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Delta Air Lines class action cleared for takeoff over CrowdStrike chaos
A federal judge has cleared the runway for a class action from disgruntled passengers against Delta Air Lines as turbulence from last year's CrowdStrike debacle continues to buffet the carrier.…
You'll never guess which mobile browser is the worst for data collection
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the slurpiest mobile browser of them all? The answer, according to VPN vendor Surfshark, is Chrome.…
Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports
Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainers' time.…
New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts
New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a government initiative.…
Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp snoop drama
A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to spy on supposedly secure communications.…
Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower
A now-former manager at Computacenter claims he was unfairly fired after alerting management that a colleague was repeatedly giving his girlfriend unauthorized access to Deutsche Bank's server rooms.…
Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is overhauling its "outdated" software procurement systems, and insists it's putting security at the forefront of decision-making processes.…
CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut
President Trump's dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million - about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its core mission in favor of policing online speech.…
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and used by ousted national security advisor Michael Waltz.…
Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’
US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers
Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump password in favor of passkeys.…
RSAC wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once
RSAC Another RSAC has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to conference organizers. Hopefully, all of us made it home safely, didn't get deported to a Venezuelan prison, and didn't end up bringing home a virus - computer or corona.…
Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America
On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for your troubles.…
Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware
When someone stole more than a terabyte of data from Disney last year, it was believed to be the work of Russian hacktivists protesting for artist rights. We now know it was actually a 25-year-old California resident.…
Generative AI makes fraud fluent – from phishing lures to fake lovers
RSAC Spam messages predate the web itself, and generative AI has given it a fluency upgrade, churning out slick, localized scams and letting crooks hit regions and dialects they used to ignore.…
Three Brits charged over 'active shooter threats' swattings in US, Canada
Three young Brits are accused of stateside swatting offences and will appear in a UK court today to face their charges after a joint investigation by the FBI and Merseyside cops.…
British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack
Globally recognized purveyor of all things luxury Harrods is the third major UK retailer to confirm an attempted cyberattack on its systems in under two weeks.…
Dems look to close the barn door after top DOGE dog has bolted
Elon Musk is backing away from his Trump-blessed government gig, but now House Democrats want to see the permission slip that got him in the door.…
Healthcare group Ascension discloses second cyberattack on patients' data
It's more bad news from Ascension Health which is informing some of its patients, potentially for the second time in the space of a year, that their medical data was compromised during a major cyberattack.…
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