Your Saturday intelligence
Maine has taken its public data breach reporting portal offline after fraudulent breach disclosures were published on the state's website, prompting a review of procedures to prevent abuse in the future. [...]
Read →Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer s
Read →Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans. The network is said to be behind t
Read →A 10-year-old authentication bypass vulnerability discovered in the phpBB forum software allows an attacker to log in as any user, including administrators. [...]
Read →SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He has more wealth, on paper at least, than th
Read →Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup will work toward developing an "artificial general engineer," according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. The startup, called Prometheus, aims to develop AI-powered engineering to
Read →On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame, Valve's n
Read →If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC. As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X that the RAM shorta
Read →Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk's actions directly
Read →A prominent cybersecurity firm has warned that South Africa's national grid faces an increased risk of cyberattacks due to more private sector participation and smart meter rollouts.
Read →South Africans planning to place bets on FIFA World Cup games in 2026 should beware of fake online betting sites and apps amid a global scam campaign.
Read →AVBOB general manager for corporate affairs Adrian Bester could not confirm whether the recent cybersecurity incident it suffered was a ransomware attack or a data breach.
Read →Scammers in South Africa are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create highly convincing fake recruitment campaigns to steal personal data from job seekers, often offering jobs for people without a matric.
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