EU’s Chat Control could put government monitoring inside robots
Cybersecurity debates around surveillance usually stay inside screens. A new academic study argues that this boundary no longer holds when communication laws extend into robots…
Month: January 2026
Enshittification is ruining everything online (Lock and Code S07E01)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… There’s a bizarre thing happening online right now where everything is getting worse. Your Google results have…
New ‘Penguin’ Pig Butchering as a Service Selling PII, Stolen Accounts and Fraud Kits
The world of cybercrime has taken a dangerous turn as pig butchering scams now operate as turnkey services, lowering entry barriers for bad actors worldwide.…
New EDRStartupHinder Tool blocks antivirus and EDR services at startup on Windows 11 25H2 Defender
Security researcher TwoSevenOneT, known for EDR evasion tools like EDR-Freeze and EDR-Redir, unveiled EDRStartupHinder this week. The tool blocks antivirus and EDR services at startup…
Cloudflare DNS reply change crashed Cisco SME switches
A mysterious problem impacting users of Cisco small-to-medium business switches whose devices started rebooting regularly turned out to be caused by a change in how…
The Vibe Coding Security Gap
Security researchers are warning that the rapid mainstream adoption of AI-assisted “vibe coding” is introducing new risks into software development pipelines, with insecure code now…
Instagram’s “17 Million User Data Leak” Was Just Scraped Records from 2022 – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
This week has been a chaotic one, especially for Instagram users, after Malwarebytes announced on the 9th of January that it had tracked a data…
California bans data broker reselling health data of millions
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) has taken action against the Datamasters marketing firm that sold the health and personal data of millions of users without…
Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak
Instagram says it fixed a bug that allowed threat actors to mass-request password reset emails, amid claims that data from more than 17 million Instagram…
India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code
India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part of a raft of security measures,…
China is closing in on US technology lead despite constraints
China can narrow its technological gap with the US driven by growing risk-taking and innovation, though the lack of advanced chipmaking tools is hobbling the…
NSW Department of Education schools’ web facelift driving enrolments
The NSW Department of Education says there are early indications that its website modernisation program is driving higher enrolment rates at public schools sporting its…