Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power
Scientists at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) say that they have overcome plasma instability issues standing in the way […]
Month: August 2026
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 20 percent in July, with UK firm Comparitech counting 799 incidents, up from 668 in June. […]
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription
The AI giants have joined forces to ask the world’s developers to all please write their agentic skills and tools […]
Water system controllers don’t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked – most likely by Iran – we have to […]
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
A Scottish NHS trust is investigating a data breach concerning the medical records of a nine-year-old girl who died earlier […]
MIT boffins’ TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at DEF CON 34 that uses precisely timed interrupts to […]
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they’ve dumped 10.9M email addresses
Hackers have dumped data stolen from Abbott’s cancer diagnostics business after the healthcare giant apparently declined to pay up, with […]
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
N-able has confirmed attackers exploiting an N-central zero-day made it into customer networks, as the vendor pushes out a second […]
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people’s data at risk
A US healthcare software provider has admitted that hackers may have made off with sensitive data belonging to 3.8 million […]
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier’s Microsoft 365 account
US defense and aerospace supplier IEH Corporation ‘fessed up that a criminal managed to break into its Microsoft 365 mailbox […]