Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, has fined telecom operator WindTre €1,715,600 over two 2025 data breaches that exposed the personal information of more than 365,000 customers — breaches that started not with a line of malicious code, but with a phone call.

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A security researcher has found a critical, still-unpatched flaw that lets anyone with an internet connection take over an arbitrary Shark robot vacuum — watch through its camera, drive it around a stranger's home, and pull the Wi-Fi password stored on the device — using nothing more than a certific...

A lawyer in Minnesota was cleaning his kitchen when his robot vacuum started shouting racial slurs at him. In Los Angeles, another unit chased a family dog across the living room while broadcasting abuse through its speaker. In Australia, a television reporter sat in a park across the street from a...

Dutch police, working with Europol and authorities in several other countries, say they have largely dismantled an international investment fraud network that generated more than €100 million a month at its peak by convincing victims to pour money into fake cryptocurrency trading platforms.

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A security firm says two vulnerabilities in Claude for Chrome, Anthropic's AI browser assistant, have gone unpatched through eight consecutive software releases, allowing another browser extension to trick the AI into reading a user's Gmail messages, Google Docs, and calendar entries without a genui...

Google has formally told the European Commission that broad measures used across Europe to fight online piracy — blocking DNS resolvers, VPN services, and shared IP addresses — are largely ineffective and cause serious collateral damage to legitimate internet infrastructure.

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Cracking open an Android app, changing something inside it, and repackaging it as if nothing happened used to take real skill. Reverse engineering an APK meant decompiling it, understanding unfamiliar code, making a change without breaking anything, then reassembling and signing the package correctl...

Somewhere in almost every home right now, someone is staring at a speed test result that doesn't match a number printed on a router box or promised in an ISP contract, and concluding that they've been cheated. Sometimes they have been. Far more often, the real explanation is that "internet speed" is...

The Australian Cyber Security Centre issued a critical alert on July 9 warning that a global exploitation campaign is actively compromising websites built on WordPress, Joomla, Craft CMS, and several smaller content management platforms. The agency said the attacks are hitting organizations of every...