AI girlfriend review site’s secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we explore the frightening and amusing world of foolish infosec errors. […]
Month: August 2026
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election
Police in Mauritius are conducting a criminal investigation into possible forgery related to the annulled June 2025 board election staged […]
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims
Picture this: You’ve just undergone one of the most harrowing experiences of your life, and you’re trapped in the rubble […]
HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC
HP reckons enterprises fretting about the spiraling cost of AI tokens have an obvious alternative: run the models locally and […]
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
The company behind three of the UK’s busiest airports says “a quantity” of data was stolen by an extortion group […]
Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from ‘customers refilling the tank… they consume Flex Credits, they want more’
Announcing upbeat financials and a new offering with AI posterchild Anthropic, Salesforce has begun to drip-feed plans for how it […]
Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)
There’ll be no rest for X Corps’ lawyers this weekend after startup Operation Bluebird rolled out the twitter.now social media […]
Schrödinger’s backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
Schrödinger’s Cat, the famous 1935 thought experiment, imagines a cat that, for reasons rooted in quantum physics we need not […]
ATF responds to ‘major’ cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang’s claims
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it’s responding to a “major” cybersecurity incident shortly after the […]
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined a nuisance call blocking biz £190,000 ($258,000) for bombarding elderly people with hundreds […]