DeepSeek Federal Ban: DHS Order Also Covers Apps Built on Its Models
The order, signed by Secretary Markwayne Mullin on June 26 and published Oct. 20, reaches third-party products built on DeepSeek. It says…
Privacy & Security
Breaches, zero-days, state hackers and the privacy tradeoffs baked into new tech. We name the files, do the math on the fines, and explain what each incident means for the people whose data was in it.
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October 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record 1,400+ Fixes and What to Patch First
Microsoft's Oct. 13 release patches an exploited Windows Shell zero-day, critical Exchange and Active Directory bugs, and ships KB5127648, the last update…
Ledger Wallet Implant: What to Do If You Bought From a Reseller
Ledger says every confirmed draining case traces to one Southeast Asian reseller, an official one. Its Genuine Check can't see the implant…
Stop & Shop, Giant, Food Lion Sites Down in Ahold Delhaize Cyber Incident
Stores and pharmacies are open, but apps, pickup and delivery are offline, online orders are being refunded, and the parent company won't…
Double Counter Discord Breach: What to Do If Your IP Address Leaked
An anti-alt bot used in more than 600,000 Discord communities exposed data on about 28 million accounts, including IP addresses with city…
FBI Seizes Flax Typhoon Hacking Tools as Canada and UK Join China Warning
Prosecutors say Beijing-based Integrity Tech ran the Microscan scanner and FishHub phishing platform for state hackers. Ten agencies from seven countries, including…
ASOS Data Breach: What Hackers Took via Its App Alert, and What to Do
ASOS says a hacker tricked an employee to reach customers' names and contact details, but not cards or passwords. A sample sent…
Anthropic Widens Mythos Access as Glasswing’s 129,000 Bugs Await Fixes
Anthropic's new three-tier Cyber Verification Program gives vetted teams Claude Mythos 5.1 with fewer safeguards. Its own test shows the Red Team…
Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Edited Its Wikis and Strained Wikidata
The foundation ties OpenAI-operated agents to unapproved sandbox edits, a tampered citation tool and millions of API requests that may have fed…
Passkeys, Explained: Ditch Your Passwords and Set Them Up Everywhere
AI-written phishing now fools people 4.5 times as often as the old kind, per Microsoft. Passkeys can't be typed into a fake…