A hacker’s arrest just revealed how Microsoft can track your Windows device

‘It’s whack-a-mole’: how Europe’s smart border melted down

Automated system first mooted in 2008 was meant to keep out criminals — instead, it is delaying travellers

Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit network faces legal questions amid federal investigation

When Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that federal investigators were targeting his wife as retaliation for his battles with the Trump administration, he offered a familiar defense: Cast the powerful as victims and hope no one looks too closely behind the curtain. His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom — who uses the title “First Partner” — was []...Click to read more

The Malware Excuse Behind Amazon’s Locked-Down Fire Sticks

The company that floods your home screen with tracking ads now blocks the apps built to hide them, all in the name of your safety. The post The Malware Excuse Behind Amazon’s Locked-Down Fire Sticks appeared first on Reclaim The Net: Free Speech, Privacy, Digital Rights.

The Supreme Court Finally Draws a Line on Digital Surveillance

For years, I have warned that technology would become the government’s greatest surveillance tool. Politicians always promise new powers will only be used against criminals. Then those same powers gradually expand until everyone becomes a potential suspect. History never changes because governments never voluntarily surrender authority once they obtain it. The U.S. Supreme Court has []

Sistem pemprofilan bantu banteras pemandu, syarikat kenderaan perdagangan terlibat dadah 

KUALA LUMPUR: Satu sistem pemprofilan membabitkan individu, syarikat dan kenderaan perdagangan sedang dibangunkan Jabatan Siasatan dan Penguatkuasaan Trafik (JSPT) Bukit Aman bagi menangani isu pemandu di bawah pengaruh dadah atau alkohol. Pengarah JSPT Bukit Aman, Datuk Seri Muhammed Hasbullah Ali berkata, langkah itu antara usaha bagi memastikan pemantauan terhadap pemandu serta syarikat pengangkutan dapat dibuat ... Read more The post Sistem pemprofilan bantu banteras pemandu, syarikat kenderaan perdagangan terlibat dadah appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

झापाका दुई डीएसपीसहित ११ प्रहरीविरुद्ध अनुसन्धान, मोबाइल नियन्त्रणमा

विराटनगर। झापाको काँकडभिट्टा नाकामा भइरहेको तस्करीमा सुरक्षाकर्मीकै मिलेमतो रहेको आरोप लागेपछि दुई जना प्रहरी नायब उपरीक्षक (डीएसपी) सहित ११ जना सुरक्षाकर्मीविरुद्ध उच्चस्तरीय अनुसन्धान सुरु भएको छ। गृहमन्त्री सुधन गुरुङको स्थलगत निरीक्षणका क्रममा स्थानीयले तस्करीको ‘लाइन’ बारे सूचना दिएपछि इलाका प्रहरी कार्यालय काँकडभिट्टाका डीएसपी निशेष चापागाईं र सशस्त्र प्रहरी बल (बीओपी) काँकडभिट्टाका डीएसपी विकास थापा अनुसन्धानको []

World : Personal Data Of 70,000 People In Singapore Breached In IBM-managed Cloud Environment

ISTANBUL, July 3 (Bernama-Anadolu) -- The personal data of about 70,000 people in Singapore was exposed in a cybersecurity incident involving an IBM-managed cloud environment, the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) said Friday.

Cyberattack on Hong Kong’s Shun Hing Group affects data of 1 million people

A cyberattack on leading Hong Kong appliance distributor Shun Hing Group has compromised the personal information of more than 1 million people, according to the city’s privacy watchdog. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into the incident after receiving a data breach report from Shun Hing Group on March 23. The latest information provided by the company suggested that the personal data of as many as 1.05 million...

Amadey and StealC Malware Network Disrupted, 27M Stolen Credentials Recovered

A coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC. The main common goal was to disrupt the 'assembly lines' cybercriminals use to launch ransomware, financial fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure, Europol said in

Tony Burke savaged after 12 asylum seekers spotted at Queensland pub

Shadow Defence Industry Minister Phillip Thompson blames Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke for a major border security failure after detained Chinese asylum seekers were seen at a Far North Queensland pub. “It just simply shouldn’t be possible,” Mr Thompson told Sky News host Jaimee Rogers. “It’s clear that Tony Burke has taken his eye off Operation Sovereign Borders and the security of our borders and our sea and our nation. “When they cut 20 per cent out of our sovereign borders… it was a green light to people smugglers; we’ve seen people smugglers try and get to Australia, and now we’ve seen them at a pub. “I think it’s an absolute failure.”

Surveillance of Americans by big data

Surveillance of Americans by big data

Secret Service didn't secure mobile devices, putting leaders at risk, says report

The Secret Service left themselves vulnerable to hacking due to issues with both official and personal devices, a government watchdog found in a report ordered after the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life in Butler, Pa. The report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that agents...

