TalkTalk undoes customer experience stack complexity to boost contact centre agents
TalkTalk chief operations officer (COO) Neil Smith comes from a deep engineering background in telecoms. He has been at the company for seven years, and…
Month: October 2025
Earn $30K To Hack Gemini AI
Google has unveiled a new AI Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP), offering payouts of up to $30,000 for researchers who successfully identify and report security flaws…
ASCII Smuggling Attack Lets Hackers Manipulate Gemini to Deliver Smuggled Data to Users
In September 2025, FireTail researcher Viktor Markopoulos set out to test leading large language models (LLMs) for resilience against the long-standing ASCII Smuggling technique. By…
AWS Client VPN for macOS Hit by Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released bulletin AWS-2025-020 detailing a serious flaw in the macOS version of its Client VPN software. The issue, tracked as CVE-2025-11462,…
OpenAI Finds Growing Exploitation of AI Tools by Foreign Threat Groups
OpenAI’s latest “Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI” report shows that hackers and influence operators are moving toward a more organised use of artificial intelligence (AI).…
Interview: Change management for digitisation and agentic AI
People often talk about going digital and digitisation initiatives, but technology is only half the story. As Thomas Bodé, chief digital transformation officer at European…
North Korean Hackers Have Stolen $2 Billion in Cryptocurrency in 2025
North Korean threat actors are estimated to have stolen more than $2 billion in cryptocurrency during the first nine months of 2025, blockchain analysis firm…
PoC Exploit Released for Critical Lua Engine Vulnerabilities
Three newly disclosed vulnerabilities have been identified in the Lua scripting engine of Redis 7.4.5, each presenting severe risks of remote code execution and privilege…
ASCII Smuggling Attack in Gemini Tricks AI Agents into Revealing Smuggled Data
Enterprise AI assistants face a hidden menace when invisible control characters are used to smuggle malicious instructions into prompts. In September 2025, FireTail researcher Viktor Markopoulos…
IT Sustainability Think Tank: Don’t believe Big Tech’s green IT hype
When I first started in IT asset disposition more than two decades ago, sustainability barely registered in boardroom discussions. Regulations such as the WEEE Directive…
Radiflow Unveils New OT Security Platform
Industrial cybersecurity firm Radiflow has unveiled a new platform for mid-sized enterprises. The new platform, named Radiflow360, leverages AI to provide enhanced visibility, risk management,…
Redis patches 13-Year-Old Lua flaw enabling Remote Code Execution
Redis patches 13-Year-Old Lua flaw enabling Remote Code Execution Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2025 Redis warns of CVE-2025-49844, a Lua script flaw enabling RCE via…