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Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

Why is privacy so hard?

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

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ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen

The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents.

The Adventures of Blink S6e2: The Base Control [NIST 800-53 CM(3)]

Hey friends! Today on The Adventures of Blink, we're going to tackle the base control from NIST...

Someone Spammed My DEV Post. I Traced It to a Wombat.

Illustration generated for this article. Every prop is a finding: the sack of blank name badges is...

4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.

Playing whack-a-mole is losing

Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms

The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.

A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it

The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.

We have a year to fix security everywhere

Huawei copies Samsung’s privacy display in its latest trifold

Huawei has released its third trifold phone in China, and the company has clearly had half an eye on Samsung during development. Not only does the Mate XT 2 adopt the inward-folding form factor used o…

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security