72 states sign first global UN Convention against Cybercrime 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec The world’s first global convention to prevent and respond to cybercrime opened for signature today in Hanoi, Vietnam, and will remain open at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 December 2026. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in […]
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New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Ionut Arghire All new extensions will be required to declare their data collection practices in their manifest file using a specific key. The post New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt
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BTC price eyes record monthly close: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week 2025-10-27 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin rebounded to $116,000, but traders were nervous about the bull market even while stocks soared on news of a likely US-China trade deal. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View
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From outflows to inflows: Bitcoin ETPs rally amid surprising economic update 2025-10-27 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Bitcoin, which had been the main driver of crypto ETP outflows a week earlier, almost fully recovered its losses with $931 million in inflows last week. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original
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Mt. Gox pushes repayments to 2026 as decade-long saga drags on 2025-10-27 at 13:02 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox postponed some long-awaited customer repayments by another year to Oct. 31, 2026, citing incomplete creditor procedures. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Everything you know about last week’s AWS outage is wrong 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By Corey Quinn AI wasn’t the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes Column AWS put out a hefty analysis of its October 20 outage, and it’s apparently written in a continuing stream of consciousness before the Red Bull wore off and the
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Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By Ionut Arghire Roughly 9 million exploit attempts were observed this month as mass exploitation of the critical vulnerabilities recommenced. The post Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Ransomware Payments Dropped in Q3 2025: Analysis 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By Eduard Kovacs Coveware has attributed the drop to large enterprises increasingly refusing to pay up and smaller amounts paid by mid-market firms. The post Ransomware Payments Dropped in Q3 2025: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original
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Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack 2025-10-27 at 12:57 By The ransomware group known as Qilin (aka Agenda, Gold Feather, and Water Galura) has claimed more than 40 victims every month since the start of 2025, barring January, with the number of postings on its data leak site touching a
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Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection 2025-10-27 at 11:52 By SA Mathieson Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog The UK government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has saved £4.4 million over three years by using machine learning to tackle fraud, according to the National
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The Chinese Box and Turing Test: Is AI really intelligent? 2025-10-27 at 11:37 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols No, it’s just good at mass-production copy and paste. And yes, we’re correctly applying Betteridge’s Law Opinion Remember ELIZA? The 1966 chatbot from MIT’s AI Lab convinced countless people it was intelligent using nothing but simple pattern matching
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The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse 2025-10-27 at 11:37 By Rupert Goodwins When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella Opinion When your cabbie asks you what you do for a living, and you answer “tech journalist,” you never get asked about cloud infrastructure
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ChatGPT Atlas Browser Can Be Tricked by Fake URLs into Executing Hidden Commands 2025-10-27 at 11:36 By The newly released OpenAI Atlas web browser has been found to be susceptible to a prompt injection attack where its omnibox can be jailbroken by disguising a malicious prompt as a seemingly harmless URL to visit. “The omnibox
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Chrome Zero-Day Exploitation Linked to Hacking Team Spyware 2025-10-27 at 11:33 By Ionut Arghire The threat actor behind Operation ForumTroll used the same toolset typically employed in Dante spyware attacks. The post Chrome Zero-Day Exploitation Linked to Hacking Team Spyware appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Can your earbuds recognize you? Researchers are working on it 2025-10-27 at 09:05 By Mirko Zorz Biometric authentication has moved from fingerprints to voices to facial scans, but a team of researchers believes the next step could be inside the ear. New research explores how the ear canal’s unique acoustic properties can be used to
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Australian crypto firms back draft laws, but ‘critical questions’ remain 2025-10-27 at 08:46 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Australia’s crypto exchanges have been largely positive about the government’s proposed crypto laws, but have told the Treasury that further clarity is needed. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Automattic accuses rival WordPress outfit WP Engine of ‘false advertising, and deceptive business practices’ 2025-10-27 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood FOSS feud re-ignites with massive counter-claim The long battle between Automattic and WP Engine has flared again, this time with accusations the latter company issued “false advertising”, and employed “deceptive business practices.”… This article is
Dependency-Track: Open-source component analysis platform 2025-10-27 at 08:46 By Sinisa Markovic Software is a patchwork of third-party components, and keeping tabs on what’s running under the hood has become a challenge. The open-source platform Dependency-Track tackles that problem head-on. Rather than treating software composition as a one-time scan, it continuously monitors every version of every
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DDoS, data theft, and malware are storming the gaming industry 2025-10-27 at 08:46 By Sinisa Markovic When the pandemic kept people at home in 2020, millions turned to games for an escape. The surge turned every console, PC, and phone into part of a vast online network. More players meant more logins, payments, and personal
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AI writes code like a junior dev, and security is feeling it 2025-10-27 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec The industry is entering a phase where code is being deployed faster than it can be secured, according to OX Security. Findings from the Army of Juniors: The AI Code Security Crisis report show that AI-generated code
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