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Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache 2026-05-05 at 02:51 By Brandon Vigliarolo 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research […]

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human’s work 2026-05-05 at 02:51 By Thomas Claburn Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, […]

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop 2026-05-04 at 22:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer’s website, even if you can’t get to space We’ve all been there: You’re doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal […]

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop 2026-05-04 at 22:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer’s website, even if you can’t get to space We’ve all been there: You’re doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal […]

New Mexico’s proposed kids safety fixes for Instagram, Facebook may go too far, judge warns 2026-05-04 at 22:03 By Thomas Barrabi New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez is pushing for extensive changes and up to $3.7 billions in penalties after a state jury ruled last month that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta had failed to protect kids […]

Sandhills Medical Foundation Notified Individuals of a May 2025 Data Breach 2026-05-04 at 22:03 By Individuals were recently notified of a ransomware attack affecting Sandhills Medical Foundation that occurred in May 2025. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Phishing Campaign Hits 80+ Orgs Using SimpleHelp and ScreenConnect RMM Tools 2026-05-04 at 21:21 By An active phishing campaign has been observed targeting multiple vectors since at least April 2025, with legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software as a way to establish persistent remote access to compromised hosts. The activity, codenamed VENOMOUS#HELPER, has impacted […]

EBay pops 6% as GameStop’s Ryan Cohen makes unsolicited $56B offer to buy company 2026-05-04 at 21:07 By Thomas Barrabi The company’s valuation is currently hovering around $48.8 billion following the Monday stock surge. Meanwhile, GameStop’s shares were down more than 8%, dropping its market cap below $11 billion – meaning it is far smaller […]

Elon Musk pressured OpenAI’s Greg Brockman to settle lawsuit or become one of ‘most hated men in America’: filing 2026-05-04 at 21:07 By Thomas Barrabi In the filing, OpenAI’s legal team argues that Musk’s texts to Brockman lend to support to one of their core arguments – that Musk, as the founder of xAI, is […]

Progress Patches Critical MOVEit Automation Bug Enabling Authentication Bypass 2026-05-04 at 21:06 By Progress Software has released updates to address two security flaws in MOVEit Automation, including a critical bug that could result in an authentication bypass. MOVEit Automation (formerly Central) is a secure, server-based managed file transfer (MFT) solution used to schedule and automate […]

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port 2026-05-04 at 19:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s not the fork that’s the problem, it’s the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor […]

The Coming Wave of Large-Scale Al-Enabled Cyberattacks 2026-05-04 at 19:14 By The first truly major AI-enabled cyberattack will look different from the incidents that dominate headlines today. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Is SIEM Trying to Do Too Much? 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Bruce Deakyne The security pitfalls of complexity and how next-gen XDR does it better This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Jessica Lyons ‘If you don’t have visibility, you can’t understand what to protect’ When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory […]

Inside Amazon Web Services’ plan to make networking disappear 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Thomas Claburn The Register gets a look inside AWS’ networking lab in Cupertino FEATURE  In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

Cybersecurity Professionals Sentenced to Prison for Ransomware Attacks 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Two cybersecurity professionals were imprisoned for their role in a string of 2023 ransomware attacks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches. While most teams were still triaging last month’s alerts, attackers had already turned control panels into kill switches, kernels into open doors, and open-source pipelines into silent delivery […]

Instructure, Parent of Canvas, Confirms Data Breach 2026-05-04 at 17:48 By Instructure recently confirmed its data was stolen.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Silver Fox Deploys ABCDoor Malware via Tax-Themed Phishing in India and Russia 2026-05-04 at 16:22 By The China-based cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been linked to a new campaign targeting organizations in Russia and India with a new malware called ABCDoor. The activity involved using phishing emails that mimic correspondence from the Income […]

2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks 2026-05-04 at 16:22 By On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan’s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan’s largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young […]