Japan To Train 50,000 Cybersecurity Experts By 2030
The Japanese government has set an ambitious target to increase the number of cybersecurity experts to 50,000 by 2030. This initiative aims to address the pressing…
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BitLocker Encryption Bypassed in Minutes Using Bitpixie Vulnerability
A critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s BitLocker full disk encryption, demonstrating that it can be bypassed in under five minutes using a software-only attack dubbed “Bitpixie”…
Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2025-4664) Actively Exploited in The Wild
Google has rolled out a fresh Stable Channel update for the Chrome browser across desktop platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update elevates Chrome…
How 300,000+ hard drives performed in the real world
Cloud storage company Backblaze has released its Q1 2025 hard drive reliability report, which provides insights into the performance and failure rates of various HDD…
New Chrome Vulnerability Enables Cross-Origin Data Leak via Loader Referrer Policy
May 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Web Security Google on Wednesday released updates to address four security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one…
Developer Leaks API Key for Private Tesla, SpaceX LLMs — API Security
In AI, as with so many advancing technologies, security often lags innovation. The xAI incident, during which a sensitive API key remained exposed for nearly…
New Weaponized PyPI Package Attacking Developers to Steal Source Code
A newly discovered malicious Python package, solana-token, has been weaponized to steal source code and sensitive secrets from developers working on Solana blockchain applications. Uploaded…
Google warns of US retail cyber attacks and M & S insurance payout to cost £100m
Google Issues Warning to U.S. Retailers About the Growing Threat of Scattered Spider Cyberattacks Google’s Threat Intelligence team has issued an urgent warning for U.S.…
Building cybersecurity culture in science-driven organizations
In this Help Net Security interview, Anne Sofie Roed Rasmussen, CISO at Novonesis, discusses how a science-driven organization approaches cybersecurity, aligning innovation with protection, measuring…
New blockchain security standards target safer ecosystems
The Blockchain Security Standards Council (BSSC) launched its first four security standards, marking a significant milestone in the journey towards a more secure and trustworthy…
Authorities Arrested 17 Criminal Bankers, EUR 4.5 Million Seized
Europol announced on May 14 that law enforcement agencies have dismantled a sophisticated criminal parallel banking network operating across multiple European countries. The operation, conducted…
How Kim Crawley challenges big tech in “Digital Safety in a Dangerous World”
In this Help Net Security interview, Kim Crawley, cybersecurity expert and Professor at the Open Institute of Technology, discusses her upcoming book Digital Safety in…