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6:49 AM PDT · May 6, 2026 Some age verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based nonprofit Internet Matters surveyed a thousand children about
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Unsanctioned users have allegedly accessed Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model although the company has limited the businesses that can use it. The group, who have yet to be named, had apparently made many attempts to access Mythos since it debuted earlier this month. They finally gained
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Anthropic Mythos platform has sparked a new round of debate over a classic cybersecurity question – except at an entirely new level: What will happen as the systems used to discover and exploit vulnerabilities gain the ability to do so at the speed of machines? In conjunction with projects such as
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When the Iran conflict escalated the way it did, most businesses had no playbook for it. The disruption didn’t stay in the region. It showed up in energy supplies, financial systems, hospitals, and communication networks, touching organisations that had simply been going about their day. No warning, no preparation,
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Most enterprise security teams can tell you exactly how their databases are encrypted. They know who has access to their CRM and can pull audit logs for every sensitive document that’s been opened, copied, or shared in the last 90 days. Ask those same teams what’s happening with
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added another Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-31431, also known as Copy Fail, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs). Inclusion in the list implies active real-world attacks and increases the priority of patches. This particular vulnerability, which has been affecting almost all major Linux
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Iranian cyber operations have gone from being disruptive single events to ongoing campaigns against governments, infrastructure providers, technology companies, and research organizations. Their ability to operate inside the same tools and infrastructure that defenders rely on makes these intrusions difficult to detect. The stakes extend well beyond espionage. For example,
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There are discussions in US cybersecurity circles to radically shorten the time given to government agencies to fix software vulnerabilities currently being exploited, especially amid concerns about the growing use of artificial intelligence-based attacks. According to a report by Reuters, there are talks of reducing the time frame from the
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Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning, posting as @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N, has revealed that Microsoft Edge decrypts every saved password at startup and holds all of them in process memory, in cleartext, for the entire browser session. He says this includes passwords for sites the user is visiting as well as every
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* Fresh analysis shows the April 2026 Vimeo incident exposed emails and names of about 119,000 users * ShinyHunters leaked 106GB of stolen documents after failed ransom negotiations * While the data is limited, victims face heightened phishing and identity fraud risks The Vimeo data breach which took place in April 2026
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Cybersecurity entered 2026 under pressure to keep pace with the rapid deployment of AI technologies while laying the foundations for a quantum future. Security leaders are expected to defend increasingly complex AI and hybrid environments while facing persistent talent shortages, a fast-changing threat landscape and mounting operational pressure. Latest Videos
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The Iran-linked APT actor MuddyWater has been observed performing an intrusion masquerading as a ransomware attack, Rapid7 reports. As part of the intrusion observed in early 2026, the attackers relied on social engineering for initial access and performed operations typically associated with espionage campaigns, including reconnaissance, credential harvesting, and data
