Tagged as Security

Security Stop-Press : ChatGPT Health Brings New Data Security Risks

Published 14 January 2026

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space for health and wellness conversations that allows users to link personal health data, raising fresh security and privacy concerns around highly sensitive information. OpenAI says more than 230 million people ask health-related questions on ChatGPT each week, prompting the creation of a […]

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Security-Stop Press : Worst Data Breaches of 2025 Show Cyber Attacks Are About Disruption

Published 31 December 2025

The most serious cyber incidents of 2025 showed a clear move away from data theft towards operational disruption and economic damage. Globally, attackers exploited trusted platforms and supply chains, with US federal systems breached repeatedly and the Clop group stealing sensitive data by abusing an unknown flaw in Oracle E […]

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Security Stop-Press: Scam Ads Reported On YouTube As Fraudsters Exploit Ad Slots

Published 10 December 2025

Users in several countries say they are seeing a rise in misleading adverts on YouTube, including fake government schemes, miracle health claims, inappropriate content and AI-generated promotions that lead to suspicious websites. Many of the ads redirect to imitation news pages or fake portals designed to collect personal information or […]

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Security Stop-Press: WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers

Published 25 November 2025

Researchers 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

Published 19 November 2025

Association 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

Published 12 November 2025

Marks & 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’

Published 7 November 2025

OpenAI 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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