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Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google Fast Pair, dubbed WhisperPair, that leaves affected accessories open to being fully controlled by an attacker.
By offering discounts to current users, Windscribe wants you to invest your money into specialists, not bundled ecosystems.
Security research and consulting firm Trail of Bits analyzed agentic AI in browsers and found vulnerabilites that resemble cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
Funded by private equity firm AFINUM Management since 2020, Threema has agreed to a secondary buyout from Comitis Capital.
Mention of the long-awaited RCS end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support in the iOS 26.3 beta was spotted by Tiion-X83 on X via a carrier bundle setting that would let carriers enable E2EE for RCS messaging.
Instagram users were sent password reset emails recently that they didn’t request, but Instagram says there was no breach of their system.
From cryptocurrency to healthcare, 2026 seems set to bring us more of the same breaches.
Logitech’s G HUB and Logi Options+ software stopped working, leaving users who relied on it for managing their mice and keyboards high and dry.
Illustrating the importance of threat models
Telegram has added support for passkeys, a secure and convenient sign-in method, replacing SMS verification codes.
Gnu Privacy Guard, a popular implementation of the OpenPGP standard, was found to have multiple vulnerabilities including modifying the plaintext shown to the user and modifying files on the user’s system.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has launched their new standard for secure, interoperable smart locks called Aliro.
WIRED, crypto, and 2026's first candidate for "cascading data breach"
AI data centers are running up against the physical limits of copper for transmitting data, so radio is being considered as a replacement.
The Aflac breach affected 22.6 million customers. And this was a slow week.
Following multiple outages, Cloudflare outlines their plan to improve resilience of their network, titled “Code Orange: Fail Small.”
The Linux Foundation announced the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation to standardize and support an open, collaborative ecosystem for agentic AI.
The Texas Attorney General has launched a lawsuit against five major smart TV manufacturers - Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL - over their use of Automated Content Recognition, or ACR.
Bunq, a Dutch neobank that’s been growing in popularity in recent years, has started sharing users’ investments with others on their contacts list, according to RTL.
Data breaches at Hama Film, Home Depot, 700Credit, PornHub, Askul, SoundCloud, University of Sydney, plus an update on last week's Coupang data breach.
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