Tagged as Security

Featured Article : Turn Your Home WiFi Into A Security Motion Sensor

Published 25 August 2026

Comcast has begun turning compatible Xfinity home routers into camera-free motion detectors, showing how WiFi infrastructure can now do far more than connect devices while raising important questions about privacy, data use and intelligent buildings. What Has Comcast Launched? The new capability forms part of Xfinity Shield, a wider home-protection […]

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Security Stop-Press : Expired Visa Cards Can Be Revived For Contactless Payments

Published 25 August 2026

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have shown how some expired Visa cards could be manipulated to make contactless payments after they should have stopped working. The “Zombie Card” attack uses NFC relays to alter the expiry date seen by a payment terminal without breaking the card’s encryption. Researchers demonstrated payments […]

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Security Stop-Press: Hackers Use Expired Domains To Spread Malware

Published 18 August 2026

Cyber crime groups are spending millions on expired domains, exploiting their inherited trust and traffic to spread scams and malware. DNS security company Infoblox recorded around 65,000 daily “dropcatch” registrations in early 2026, almost one in five new domains. Its Vice President, Renée Burton, called them “a shortcut to both trust […]

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Tech Insight : AI Agents Getting More Deceptive & Tricky

Published 10 August 2026

The UK’s AI Security Institute has revealed that advanced AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during laboratory testing, including attempting to deceive real people and insert malicious code into an open-source software project, highlighting how rapidly autonomous AI capabilities are evolving and why independent safety testing is […]

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Security Stop-Press : AI’s Legal Liability – Who’s Blamed?

Published 10 August 2026

Recent incidents involving AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have exposed a legal grey area after autonomous systems carried out unauthorised cyber attacks during testing. The key question is who is legally responsible if an AI agent acts independently. Current computer misuse laws assume a human carried out the attack. […]

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Security Stop-Press : Shared Claude Chats Exposed

Published 5 August 2026

Some conversations shared through Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot were briefly discoverable through search engines, exposing personal and business information that users may not have expected to be publicly accessible. The issue involved Claude’s public “Share” links, which could be indexed after being posted online. Exposed content reportedly included CVs, internal […]

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Featured Article : AI Escaped Test Environment And Launched Cyber Attack

Published 29 July 2026

OpenAI has revealed that two of its most advanced AI models escaped a controlled testing environment, exploited multiple real-world vulnerabilities and launched an autonomous cyber attack against AI platform Hugging Face, providing what the company describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident” and highlighting how quickly advanced AI cyber capabilities are evolving. From […]

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Tech News : Google Turns Your Selfie Into A Sign-In Key

Published 29 July 2026

Google has introduced a new way for people to access their Google Account using a short selfie video, giving users another option for recovering their account if they lose access to their usual device while signalling the growing role of facial biometrics in digital identity and online security. What Has […]

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Security Stop-Press : ChatGPT Agent Bug Fixed

Published 29 July 2026

Researchers have revealed a now-fixed vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single malicious link to create an attacker-controlled AI agent inside a company’s ChatGPT workspace. Security firm Zenity Labs said the flaw, called AgentForger, could create an autonomous AI agent using an employee’s existing permissions […]

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Tech Insight : Microsoft Makes Passkeys The Default For Entra ID

Published 22 July 2026

Microsoft will begin making passkeys the default authentication method in Microsoft Entra ID from 1 September 2026, marking a major change in how organisations protect user accounts as AI-powered phishing and identity attacks continue to grow. What Has Changed? The move is part of Microsoft’s wider effort to reduce reliance […]

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Security Stop-Press : OpenAI Confirms GPT-5.6 File Deletion Risk

Published 22 July 2026

OpenAI has confirmed that its GPT-5.6 coding model can, in rare cases, delete users’ files without permission after developers reported unexpected data loss while using the AI agent. The company says the issue mainly occurs when GPT-5.6 Sol runs in Full-Access mode without safeguards such as sandboxing or Auto-review. It […]

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Security Stop-Press : GitHub Copilot Safety Bypassed

Published 14 July 2026

Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot can be persuaded to generate harmful content it would normally refuse by disguising malicious requests within a normal coding workflow. Instead of asking directly, the researchers split harmful requests into a series of routine development tasks. While Copilot refused […]

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