The mandatory retention of metadata is an evergreen of European digital policy. Despite a number of rulings by Europe’s highest court, confirming again and again the incompatibility of general and ind...

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BeyondTrust has released security updates to fix a high-severity flaw in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) solutions that can let unauthenticated attackers gain remote code ex...

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Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server.…

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 The frequency and intensity of cyberthreats seem to be increasing despite businesses' ongoing efforts to thwart malicious actors. Honeywell, a global technology and manufacturing firm that also provides cybersecurity solutions, reported a 46% rise in ransomware extortion attacks between October 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, as compared to the previous six-month period.  Win32.Worm.Ramnit, a Trojan that typically targets the banking sector to steal account details, was found in 37% of files blocked by Honeywell's SMX product. That represented a 3,000% rise from the second quarter of 2024, when Honeywell last reported on it.  In its investigation report, Honeywell stated that "it can likely be assumed it has been repurposed to extract control system credentials" due to the Trojan's saturation presence in the ecosystems of its industrial clients. "Existing adversaries continue to disrupt operations across critical sectors, even in the absence of new ransomware variants specifically designed for industrial control systems."  1,929 ransomware incidents were made public throughout the reporting period. Eight verticals accounted for the vast majority (71%) of the cases, with the industries most affected being manufacturing, construction, healthcare, and technology.  Given that ransomware attacks are normally "more opportunistic, typically creating a normal distribution of attacks across different industries," Honeywell noted that this was a really unusual pattern. The report claims that supply chain disruptions, manual failovers, and forced production outages caused by ransomware have been experienced by manufacturing plants, water treatment facilities, and energy providers.  In response to the elevated threats, during the reporting period, some organisations "doubled down on best practices that would be considered baseline," according to Honeywell. Such procedures include, for example, immutable data backups and regular vulnerability assessments. According to Honeywell, as of October 2024, victimised organisations had paid out more than $1 billion in ransomware.  Another new cybersecurity report, from the Information Security Media Group, focused on artificial intelligence, which it described as the "defining force" of cybersecurity-related disruption.  As businesses use AI to automate threat detection and scale response capabilities, "adversaries are using the same technologies to enhance phishing, generate polymorphic malware, and conduct identity fraud with unprecedented precision," according to the ISMG research. ISMG added that the combination of AI and quantum computing "further signals a critical shift requiring crypto-agility and forward planning.”

Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).…

Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work in an environment where criti...

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On the desktop, most people use the official HTML and JavaScript-based client for Discord in either a browser or a still-smells-like-a-browser Electron package. Yet what if there was a way …read more

Honda will supply last-mile delivery companies with the Fastport eQuad.

GLAM-E Labs report warns of risk to online cultural resources Bots harvesting content for AI companies have proliferated to the point that they're threatening digital collections of arts and culture.…

According to reports, the US Department of Justice will assess whether the deal would harm competition in the cybersecurity market.