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A real-world Trojan Horse attack

Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."…

Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first

Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign.…

Stale designs and market maturation aren't helping either, says Counterpoint Research

World War Fee  The Trump administration's chaotic tariff regime is likely to have a serious impact on the smartphone market worldwide, but the latest forecasts predict the disruption will be felt most keenly in the one economy Trump is trying to protect: The United States. …

Tech giants say blocking purloined devices via IMEI could open new fraud risks

UK legislators are questioning why Apple and Google have yet to implement measures to allow smartphones to be locked, reset, and prevented from accessing cloud services after they've been stolen, as requested by police.…

Did somebody say ransomware? Not the newspaper group, not even to deny it

Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year.…

Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags

World War Fee  PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.…

AI sales are a little 'lumpy' but all things hybrid cloud are going well - including job cuts

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri remains optimistic that US regulators will allow its planned acquisition of Juniper Networks but has admitted the company has considered other plans if regulators nix the deal.…

Government details latest initiative following announcement last week

Revealing more details about the Cyber and Electromagnetic (CyberEM) military domain, the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) says "there are pockets of excellence" but improvements must be made to ensure the country's capability meets the needs of national defense.…

Altnet claims upgrade puts it ahead of Openreach on performance and cost, with more to come in 2026

Alternative UK network CityFibre has lifted the lid on a 5.5 Gbps wholesale package it says will allow internet service provider (ISP) customers to operate a service more than twice as fast than its current top-speed fiber product.…

Why? There's a war in Europe, Finland has a belligerent neighbor, and cyber is a settled field

Interview  Mikko Hyppönen has spent the last 34 years creating security software that defends against criminals and state-backed actors, but now he's moving onto drone warfare.…

Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs

Broadcom began shipping its answer to Nvidia's upcoming Quantum-X and Spectrum-X switches on Tuesday: the Tomahawk 6. The chip doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor and comes in both standard and co-packaged optics flavors.…

CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp

The CEO of Indian grocery ordering app KiranaPro has claimed an attacker deleted its GitHub and AWS resources in a targeted and deliberate attack and vowed to name the perpetrator.…

Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins

Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.…

Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and pals promise clarity on cybercrew naming, deliver alias salad instead

Opinion  Microsoft and CrowdStrike made a lot of noise on Monday about teaming up with other threat-intel outfits to "bring clarity to threat-actor naming."…

The 20-year deal with Constellation will slake Zuckercorp's thirst for energy to power AI datacenters

Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in 2027. …

TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind

Google revealed Monday that it had quietly deployed a configuration change last week to block active exploitation of a Chrome zero-day.…

Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store

Microsoft has announced more tweaks to Windows in a bid to stay on the right side of Europe's Digital Markets Act, including a promise that Edge will only nag users to become their default browser if they open it first.…

Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads

Elon Musk's X social media platform is rolling out a new version of its direct messaging feature that the platform owner said had a "whole new architecture," but as with many a Muskian proclamation, there's reason to doubt what's been said. …

Outdoorsy brand blames credential stuffing

Joining the long queue of retailers dealing with cyber mishaps is outdoorsy fashion brand The North Face, which says crooks broke into some customer accounts using login creds pinched from breaches elsewhere.…

Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025

In a nod to European customers' growing mistrust of American hyperscalers, Amazon Web Services says it is establishing a new organization in the region "backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections."…