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Digital overhaul at UK’s NS&I bank is £1.3B over budget and 4 years late 2025-11-14 at 15:22 By Lindsay Clark Watchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity Updated  The UK’s state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the […]

Holiday Mobile Threats Quadrupled in 2024 — What’s Expected This Year? 2025-11-14 at 15:22 By With cyber threats only growing in sophistication and speed, it’s likely that retailers and shoppers alike will be facing another increase in attacks and scams this year.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign 2025-11-14 at 15:22 By State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree –

Now-Patched Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Exploited in Attacks to Create Admin Accounts 2025-11-14 at 15:22 By Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise a device. “The watchTowr team is seeing active, indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation of

Tales from the pit: AI and the software engineer 2025-11-14 at 15:15 By Alain Dekker Exploring the evolving relationship between human engineers and their algorithmic assistants Feature  Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sense of “AI replacing developers.”… This article is

Alibaba weighs deposit token as China clamps down on stablecoins: Report 2025-11-14 at 14:41 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Alibaba’s global e-commerce arm is reportedly developing a bank-backed deposit token for cross-border payments as Beijing tightens its crackdown on stablecoins. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Report blasts UK Ministry of Defence over Afghan data-handling failures 2025-11-14 at 14:40 By Connor Jones Public Accounts Committee tears into department responsible for the most dangerous breach in British history The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to appropriately improve its data protection mechanisms, three years

Trillionaire fantasies, investor dreams, reality nightmares 2025-11-14 at 14:30 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Why Musk won’t ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout Opinion  At Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk that would make him history’s first trillionaire.… This article

Proof of reserves is crypto’s key to rebuilding trust and transparency 2025-11-14 at 14:30 By Cointelegraph by Lennix Lai Transparency through proof of reserves is essential for restoring and maintaining trust in crypto exchanges, ensuring security through independent audits and verifiable reserves. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

UK tribunal says reselling Microsoft licenses is A-OK 2025-11-14 at 13:45 By Richard Speed Windows giant disagrees and plans to appeal Microsoft’s attempt to claim that its software can’t be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can’t sell their licenses

XRP ETF debut outshines all 2025 launches with $250M inflows, record volume 2025-11-14 at 13:43 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Canary Capital’s XRP ETF outperformed all 900 ETF launches of 2025, inspiring a bullish rotation among the industry’s most successful traders, who are now betting on XRP’s price increasing. This article is an excerpt from

Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns 2025-11-14 at 12:37 By Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date. 1,590 victims disclosed across 85 leak sites, showing high, sustained activity despite law-enforcement pressure. 14 new ransomware brands launched this quarter, proving