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Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts 2026-03-03 at 23:39 By Thomas Claburn AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the […]

Lawmakers take pick to ICE’s warrantless location tracking purchases 2026-03-03 at 22:10 By Jessica Lyons After DHS’s $2.3M PenLink contract gets ‘shady’ label A group of 70 US lawmakers has called on Homeland Security’s inspector general to investigate whether its agencies – including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – illegally purchased Americans’ location data […]

Apple jacks up MacBook pricing with M5 Pro, Max debut 2026-03-03 at 22:10 By Tobias Mann No one can hide from the RAMapocalypse, not even Tim Apple RAM shortages and faster chips have a big impact on Apple’s next-gen laptops. On Tuesday, the iGiant unveiled its M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and M5 Airs […]

1M Impacted by University of Hawaii Cancer Center Breach 2026-03-03 at 22:10 By The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center’s Epidemiology Division revealed it experienced a data breach.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cyberwarriors elevated to big leagues in US war with Iran 2026-03-03 at 20:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers […]

Fake Tech Support Spam Deploys Customized Havoc C2 Across Organizations 2026-03-03 at 20:31 By Threat hunters have called attention to a new campaign as part of which bad actors masqueraded as fake IT support to deliver the Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework as a precursor to data exfiltration or ransomware attack. The intrusions, identified by Huntress […]

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13 2026-03-03 at 19:47 By Liam Proven Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that’s your sort of thing BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 “Trixie” arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed […]

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists 2026-03-03 at 19:47 By Carly Page Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails A group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it’s even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles […]

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better 2026-03-03 at 19:47 By Carly Page Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies Contrary to what some believe, cybercrime is not a kids’ game. Middle-aged adults, not teenagers, now make up the biggest chunk of people getting […]