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Google smart glasses privacy features cover wearers and the people around them

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Google smart glasses privacy features cover wearers and the people around them 2026-11-13 at 01:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has built its Gemini-powered intelligent eyewear to stop taking photos and video when someone covers or tampers with the outward-facing recording light. Shahram Izadi, Google’s VP and GM of XR, laid out that safeguard along with […]

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Hackers abuse refrigeration controllers to send spam and route proxy traffic

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Hackers abuse refrigeration controllers to send spam and route proxy traffic 2026-11-09 at 16:54 By Sinisa Markovic Internet-exposed refrigeration controllers used in supermarkets and cold storage facilities are being hijacked and turned into infrastructure for a suspected spam botnet and proxy services, SecurityScorecard has found. The report follows a string of attacks against European refrigeration […]

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US agencies warn attackers are targeting refrigeration systems that protect food and medicine

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US agencies warn attackers are targeting refrigeration systems that protect food and medicine 2026-11-06 at 11:04 By Sinisa Markovic Threat actors are going after the controllers that keep grocery store freezers and cold storage rooms at safe temperatures, and they may push those units into continuous heating and defrost cycles, five US federal agencies warned […]

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Google disrupts XCPE botnet, bans the company behind it

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Google disrupts XCPE botnet, bans the company behind it 2026-11-02 at 17:50 By Mirko Zorz Google shut down the servers behind XCPE, a backdoor hidden in the firmware of Android TV set-top boxes. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group attributes the operation with high confidence to Videostrong Technology, the company that manufactured many of those boxes. More […]

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UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs

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UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs 2026-10-23 at 15:37 By Sinisa Markovic Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The proposal comes from a White Paper by the Department for […]

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Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong

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Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong 2026-10-23 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Nick Donarski, CTO at RotorLab, explains what councils, records clerks, insurers, and auditors expect from a public safety drone program, and where most programs fall short. He covers chain of custody […]

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Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem

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Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem 2026-10-21 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. Cardiac care […]

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Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted

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Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted 2026-10-12 at 19:07 By Zeljka Zorz European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their freezers tampered with and chilled/frozen products destroyed, while in the Netherlands and Belgium workers at stores owned […]

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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe 2026-10-09 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU that should not be reachable from the internet. The […]

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Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment

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Even with OT network visibility, critical infrastructure operators struggle with legacy equipment 2026-10-07 at 07:50 By Anamarija Pogorelec Large critical infrastructure operators run seven separate security tools on average, and most still cannot see every asset on their operational technology (OT) networks. That is the picture from a Palo Alto Networks survey of more than […]

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MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board

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MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board 2026-10-05 at 12:50 By Mirko Zorz CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and extend with plug-in hardware. Insert a SIM and it makes real […]

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Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator?

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Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator? 2026-09-24 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic controllers, the small industrial computers that run pumps and […]

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A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers

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A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers 2026-09-22 at 09:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Researchers from the i2CAT Foundation, the University of Murcia, and NEC Laboratories Europe built a low-cost tool called 5G-Shark that lures a target phone onto a fake base station and questions it, then used it to audit commercial 5G […]

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Apple is building photo verification for the people who need it most

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Apple is building photo verification for the people who need it most 2026-09-10 at 11:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec Apple has introduced Apple Reference Image, an opt-in feature designed to verify the authenticity of photos taken with iPhone 18 Pro models. Apple Reference Image provides users with an unalterable reference photo, visually confirming what the sensor […]

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A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware

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A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware 2026-09-10 at 07:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open standard that lets AI model builders decide when and where their weights can be decrypted once those weights leave […]

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Hackers exploit RouterOS flaws to hijack MikroTik devices without authentication

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Hackers exploit RouterOS flaws to hijack MikroTik devices without authentication 2026-09-07 at 17:07 By Sinisa Markovic Attackers are exploiting a chain of RouterOS vulnerabilities to hijack MikroTik devices with SSH open to the internet, CERT Polska found. CERT Polska, Poland’s national CSIRT team, have discovered six vulnerabilities in RouterOS and coordinated their disclosure with MikroTik. […]

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AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate

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AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate 2026-08-27 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Camera systems often outlive the companies that install them. In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Janssens, EMEA Cyber Security Director at Hikvision Europe, discusses what happens when the integrator is gone, the documentation is lost, and nobody […]

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Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver

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Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver 2026-08-17 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or modifying the target machine. The attack assumes the attacker has […]

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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months

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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months 2026-08-07 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the number was 2,354. The count fell across April, May, […]

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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic

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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic 2026-08-05 at 12:35 By Mirko Zorz TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the Omada cloud service returns the […]

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