Former Post Office staff in Horizon replacement bid team
Two former Post Office executives are part of a team at software firm Escher bidding to win the contract to replace the computer system at…
Month: July 2025
‘123456’ password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job applicants
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald’s chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applicants across the…
FBI Seizes Major Sites Sharing Unreleased and Pirated Video Games
The Department of Justice and the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office confirmed today that they have seized and dismantled several notorious online marketplaces distributing pirated video…
Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship
The government has unveiled a $1m fellowship grant, backed by Meta and the Alan Turing Institute, to build technology for public services. The 12-month secondment…
‘123456’ password exposed info for 64 million McDonald’s job applicants
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald’s chatbot job application platform, that exposed the personal information of more than 64 million job applicants across…
Schools using AI to personalise learning, finds Ofsted
Personalisation is just one of the ways education providers are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report from the Office for Standards in…
WordPress Gravity Forms developer hacked to push backdoored plugins
The popular WordPress plugin Gravity Forms has been compromised in what seems a supply-chain attack where manual installers from the official website were infected with…
ACM president Yannis Ioannidis sees a more humane role for AI
The panel brought together academic, industry and policy leaders to discuss how AI can support climate goals, financial inclusion and infrastructure development – particularly in…
Exploits for pre-auth Fortinet FortiWeb RCE flaw released, patch now
Proof-of-concept exploits have been released for a critical SQLi vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb that can be used to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on vulnerable servers.…
MoD supply chain cyber scheme gets up and running
Construction business Morgan Sindall has become the first UK organisation to achieve certification under a new scheme set up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)…
Iranian APT Hackers Targeting Transportation and Manufacturing Sectors in Active Attacks
Nozomi Networks Labs cybersecurity researchers have reported a startling 133% increase in cyberattacks linked to well-known Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) groups in May and…
Iranian APTs Hackers Actively Attacking Transportation and Manufacturing Sectors
Iranian state-sponsored threat actors have intensified their cyberattacks against critical infrastructure in the United States, with a dramatic 133% increase in malicious activity recorded during…