Thursday afternoon, millions of students at thousands of universities and K-12 schools were locked out of Canvas, a piece of catch-all education technology software that has become the de facto core of many classes. ShinyHunters, a ransomware group, hacked Canvas’s parent company and apparently stole “billions” of messages and accessed more than 275 million individuals’…
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss storage, RSS, and a big reporting project. JOSEPH: In an earlier BTB I mentioned the pain of obtaining cryptocurrency in 2026. Well, that was in service for…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is exploring developing a pair of smart glasses that would “supplement” the agency’s facial recognition Mobile Fortify application, which lets officers scan someone’s face to verify their citizenship, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official. Another person who attended a conference where a senior ICE official spoke about…
“Oh my god. Oh my god,” I yelled as I looked at my own face on someone else’s body. It was all there: my five o’clock shadow, my goofy grin, even the bags under my eyes. I was on a Microsoft Teams call interacting with this deepfake version of myself in realtime. Ordinarily the other…
As vulnerabilities are discovered faster than ever, organizations must rethink how they reduce exposure and contain risk at the network edge. Categories: Products & Services Tags: network, AI, Mythos
A malicious imitation of Anthropic’s Claude site leads to DLL sideloading – and a backdoor Categories: Threat Research Tags: Claude, Beagle, Backdoor, malvertising, AI, DONUT, DLL sideloading, Sophos X-Ops
Move over, coked-up salmon. Fish dosed with psilocybin, the psychoactive component found in magic mushrooms, showed less aggression toward peers compared to their normal behavior in laboratory experiments, according to a study published on Thursday in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Scientists have studied the effects of psilocybin on humans and a variety of other mammals,…
This week we start with Jason’s story about Flock accessing cameras in a children’s gymnastics room as a sale pitch demo. After the break, Emanuel tells us why Nature retracted a paper about the alleged benefits of ChatGPT in education. In the subscibers-only section, we talk all about the cancellation of RightsCon after pressure from the Chinese…
Prevent more. Respond faster. Spend smarter. Categories: Products & Services Tags: incident response, Security Services Retainer
Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other major porn sites, announced today that in the UK, iPhone and iPad users will be able to access its sites again, ending an over three month ban that Aylo initially enacted because of the region’s age verification law. As of Tuesday, following the iOS 26.4 rollout in…
