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New Cyber Law Enables Agencies to Neutralize Attackers' Servers Located AbroadThe Japanese Parliament passed the long-delayed active cyber defense bill on Friday, paving the way for government agencies to monitor external telecommunications and preemptively respond to signs of cyberattacks, including neutralizing attackers' servers.

Facial recognition cameras ping cops when suspects appear, sparking backlash.

According to its newest transparency report, Telegram complied with more than 5,000 requests from authorities in the first three months of 2025.

Proving yet again that crims are bad at search hygiene An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC's official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release.…

Carrier cancelled 7000 flights.

At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that it is open sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), The post The Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Now Open Source appeared first on The New Stack.

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: How the crypto industry is adapting to the recent wave of kidnappings: more extensive security around conferences, a rise in personal bodyguards, and more  —  Pijlman works for an Amsterdam-based firm that provides physical security and intelligence services to cryptocurrency holders …

arXiv:2505.11016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern software supply chain attacks consist of introducing new, malicious capabilities into trusted third-party software components, in order to propagate to a victim through a package dependency chain. These attacks are especially concerning for the Go language ecosystem, which is extensively used in critical cloud infrastructures. We present GoLeash, a novel system that applies the principle of least privilege at the package-level granularity, by enforcing distinct security policies for each package in the supply chain. This finer granularity enables GoLeash to detect malicious packages more precisely than traditional sandboxing that handles security policies at process- or container-level. Moreover, GoLeash remains effective under obfuscation, can overcome the limitations of static analysis, and incurs acceptable runtime overhead.

The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.

Wall Street Journal: Government officials and experts say there have been dozens of recorded crypto-related abductions globally over the past year; France saw five in recent months  —  As bitcoin soars, investors and executives are taking their swollen digital wallets offline for safety.  Criminals are coming after them, violently.

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MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper about the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a materials science lab, the paper should be “withdrawn from public discourse.” The paper in question, “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation,” was written by a doctoral student in the university’s […]