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Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Liam Proven Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit  Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and […]

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Tim Anderson Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan Developers using Google’s Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that the company is evolving

NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag 2026-03-12 at 17:37 By Richard Speed Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury NASA’s Van Allen Probe A has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere eight years earlier than expected, with a 1 in 4,200 chance

ThreatsDay Bulletin: OAuth Trap, EDR Killer, Signal Phishing, Zombie ZIP, AI Platform Hack & More 2026-03-12 at 17:36 By Another Thursday, another pile of weird security stuff that somehow happened in just seven days. Some of it is clever. Some of it is lazy. A few bits fall into that uncomfortable category of “yeah… this

How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs 2026-03-12 at 17:36 By Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional

Post-Quantum Security Starts at the Edge 2026-03-12 at 15:46 By Bob Blair We can’t put off preparing for tomorrow’s threats—and with Symantec Secure Web Gateway (SWG), we don’t have to This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator 2026-03-12 at 15:46 By Richard Speed All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you’re going Bork!Bork!Bork!  Smart mirrors are all the rage. However, rather than a list of headlines and tasks to do today, an unhappy Windows installation can make a smart mirror seem very dumb

Attackers Don’t Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC’s Workload 2026-03-12 at 15:45 By The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to

Apple Issues Security Updates for Older iOS Devices Targeted by Coruna WebKit Exploit 2026-03-12 at 15:45 By Apple on Wednesday backported fixes for a security flaw in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sonoma to older versions after it was found to be used as part of the Coruna exploit kit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43010, relates

CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild 2026-03-12 at 15:34 By Connor Jones No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that hackers are exploiting a max-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in workflow automation platform n8n.… This

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google’s fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge 2026-03-12 at 15:22 By Dan Robinson Alphabet to remain ‘significant minority shareholder’ Alphabet is spinning out its US Google Fiber business and combining it with Astound Broadband as part of a joint venture with private equity investor Stonepeak.… This article is an

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration 2026-03-12 at 15:14 By Lindsay Clark US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract Medical and legal rights campaigners are warning that the Palantir data platform, designed to be at

Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions 2026-03-12 at 13:50 By Connor Jones Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own Updated  Customers of three major UK banks woke on Thursday to find incorrect transactions appearing in their apps, a problem later attributed to a technical glitch.…

Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying 2026-03-12 at 11:48 By Paul Kunert Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs The UK’s Department for Transport is offering up to £100,000 over three years for access to a C++ programmer who can keep a module of its

Six Android Malware Families Target Pix Payments, Banking Apps, and Crypto Wallets 2026-03-12 at 11:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered half-a-dozen new Android malware families that come with capabilities to steal data from compromised devices and conduct financial fraud. The Android malware range from traditional banking trojans like PixRevolution, TaxiSpy RAT, BeatBanker, Mirax, and Oblivion

Cracking Cyber’s Talent Gap Challenge 2026-03-12 at 10:29 By Solving the cybersecurity workforce challenge requires a shift in perspective.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 2026-03-12 at 08:35 By Simon Sharwood Out of the Copilot and into the fire Please let there be ‘Xbork’ as this appears in all the wrong places Organizations that rely on consumer-grade PCs or allow staff to bring their own devices to work, have something new to worry

CISA Flags Actively Exploited n8n RCE Bug as 24,700 Instances Remain Exposed 2026-03-12 at 08:34 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), concerns

China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds 2026-03-12 at 07:07 By Simon Sharwood Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content – which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team has warned locals that the OpenClaw agentic AI tool poses significant security risks.… This

Meta reveals four custom AI chips, claims they outperform commercial silicon 2026-03-12 at 06:49 By Simon Sharwood Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t be flag obvious AI slop Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register