Latest news as of 11/18/2025, 9:04:23 AM
The Register
Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year The government is to encourage police forces across England and Wales to adopt live facial recognition (LFR) technology, with a minister praising its use by the Metropolitan Police in a suburb of South London.…
The Register
Zhimin Qian recruited takeaway worker to launder funds through property overseas London's Metropolitan Police has secured a "landmark conviction" following a record-busting Bitcoin seizure and seven-year investigation.…
The Hacker News
A Chinese national has been convicted for her role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme after law enforcement authorities in the U.K. confiscated £5.5 billion (about $7.39 billion) during a raid of her home in London. The cryptocurrency seizure, amounting to 61,000 Bitcoin, is believed to be the single largest such effort in the world, the Metropolitan Police said. Zhimin Qian (aka Yadi Zhang),
The Hacker News
The world of enterprise technology is undergoing a dramatic shift. Gen-AI adoption is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and SaaS vendors are embedding powerful LLMs directly into their platforms. Organizations are embracing AI-powered applications across every function, from marketing and development to finance and HR. This transformation unlocks innovation and efficiency, but it also
The Register
Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.… Opinion
Dark Reading
A researcher-developed framework could enable attackers to conduct real-time conversations using simulated audio to compromise organizations and extract sensitive information.
The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3), which affects Sudo versions prior to
The Register
The federal government's not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1 The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday will cut its ties to - and funding for - the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost cybersecurity services to state and local governments.…
Bleeping Computer
The Metropolitan Police has secured a conviction in what is believed to be the world's largest cryptocurrency seizure, valued at more than £5.5 billion ($7.3 billion). [...]
Dark Reading
The Internet of Things (IoT) has made everything more interconnected than ever, but an important US government security initiative is stuck in limbo even as threat actors step up attacks on everything from medical gear to printers.