
databreaches.net
January 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Apparently, this breach of NordVPN is not true. databreaches.net/2026/01/06/n...
A new job listing suggests that Google is hiring engineers to verify AI answers and improve their quality, as it's reimagining the search experience. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/...
Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers
AI, including AI Overviews on Google Search, can hallucinate and often make up stuff or offer contradicting answers when asked in two different ways.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
A new job listing suggests that Google is hiring engineers to verify AI answers and improve their quality, as it's reimagining the search experience. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/...
With Microsoft's bewildering naming conventions, the mistake is easy to make. But Office is still Office, at least when it's not Microsoft 365. www.zdnet.com/article/micr...
No, Microsoft Office was not renamed Microsoft 365 Copilot - here's why you're confused
With Microsoft's bewildering naming conventions, the mistake is easy to make. But Office is still Office, at least when it's not Microsoft 365.
www.zdnet.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:36 PM
With Microsoft's bewildering naming conventions, the mistake is easy to make. But Office is still Office, at least when it's not Microsoft 365. www.zdnet.com/article/micr...
Microsoft's default settings aren't necessarily tuned for you, and a default setup comes with a handful of annoyances that you can quickly fix. www.zdnet.com/article/sett...
9 things I always do after setting up Windows 11 - and why you should too
Microsoft's default settings for Windows 11 are filled with tiny annoyances, including unnecessary taskbar icons and unwanted apps. Here's how to declutter your new setup and maximize your security se...
www.zdnet.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Microsoft's default settings aren't necessarily tuned for you, and a default setup comes with a handful of annoyances that you can quickly fix. www.zdnet.com/article/sett...
Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog. www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/h...
HSBC blocks app users for having sideloaded password manager
: Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid
www.theregister.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog. www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/h...
The star of Nvidia keynote was Alpamayo, what Jensen calls “the world’s first thinking, reasoning autonomous vehicle AI.” www.eweek.com/news/nvidia-...
Nvidia Built a Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Why It's Braking
Nvidia’s CES 2026 keynote unveiled Alpamayo, a reasoning AI for self-driving cars, plus new supercomputers, speech AI, and robotics models.
www.eweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The star of Nvidia keynote was Alpamayo, what Jensen calls “the world’s first thinking, reasoning autonomous vehicle AI.” www.eweek.com/news/nvidia-...
The company announced it will acquire humanoid robotics startup Mentee Robotics for $900 million, marking one of the largest humanoid robot deals in history. www.eweek.com/news/mobiley...
Mobileye to Buy Israeli Startup Mentee Robotics for $900M | eWEEK
The deal positions Mobileye to compete with Tesla, where CEO Elon Musk expects humanoid robots will become the company's largest business long-term.
www.eweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The company announced it will acquire humanoid robotics startup Mentee Robotics for $900 million, marking one of the largest humanoid robot deals in history. www.eweek.com/news/mobiley...
Blu-ray was the future of home video, once. www.techspot.com/news/110810-...
Blu-ray turns 20 years old: The optical disc that refuses to fade away
The Blu-ray format was officially introduced at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, although Sony had already developed the first prototypes in 2000. The Las Vegas trade show...
www.techspot.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Blu-ray was the future of home video, once. www.techspot.com/news/110810-...
The matte color display makes digital paper feel less like a compromise. Check it out. www.zdnet.com/article/tcl-...
I tried TCL's new e-paper tablet at CES, and it's a ReMarkable alternative in the best way
The matte color display makes digital paper feel less like a compromise. Check it out.
www.zdnet.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
The matte color display makes digital paper feel less like a compromise. Check it out. www.zdnet.com/article/tcl-...
American Airlines takes a page out of the Delta playbook. www.techspot.com/news/110826-...
American Airlines teams up with AT&T to bring free Wi-Fi to all flights
The in-flight perk requires membership in American's loyalty program, AAdvantage, which is free to join. Passengers can sign up ahead of time at AA's website or right...
www.techspot.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:24 PM
American Airlines takes a page out of the Delta playbook. www.techspot.com/news/110826-...
“Jamming will block all communications, not just communications from contraband devices,” wireless lobby group CTIA said in December 29 comments in response to Chairman Brendan Carr’s proposal. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC
Jamming will block all communications," including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC.
arstechnica.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“Jamming will block all communications, not just communications from contraband devices,” wireless lobby group CTIA said in December 29 comments in response to Chairman Brendan Carr’s proposal. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Read the First Amendment! Please! jeffhallinmn.substack.com/p/to-all-tho...
To All Those Saying America Is A Christian Nation
I really wish you people would read the document you claim to revere
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January 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Read the First Amendment! Please! jeffhallinmn.substack.com/p/to-all-tho...
In a McKinsey survey, nearly 66% of respondents said their companies had not yet begun scaling AI enterprisewide. Indeed, many companies have been stuck in an AI pilot purgatory, some hitting a wall with generative AI last year. www.ciodive.com/news/why-ent...
Why enterprise AI pilots fail
Leaders trying to scale AI tools across the organization contend with employee resistance, communication breakdowns and a lack of engagement.
www.ciodive.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
In a McKinsey survey, nearly 66% of respondents said their companies had not yet begun scaling AI enterprisewide. Indeed, many companies have been stuck in an AI pilot purgatory, some hitting a wall with generative AI last year. www.ciodive.com/news/why-ent...
The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet. www.404media.co/the-state-of...
The State of Anti-Surveillance Design
The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet.
www.404media.co
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet. www.404media.co/the-state-of...
"Many VPN connections lacked endpoint controls and network segmentation, enabling attackers to move literally across corporate networks," the researchers said. www.govinfosecurity.com/enduring-att...
The Enduring Attack Surface of VPNs
One way to look at the novel coronavirus pandemic: A societal experiment in how one oft-overlooked yet essential element of secure networking would stand up to an
www.govinfosecurity.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
"Many VPN connections lacked endpoint controls and network segmentation, enabling attackers to move literally across corporate networks," the researchers said. www.govinfosecurity.com/enduring-att...
Alibaba’s mapping arm Amap is pushing into ‘world models’ with FantasyWorld, betting spatial AI can power navigation and new services. www.scmp.com/business/chi...
Alibaba’s Amap muscles up on ‘world models’ in push beyond text-based AI
Alibaba’s mapping arm Amap is pushing into ‘world models’ with FantasyWorld, betting spatial AI can power navigation and new services.
www.scmp.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Alibaba’s mapping arm Amap is pushing into ‘world models’ with FantasyWorld, betting spatial AI can power navigation and new services. www.scmp.com/business/chi...