May 2025

Ex-CISA employee: ‘This culture of fear started permeating the agency’ 2025-05-28 at 23:50 By Jessica Lyons ‘Everyone’s holding their breath’ Interview  It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the “culture of fear” began to permeate America’s top cyber-defense agency.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2 2025-05-28 at 23:26 By Brandon Vigliarolo Prototype packs triple the energy density of lithium-ion, they claim MIT boffins have built a prototype fuel cell using liquid sodium and air that could one day power aircraft, and may help capture carbon

Meta’s fate in FTC antitrust trial in limbo as judge weighs possible breakup 2025-05-28 at 22:18 By Thomas Barrabi Meta’s fate is up in the air after Mark Zuckerberg’s dirty laundry was aired out in a seven-week antitrust trial brought by the Federal Trade Commission – though some experts warn that the social media giant

JD Vance urges Bitcoin community to embrace politics 2025-05-28 at 22:05 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill United States Vice President JD Vance took the stage to deliver a keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, encouraging Bitcoiners to deepen their involvement in politics. Vance highlighted the strategic and geopolitical importance of

Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results 2025-05-28 at 21:50 By Thomas Claburn So much for buttering up ChatGPT with ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ Google co-founder Sergey Brin claims that threatening generative AI models produces better results.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k + 2025-05-28 at 21:50 By Connor Jones Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) is the latest big-name organization to disclose a serious cyberattack leading to data theft, with the number of affected individuals pegged at

Major data hack nabs 184M passwords for Google, Apple and more: ‘Cybercriminal’s dream’ 2025-05-28 at 21:18 By Brooke Steinberg The database containing the compromised passwords was ironically unencrypted and not password-protected itself, a report said. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Conduit raises $36M for stablecoin, fiat cross-border payment network 2025-05-28 at 21:01 By Cointelegraph by Christopher Tepedino Conduit, a cross-border payments company based in Boston, has raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures. The capital will go to scale its payment system and expand currency offerings across

BlackRock eyes 10% stake in Circle’s IPO 2025-05-28 at 21:01 By Cointelegraph by Ana Paula Pereira BlackRock is reportedly planning to take a significant stake in Circle’s upcoming initial public offering (IPO). According to a May 28 Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources, BlackRock is looking to purchase roughly 10% of the offering. Circle, the issuer

Arrival of Linux 6.15 hails end of 486-class CPUs 2025-05-28 at 20:48 By Liam Proven Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest Linux kernel – signalling the end of the line for 486-class chips.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Iranian Hacker Pleads Guilty in $19 Million Robbinhood Ransomware Attack on Baltimore 2025-05-28 at 20:47 By An Iranian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over his involvement in an international ransomware and extortion scheme involving the Robbinhood ransomware. Sina Gholinejad (aka Sina Ghaaf), 37, and his co-conspirators are said to have breached the computer

Czech Republic Blames China-Linked APT31 Hackers for 2022 Cyberattack 2025-05-28 at 20:47 By The Czech Republic on Wednesday formally accused a threat actor associated with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) of targeting its Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In a public statement, the government said it identified China as the culprit behind a malicious campaign

Cork Protocol hacked for $12M, smart contracts paused 2025-05-28 at 20:07 By Cointelegraph by Vince Quill Cork Protocol, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, was hit by a smart contract exploit on May 28, resulting in the loss of roughly $12 million in digital assets. Cybersecurity firm Cyvers said the hack occurred at 11:23:19 UTC and

DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS 2025-05-28 at 19:44 By Lindsay Clark Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers’ analytics and machine

More than 40% of Fintech Breaches Linked to Third-Party Vendors 2025-05-28 at 19:03 By More than 40% of breaches in fintech organizations can be linked to third-party vendors.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source