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The $117.5 million Xfinity settlement is open for claims. Here's how to file before the August 14 deadline. 4 min read Comcast has agreed to pay $117.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a cyberattack that exposed the personal information of approximately 36 million
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French cybersecurity startup White Circle today announced raising $11 million in seed funding from multiple angel investors. Founded in 2025, Paris-based White Circle has built a platform that functions as a control layer for AI, unifying safety, evaluation, and optimization. The AI control platform monitors all AI inputs and outputs
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As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. Fortunately, those very AI tools are also helping businesses fight back. The need for such capabilities has helped Exaforce, an AI startup that detects and thwarts attacks
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US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app' Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns A US commercial bank just tattled on itself to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for plugging a bunch of customer data into an unauthorized AI
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The May 2026 report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group marks a definitive shift in the cybersecurity landscape. While previous assessments categorized AI-assisted cyberattacks as experimental, current data from Mandiant and Gemini telemetry reveals that generative AI is now a mature, industrialized component of offensive operations. The most significant milestone
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* BWH Hotels confirmed a cyberattack on April 22, 2026, stealing customer names, emails, phone numbers, postal addresses, and reservation details * Attackers exploited a flaw in a web app holding guest reservation data, but payment and bank details were not affected * Company took the app offline, engaged external experts, and urged
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* OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, its latest security project * It seeks to rival Anthropic's Mythos in detecting and patching high-severity vulnerabilties * Daybreak will also help companies build software more securely from the start OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, its answer to Anthropic’s Mythos and Project Glasswing, sparking a potential
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Instructure, the maker of the popular school information portal Canvas, said on Tuesday it has “reached an agreement” with the hackers who breached its systems twice, stole a huge amount of student and staff data, and disrupted thousands of schools that rely on the company’s software. ShinyHunters, a financially
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The company that operates online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals. Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said in an online post that it
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* Instructure confirmed paying ShinyHunters to delete stolen data and halt extortion * Agreement included digital “shred logs” and covered all impacted customers * Amount paid undisclosed; law enforcement warns ransom payments fund crime and don’t guarantee safety Instructure has confirmed it paid ShinyHunters their ransomware demand in exchange for deleting the
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AI + ML Think tank warns outsider access to powerful models is governed by patchy controls and a hope nobody dangerous gets in Frontier AI safety testing is becoming a security nightmare of its own, with a new RUSI report warning that the process of granting outsiders access to inspect powerful
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Spotify 20: Party of the Year lets you share listening stats from the day you joined, even if it was 20 years ago. Have your musical tastes changed over the years? In celebration of the company's 20th anniversary, music streaming service Spotify is now allowing people to view
