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Battery drain, strange pop-ups and login codes you never asked for can mean trouble, or nothing at all. Here's how to tell the difference and what to do.
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Battery drain, strange pop-ups and login codes you never asked for can mean trouble, or nothing at all. Here's how to tell the difference and what to do.

When two critical PHP flaws put most websites at risk, the fix reached millions of servers through one Czech engineer's spare-time project. Here's why that matters.

Cut off from the network and from shared files, OpenAI's agents still found a way to pass messages. Now its top models train with no live internet at all.

Eight security certificates trusted by Chrome, Safari and Firefox had keys anyone could work out in seconds. Your browser is already protected. Some other software isn't.

Hackers used old Danfoss refrigeration controllers to switch on defrost cycles overnight, spoiling food in hundreds of French supermarkets.

From Burger King Japan's app to police staff lists, breaches keep coming. Tokyo has new powers to hit back, and one company is asking it to use them.

Open-source projects can now get free, regular security scans from Anthropic's strongest AI models, including Claude Mythos. The catch: no human checks the reports first.

CVE-2026-107406 scores 9.5 out of 10 and hits NetScaler appliances used for SAML sign-in, including builds installed days earlier to fix exploited zero-days.

P7 is a quieter, more capable version of the DarkSword spyware. It grabs passwords and crypto wallet data from iPhones that missed Apple's fixes. Here is how to stay safe.

Mistral Large 4 packs about a trillion parameters, takes aim at cyber defense and coding agents, and promises downloadable weights by the end of October.
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