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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * At-home DNA and health tests may not be covered by HIPAA. * Genetic data can expose you or relatives and create insurance risks. * FDA review and follow-up care vary widely. The kit arrives. It isn'
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* Threat actor reused unrotated GitHub Actions secrets to compromise 73 Microsoft repos * Miasma worm planted across Azure, microsoft, Azure‑Samples, and MicrosoftDocs orgs * Microsoft pulled affected repos, notified impacted customers, and continues investigation GitHub has disabled 73 of Microsoft’s repositories after a threat actor allegedly used credentials stolen a
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Apple’s 2026 WWDC event promised some serious upgrades for Siri, macOS and parental controls. Here at TechRadar our live WWDC 2026 coverage tracked everything the announcement included. If you need to catch up, we've summarized the 17 things we learned during the event. And though we’ll
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* Google patches high‑severity Chrome V8 bug (CVE‑2026‑11645) exploited in the wild * Flaw allows remote code execution via crafted HTML on versions before 149.0.7827.103 * Fixes now live for Windows, Mac, and Linux; users urged to update immediately Google has fixed a high-severity vulnerability in its
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France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, detected a compromise of Tchap on 7 June,
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* Check Point patches critical VPN auth‑bypass flaw (CVE‑2026‑50751) used in ransomware attacks * Zero‑day exploited since early May, with Qilin deploying ransomware in at least one case * Customers urged to apply fixes and mitigations immediately Check Point has declared it fixed a vulnerability in its VPN products
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Humans are a cantankerous bunch. We don’t agree on much. But if there’s one certainty in this world – one North Star we can all get behind – it’s that the AI industry has never been quiet. And it’s been particularly noisy of late. We’ve had Musk
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Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light
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A data breach notice submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s office has named Discord Inc. as the affected company, but the filing includes several details that make the claim difficult to treat as confirmed. The notice, submitted on June 8, 2026, lists Discord Inc. of San Francisco, California, as
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Dive Brief Businesses generally aren’t taking a proactive enough approach to blocking schemes that spoof their leaders’ identities, according to a new report. Published June 9, 2026 First published on Dive Brief: * The cybersecurity industry devotes a lot of attention to how AI helps hackers analyze vulnerabilities more quickly
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AI is disruptive. Anthropic’s ClaudeMythos model, and its successors, promise to be even more disruptive: they could threaten the existing bug bounty and/or in-house offensive security industries. AI has been widely adopted by both cybersecurity attackers and defenders. Attackers use it to help find bugs and craft attacks
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As attention remains focused on generative AI and productivity tools, a more urgent question is emerging across financial services and the wider technology sector which is can cybersecurity realistically keep pace with machine-speed threats? Recent discussion around Anthropic’s “Mythos” system has intensified these concerns, with cybersecurity specialists warning about