Detain, Search, Use Force: Act’s big security guard overhaul

Detain, Search, Use Force: Act’s big security guard overhaul

Alleged coup plot: DSS grills VeryDarkMan

The Department of State Services, DSS, has grilled popular social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, over a leaked video connected to the ongoing coup plot trial. The development followed an order by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja, who demanded a probe into how the restricted footage [] Alleged coup plot: DSS grills VeryDarkMan

Gizmodo readers hit with ClickFix malware prompts after account compromise

Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly

Kindia : Une fouille à la maison d’arrêt permet la saisie d’objets prohibés, le procureur tire la sonnette d’alarme

Les autorités judiciaires renforcent la surveillance au sein de la maison d’arrêt de Kindia. Le procureur de la République près le Tribunal de première instance (TPI) de Kindia, Mamadou Bhoye Diallo, a conduit, ce jeudi 9 juillet 2026, une vaste opération de fouille dans l’établissement pénitentiaire, avec l’appui des forces de défense et de sécurité. []

New Report: Growing Partnership Between Surveillance Tech And ICE

Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. DHS doesn’t just buy surveillance tech, but also helps create it through a billion-dollar research incubator. A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures []

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware

A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.

What the federal probe of Newsom and the first partner means for his presidential ambitions

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Last week Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed in a video and a social media post that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating him and his wife, framing it as a political attack by President Donald Trump. “Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me []

Lawsuit accuses AI security company of publishing hallucinated findings

MeetingTV, an online videoconferencing and webinar startup, is suing Palo Alto Networks and recently acquired threat-intelligence firm Koi Security over a security research report that linked its infrastructure to a Chinese hacking operation. Why it matters: MeetingTV alleges that a hallucinated finding is behind the mix-up — raising questions about how companies are using AI in threat intelligence and who bears responsibility for the impact of security research...

Darknet Heroin Ring Smashed After Shipping Kilogram Bricks Between Georgia And Florida

Federal authorities have dismantled a multi-state drug trafficking organization that allegedly utilized the Darknet to ship kilogram quantities of heroin across the Southeast, resulting in federal charges for two men. Eric Turner, 30, of Lizella, Georgia, and Jose Smith, 29, of Valrico, Florida, are charged in a federal indictment with conspiracy to possess with intent [] Darknet Heroin Ring Smashed After Shipping Kilogram Bricks Between Georgia And Florida

U.S. intel located video proving coronavirus research in China, even as Fauci continued to deny

Newly declassified documents show the Intelligence Community had circulated a video of a U.S. government grantee describing experiments in China to manipulate coronaviruses to predict human transmission.

Govt tables Cybercrime Bill in Parliament to replace outdated computer crimes law, cover AI offences

KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — The Cybercrime Bill 2026, which seeks to repeal the Computer Crimes Act 1997 (Act 563), wa...

Scammers Are 'Dangling the One Thing' PC Gamers Won't Get Anytime Soon: GTA 6

GTA 6 malware and scams are on the rise, and they’re targeting PC and Android users because Rockstar is skipping those platforms for the game’s launch.

Russia Accuses Apple of Political Motives After Several Popular Apps Vanish From App Store

Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has described Apple's removal of VK Holding applications from the App Store as a politically motivated decision, arguing that the US-based technology giant failed to provide a valid legal basis for the action. According to the ministry, Apple has not presented any substantiated explanation linking the affected applications to sanctions restrictions. Officials stated that legal assessments, including reviews conducted by American law firms, found no grounds that would justify blocking VK services. The ministry also accused Apple of ignoring the social importance of the removed applications, many of which provide communication tools and public information services used by millions of people.

Here’s How to Check If Windows 11 Is Secretly Gobbling Up Your Disk Space

...and how to ask it nicely to stop doing so.

Explosive WhatsApps expose alleged plot to rig SAPS tenders

What­s­App messages between sus­pen­ded crime intel­li­gence boss Maj-Gen Feroz Khan and con­tro­ver­sial cigar­ettes boss Mohammad Sayed show how they allegedly conspired to manip­u­late pro­cure­ment in SAPS for their mutual bene­fit

PARLIAMENT | Govt mulls allowing MPs to view CCTV footage of Taiping Prison incident

What's going on in Parliament today.

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.

Masked man smashes main entrance to Haaretz Tel Aviv offices overnight

Security footage showed the suspect hurling two bricks through the newspaper's front door before fleeing; the attack comes three days after a similar incident at Channel 12's Tel Aviv offices

OpenAI’s latest AI model likely has similar cyber vulnerabilities to one that led to U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable, British agency says

U.K. AI agency found 'universal jailbreaks' that unlocked dangerous cyber capabilities in OpenAI's GPT-5.6

Taiwan Investigates Suspected Smuggling of Nvidia AI Servers to China

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating a case involving the illegal smuggling of high-end AI servers equipped with Nvidia chips to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, the Taipei Times reported. As part of the investigation, a special task force searched the Taiwan Asia-Pacific headquarters of Supermicro, as well as Aaeon Technology and Chief Telecom, and questioned six []