Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed 2026-05-01 at 12:19 By SA Mathieson Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK’s now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration […]
Open-source privacy proxy masks PII before prompts reach external AI services 2026-05-01 at 11:49 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprise developers routinely send prompts to external large language models that contain customer emails, support transcripts, and other identifying information, often without a sanitization layer between the application and the API. Dataiku has released Kiji Privacy Proxy, an
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Shadow AI risks deepen as 31% of users get no employer training 2026-05-01 at 11:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Between one-fifth and one-third of workers use AI outside the influence and governance of the IT function, according to a global survey of 6,000 full-time employees at enterprise organizations. Researchers found a widening gap between employee AI
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Identity is the control plane for distributed infrastructure 2026-05-01 at 11:49 By Help Net Security Teleport CEO Ev Kontsevoy makes the case that distributed infrastructure, across cloud, Kubernetes, databases, and servers, can’t be secured by layering more tools on top of fragmented identity systems. He argues for fewer credentials, fewer entry points, and a single
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AI traffic is getting bigger, louder, and less predictable 2026-05-01 at 11:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI workflows need storage that supports repeated movement across the model lifecycle. Large datasets are ingested, transformed, exported for training, pulled back for evaluation, and refreshed as models evolve. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Network Stats report says this creates a shift
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Hugging Face, ClawHub Abused for Malware Distribution 2026-05-01 at 11:41 By Ionut Arghire Threat actors are relying on social engineering to lure users into downloading files containing malicious instructions. The post Hugging Face, ClawHub Abused for Malware Distribution appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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DVLA’s 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it 2026-05-01 at 11:30 By SA Mathieson Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it’s ‘putting things right’ The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new techto support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing
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FBI Warns of Surge in Hacker-Enabled Cargo Theft 2026-05-01 at 11:11 By Eduard Kovacs A new alert from the FBI says criminal enterprises are hacking both brokers and carriers to steal cargo for resale. The post FBI Warns of Surge in Hacker-Enabled Cargo Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek
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1,800 Hit in Mini Shai-Hulud Attack on SAP, Lightning, Intercom 2026-05-01 at 10:33 By Ionut Arghire The compromised Lightning and Intercom packages have a combined monthly download count of nearly 10 million. The post 1,800 Hit in Mini Shai-Hulud Attack on SAP, Lightning, Intercom appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek
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New infosec products of the month: April 2026 2026-05-01 at 07:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from Advenica, Aptori, Axonius, Broadcom, GlobalSign, Intruder, IP Fabric, Mallory, Secureframe, Siemens, Sitehop, and Virtue AI. Mallory brings contextual threat intelligence to security operations Mallory is launching
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12 Tips for Building an Effective Security Budget 2026-05-01 at 07:03 By Alan Saquella, CPP, shares 12 tips for building a strong security budget. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source
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ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 2026-05-01 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic
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The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools 2026-05-01 at 03:42 By Jessica Lyons Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.… This article
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Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By O’Ryan Johnson Stop the sprawl! With the average Global Fortune 500 enterprise expected to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, there’s plenty of room for chaos. Analyst firm Gartner says that, without proper governance, those
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Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By Thomas Claburn Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google’s decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as
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Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled 2026-05-01 at 02:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it’ll change the landscape,
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Apple iPhone powers quarterly sales to $111B: ‘Demand was off the charts’ 2026-05-01 at 01:57 By Reuters Sales of the iPhone, still the company’s best-selling product nearly 20 years after its introduction, were $56.99 billion. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source
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Meta threatens to shut down Instagram, Facebook in New Mexico if judge orders ‘impractical’ kids protections 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Thomas Barrabi The threat from Meta comes just weeks after a New Mexico jury slapped the company with $375 million in civil penalties and ruled that the company failed to protect kids from sexual predators
Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Dan Robinson Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as
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Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica’s latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet 2026-04-30 at 22:46 By Tobias Mann Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia’s 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica’s latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis.…