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Banning all children from social media apps has been this week’s headline-grabbing, simple fix to an online world growing more hostile by the day. Too bad that it may not work, after all. Not only is a blanket social media ban incredibly difficult to enforce from a technical standpoint,
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Loading the player… Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter
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As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a sweeping social media ban for under-16s by next spring, speculations have mounted that VPN services may be the next ones on the chopping block. Concerns like these do not happen in a vacuum. In his Monday announcement, Starmer said that more information
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* Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team discloses “AutoJack,” a vulnerability chain in AutoGen Studio enabling RCE via malicious websites * Flaws included localhost channel misuse, skipped login checks, and arbitrary code execution, letting agents run attacker‑supplied programs * Issue existed only in early GitHub builds, fixed before release; highlights need for
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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help
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Artificial intelligence has transformed enterprise cybersecurity into a machine-speed quickdraw contest. Today, threat actors routinely use AI and automation to launch sophisticated, multi-stage campaigns that exploit gaps between disconnected security tools. Once inside a network, modern attacks move laterally across cloud environments, endpoints, and applications within minutes. Because defensive windows
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The UK Government has finally announced its long-rumoured social media ban for under-16s. While the current proposal focuses on social media platforms, lawmakers are also considering restrictions on gaming platforms, streaming services, and, potentially, VPNs. Previously, the Online Safety Act’s age verification requirements led swathes of people to use
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* Paradigm Shift discovered “usbliter8,” a hardware flaw in A12/A13 iPhone and S4/S5 Apple Watch chips allowing jailbreak via USB data handling * Exploitation requires physical access and Raspberry Pi, but enables bypassing iOS restrictions and deep system compromise * Apple cannot patch; only unaffected models (pre‑A12 or A14+) are
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a defining factor in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) market - not only as the service clients want most, but as an operational enabler that MSPs can harness to scale teams, protect margins and deliver better service. Amongst a backdrop of fiercer competition, smaller deals
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AI investment now reaches into power, cooling, packaging, logistics, and automation, because compute capacity relies on systems that keep hardware operating. The constraints affecting data centre build-outs therefore also affect distributed infrastructure, factory systems, labs, warehouses, and field operations – where edge and IoT teams have to connect equipment, gather data,
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Databricks has a new pitch for the AI age of cyberattacks: fight fire with fire. The $134bn data-and-AI company said it will buy Panther Labs, a cybersecurity startup, as it pushes deeper into a market dominated by Splunk and CrowdStrike. It is Databricks’ third security acquisition, a sign of how
