The ShinyHunters extortion group stole personal information from 1.6 million RingCentral accounts after hacking the company in July, according to the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

The medical data of transplant patients from across the UK was sent over an unencrypted pager network.

Oil giant Shell has confirmed it is investigating a potential security incident after the Clop ransomware gang claimed it stole 89GB of data.

ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.

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ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”

The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.

A 15.5 GB file of 7.3 million chess.com user records is circulating free on two leak forums. We verified it: the data is genuine and days old, but the shape points to scraping, not a breach.

Google says Chrome's anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026.

Today is Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a massive 400 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.

Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. 

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.

OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation.

The FBI and EPA warned that cyberattacks against internet-facing PLCs have hit water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states, causing operational disruptions like pressure loss, flooding, and manual fallback. The attacks relied on exposed, outdated controllers and weak access controls, highlighting the need for utilities to remove PLCs from the public internet, strengthen passwords, and monitor OT environments continuously. #FBI #EPA #PLC #Aliquippa

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OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.

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New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.

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OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the...

A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.

Meta undercuts AI coding rivals on price, Meta AI model breaches test containment, OpenAI agents built a secret message board, Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, Researchers crack AI browsers, Ransom Ca...

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Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments.

The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content moderation team.

FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...

A cyberattack struck the North Carolina Ports IT system late Tuesday, disrupting operations at all three of the state’s port facilities.

For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.

Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all