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* Nine out of the top 10 messaging apps offer end-to-end encryption, but 90% now feature AI tools that could expose your private data. * Signal ranks as the most private messaging app, utilizing quantum-secure cryptography and collecting only your phone number. * Meta’s Messenger and LINE rank among the worst offenders
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Ensuring “secure and accountable” AI use in the Pentagon Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced a bill on Tuesday to regulate the Pentagon’s uses of AI, particularly when it comes to its potential deployment for domestic surveillance, nuclear weapons and autonomous weaponry purposes. As Defense One reported earlier this
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A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by foreign governments and then covering up the breaches. In a lawsuit unsealed this week but filed in 2020, William Barlow, who was IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019,
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* FBI launches “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list * Initiative backed by Trump administration and VP Vance * Top suspects include Rodney Dean Allen and Christopher W. Burns In the United States, Fraud has gotten so big that it earned the attention of the FBI. Earlier this week, the Bureau launched the Most Wanted
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) questions U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as he testifies during a Senate Committee on Finance hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 03, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW June 5, 2026 04:02 PM
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On 1 June 2026, experts from multiple cybersecurity firms found a major supply chain compromise affecting software components used by Red Hat. Security firms Microsoft, Wiz Research, Snyk, and Aikido reported that hackers sneaked harmful code into software packages under the @redhat-cloud-services name on npm, which is a public library
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* A cybersecurity researcher has discovered a major vulnerability in a popular PC speaker * The Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X speakers can reportedly be used to hack users' PCs via Bluetooth * Creative won't provide a patch as it's not viewed as a vulnerability, but a temporary
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* ShinyHunters leaked 234GB of DentaQuest data * Records include 2.6M accounts with sensitive details * Company confirms incident but operations remain unaffected DentaQuest, one of the biggest dental benefits administrators in the United States, confirmed a recent cyberattack but said it did not disrupt its day-to-day operations. Earlier this month, infamous
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* Attackers abuse Stripe API via Google Tag Manager * Malware skims checkout data from compromised Magento sites * Stolen card details exfiltrated through api.stripe.com Cybercriminals have turned Stripe into a malware hosting platform, in a new attack that steals people’s payment information from online shoppers. This is according to
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Atlas Menu, a widely used cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike 2, was hacked during May 2026, and reportedly, hackers managed to sneak into the company’s private computer servers and steal a massive file full of customer records. The data breach was confirmed and verified on
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A ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes sending fake IT workers in person to the victims’ offices, where the imposters steal data directly from the victims’ computers using USB drives or help other gang members connect to the computers remotely, according to Google and the
