Meta Faces First Ofcom Probe Under Online Safety Act Over Instagram Instants
Ofcom is investigating whether Meta launched Instagram’s disappearing-photo feature without completing the safety assessments required under UK law. The UK...
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AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed
Thirteen thousand internal screenshots from 343 technology companies are sitting in public GitHub repositories because a coding agent could not...
Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida
Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida St. Lucie County in Florida discovered (alt link) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it...
Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform
Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars...
Anthropic Declines Australian AI Hearing as OpenAI Agent Breach Faces Scrutiny
Anthropic is sitting out an Australian Senate hearing this week as lawmakers intensify scrutiny of AI companies following an OpenAI...
Attackers Target Unpatched Roundcube Servers With CVE-2026-48842
Roundcube patched a high-severity vulnerability four months ago. Attackers are now targeting systems that still have not installed the fix....
Discord Wants to Estimate Your Age Without Asking for ID
Discord is moving age checks into the background. The platform began rolling out a new age-assurance system this week that...
Smashing Security podcast #486: Vibe-coded shops, and hackable Flock cameras
A store in Auckland vibe-coded itself a new website. Within hours, its inventory had somehow expanded to include a pair...
Protect the person, not just the network
We spend enormous amounts of money protecting the networks around our most important people. Then, at the end of the...
Google Fined €403 Million Over Location Data Practices
Google Fined €403 Million Over Location Data Practices Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2026 Ireland’s DPC fined Google €403 million over...
Hackers Are Using Passkey Updates as a New Microsoft Phishing Hook
A security feature meant to make Microsoft accounts harder to hijack is becoming the bait attackers use to trick employees...
UAE Cyber Chief Says Country Faced 640,000 Cyberattacks in One Day
The UAE faced 640,000 cyberattacks in a single day, according to the country’s cybersecurity chief, underscoring the scale of threats...
Hackers Crack Flock Camera, Expose 1.6M Images in 21 Days
One Flock camera generated 1.6 million images over 21 days, and hackers discovered just how much data it was storing....
‘Nudify’ apps: What to do if someone makes a fake nude of you
Whether you’re a victim, the parent of a victim, or just concerned, here’s what you can do about fake nude...
Google Opens Google Home to Claude and Other AI Agents — Here’s What They Can Control
The smart home is becoming another place where AI agents can act, not just answer questions. Google began rolling out...
