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DEK: Privacy experts say Google's quiet policy update on digital fingerprinting opens the door to deeper surveillance, discrimination, and data misuse—while the company insists nothing has changed. Digital fingerprinting eliminates the user's ability to opt out of data collection, and could expose users to increased surveillance, identity theft, and discriminatory practices.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of four security flaws in OpenSynergy's BlueSDK Bluetooth stack that, if successfully exploited, could allow remote code execution on millions of transport vehicles from different vendors. The vulnerabilities, dubbed PerfektBlue, can be fashioned together as an exploit chain to run arbitrary code on cars from at least three major automakers,
Graham Cluley
Paddy Power and BetFair have warned customers that "an unauthorised third party” gained access to “limited betting account information” relating to up to 800,000 of their customers.
The Hacker News
An Iranian-backed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) named Pay2Key has resurfaced in the wake of the Israel-Iran-U.S. conflict last month, offering bigger payouts to cybercriminals who launch attacks against Israel and the U.S. The financially motivated scheme, now operating under the moniker Pay2Key.I2P, is assessed to be linked to a hacking group tracked as Fox Kitten (aka Lemon Sandstorm). "
The Hacker News
A recently disclosed maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Wing FTP Server has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Huntress. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-47812 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of improper handling of null ('\0') bytes in the server's web interface, which allows for remote code execution. It has been addressed in version 7.4.4. "The user and
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The 2025 Data Risk Report: Enterprises face potentially serious data loss risks from AI-fueled tools. Adopting a unified, AI-driven approach to data security can help. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud-driven platforms and AI-powered tools to accelerate digital transformation, the stakes for safeguarding sensitive enterprise data have reached unprecedented levels. The Zscaler ThreatLabz
The Register
Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report from MPs has found.…
Bleeping Computer
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four people suspected of being involved in cyberattacks on major retailers in the country, including Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods. [...]
The Register
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career Welcome once again to On Call, 's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.… On Call The Register
The Register
'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyer A Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang.…