A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online...

CVE-2026-8889

Version 3.0.7 of the Securly Chrome Extension uses deprecated SHA-1 hashing for IWF CSAM URL matching 25,020 hashes and CIPA blocklist matching 12,352 hashes...

STRIKE: A Structured Taxonomy of Cybercrime for Risk, Impact, Knowledge, and Evolution

Cybercrime has grown exponentially in both scale and sophistication, posing significant threats. As attack methods evolve rapidly, traditional classification schemes often fail to capture the complexity and diversity of modern threats. To address this gap, we introduce STRIKE,a Structured Taxonom...

Apple Boosts Security With New iMessage, Apple ID, and iCloud Protections

Apple on Wednesday announced a raft of security measures, including an Advanced Data Protection setting that enables end-to-end encrypted E2EE data backups in its iCloud service. The headlining feature, when turned on, is expected to secure 23 data categories using E2EE, including device and...

Apple Adds a Backdoor to iMessage and iCloud Storage

Apples announcement that its going to start scanning photos for child abuse material is a big deal. Here are five news stories. I have been following the details, and discussing it in several different email lists. I dont have time right now to delve into the details, but wanted to post something...

Mac OS X Trojan Goes Bitcoin Mining, Steals Files

A new Trojan targeting Mac OS X users is not only after data, but Bitcoins as well. The malware is being detected by Sophos as Miner-D, but is also known as DevilRobber. According to Sophos, the Trojan is hiding inside pirated versions of the Mac OS X image editing application GraphicConverter...