Security
Security Stop-Press: Shadow AI Breaches Expected To Hit 40 Percent Of Enterprises By 2030
4 December 2025Gartner says 40 percent of enterprises will face a shadow AI related breach by 2030 as unapproved and unmanaged AI tools continue to spread across workplaces. Shadow AI covers any AI system or workflow used without formal oversight, such as employees putting company data into public models or teams deploying […]
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Security Stop-Press: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers
25 November 2025Researchers have uncovered a privacy weakness in WhatsApp that allowed the confirmation of 3.5 billion active accounts simply by checking phone numbers. A team from the University of Vienna and SBA Research found that WhatsApp’s contact discovery system could be queried at high speed, letting them generate and test 63 […]
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Security Stop-Press: Cyber Insurance Payouts Triple
19 November 2025Association of British Insurers (ABI) figures show that cyber insurance payouts in the UK have tripled, reaching £197 million in 2024 as businesses face increasingly costly cyber-attacks, particularly from ransomware and malware. The number of cyber insurance policies has also risen, with 17 per cent more businesses taking out coverage […]
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Security Stop-Press: Cyber Attack Almost Wipes Out M&S Profits
12 November 2025Marks & Spencer has confirmed that a major cyber attack in April 2025 almost wiped out its half-year profits, cutting statutory profit before tax by 99 per cent, from £391.9 million to just £3.4 million. The retailer said the incident, linked to the DragonForce ransomware group and the Scattered Spider […]
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Security Stop-Press: New AI Security Researcher ‘Aardvark’
7 November 2025OpenAI has introduced Aardvark, an autonomous security agent powered by GPT-5 that scans codebases to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark continuously analyses repositories, monitors commits, and tests code in sandboxed environments to validate real-world exploitability. It then proposes […]
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