The Active Adversary Report: Safety in numbers
What a long, strange trip it’s been Categories: Security Operations Tags: Active Adversary
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Stopping real-world attacks: Lessons for business leaders from the 2026 cyber frontline
Practical steps to reduce business cyber risk based on analysis of 661 incidents remediated by Sophos X-Ops as detailed in the Sophos Active Adversary Report 2026 Categories: Products & Services Tags: MDR., Identity Security, ITDR, Secure by Design, XDR
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of…
Sophos Workspace Protection Enables Secure Access for Contractors and Guests
Categories: Products & Services Tags: Workspace
A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why.
Scientists have resolved a longstanding mystery about the Great Unconformity, a huge gap in the geological record that shows up across the world and has inspired speculation for more than 150 years, reports a study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The unconformity shows up around the world when sedimentary…
Meta’s AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of ‘Spectral Labor’
Last week, Business Insider reported on a Meta patent describing a system that would simulate a user’s social media activity after their death.The patent imagines a world where you’d be able to chat with a deceased friend’s Facebook or Instagram account after their death, and have a large language model simulate their posting or chatting…
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes and called it a “rookie mistake.” …
Podcast: Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)
In this week’s interview, Sam is joined by Harlo Holmes. Harlo is the Chief Security Programs Officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She’s a media scholar, software programmer, and activist. Harlo and Sam discuss the important work she does every day, and why it’s only becoming more crucial. They also get into how to…
How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, including a CBP officer who was on the scene when another officer shot a U.S. citizen, are using a free walkie talkie app called Zello to coordinate their operations, 404 Media has found. The findings give insight into the sort of technology that…
At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, we have a very special edition of the newsletter packed with everything I saw and heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting, held in Phoenix from February 12 to 14. Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, with over…