News
Samsung acquires knowledge graph startup Oxford Semantics
The acquisition "will further boost Samsung’s strong capabilities in knowledge engineering.”
cyberattack
Cyberattack disrupts 911 emergency services in California
Incident blamed on 'relatively new' gang of cybercriminals.
zero day
Windows 'relics' zombified in Void Banshee zero-day attacks
Threat actors use CVE-2024-38112 to bring the remains of Internet Explorer back to life as a 'zombie' hellbent on stealing valuable data.
NATO
The cyber threats facing NATO: Google shares threat intel as leaders meet in Washington
Threat actors may be preparing to attack critical infrastructure (if they haven't started already), researcher warns
cybercrime
NCSC issues urgent security alert over Chinese threat actor's 'evolving' techniques
A group called 'APT40' working for China's Ministry of State Security is allegedly capable of exploiting POCs within hours or days of public release
public sector
Labour begins bonfire of planning laws, relights plans for two data centres near London
Two planning applications "recovered" as new government wages war on nimbyism and greenbelt building restrictions
vulnerabilities
Fake OpenSSH "exploit" is a real exploit. Just not the one you thought.
Cisco says 42 products confirmed exposed to CVE-2024-6387 -- but OpenSSH exploit is malicious: Beware bogus POCs says Kaspersky
Outages
Is the Wayback Machine down? Internet Archive suffers mysterious outages
Treasure trove of altered or deleted websites brought offline after power cut as it fights legal appeal against decision which forced the removal of 500,000 books
AI
Block bots in one click: Cloudflare 'easy button' fends off crawlers and scrapers
Growing numbers of businesses and consumers are no longer willing to let AI feast on their content, so are looking for a way of keeping the bots at bay
public sector
From AI to open source: Tech leaders' recommendations for the new Labour Government
Leading industry figures set out key priorities for Sir Kier Starmer's new government, including employing Chief AI Officers in Whitehall and more open source in the public sector
DDoS
‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack
“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."
UK government
What do tech leaders want from a new British government?
“Whichever party forms the new government, we will be keeping a close eye on the possibility of stricter regulation, increased innovation support and enhanced competition."