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GNU Privacy Guard, a popular implementation of the OpenPGP standard, was found to have multiple vulnerabilities including modifying the plaintext shown to the user and modifying files on the user’s system.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has launched their new standard for secure, interoperable smart locks called Aliro.
WIRED, crypto, and 2026's first candidate for "cascading data breach"
AI data centers are running up against the physical limits of copper for transmitting data, so radio is being considered as a replacement.
The Aflac breach affected 22.6 million customers. And this was a slow week.
Following multiple outages, Cloudflare outlines their plan to improve resilience of their network, titled “Code Orange: Fail Small.”
The Linux Foundation announced the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation to standardize and support an open, collaborative ecosystem for agentic AI.
The Texas Attorney General has launched a lawsuit against five major smart TV manufacturers - Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL - over their use of Automated Content Recognition, or ACR.
Bunq, a Dutch neobank that’s been growing in popularity in recent years, has started sharing users’ investments with others on their contacts list, according to RTL.
Data breaches at Hama Film, Home Depot, 700Credit, PornHub, Askul, SoundCloud, University of Sydney, plus an update on last week's Coupang data breach.
This week, Google announced they would be shutting down their "Dark Web Report" tool, stating "it didn't provide helpful next steps." This was a separate offering from Google's "Results About You" service sometimes recommended to help stop data brokers leaking your info.
Data breaches galore this week from Petco, AI startups, healthcare providers, and other organizations.
Brave Nightly will include an opt-in agentic AI browsing mode that hosts additional safeguards for your personal data. But is it actually safe?
The FIDO alliance, in charge of authentication standards such as the FIDO2 standard widely used in hardware keys, has announced a new digital credentials initiative aimed at standardizing and streamlining the adoption of “verifiable digital credentials and identity wallets.”
Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta-based activist, was charged with destroying evidence after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection unit searched his Google Pixel smartphone.
India’s government is considering a proposal to force smartphone manufacturers to enable GPS tracking at all times.
Kohler's smart toilet camera claims that all photos are secured with end‑to‑end encryption, but it turns out that they only use TLS encryption.
The IDF has banned the use of Android phones by senior officers to prevent social engineering attacks.
Session, a popular encrypted messenger app in the privacy community, today announced several major updates, including one correcting one of their most common and serious criticisms.
According to Android Authority, the operating system that’s meant to merge Android and ChromeOS into one, unified OS is called “Aluminium OS.”
IVPN recently announced that they now support V2Ray obfuscation on their Android client, meaning they now support it on all platforms where they offer a client.