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ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy

The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 …

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Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research

Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers …

security operations
The metrics killing your SOC, and what to use instead

Security operations centres risk being rendered entirely ineffective if organizations measure them using the wrong performance indicators, according to Dave Chismon, CTO for …

Eye
US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025

State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to …

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Canada’s first SMS blaster case leads to three arrests

Canadian law enforcement arrested three men who face 44 charges for operating an SMS blaster device that mimicked a legitimate cellular tower. The device was operated from …

Stratis
Linux storage management tool Stratis 3.9.0 adds online encryption and cache-less pool startup

Stratis is a tool for configuring pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality within the existing Linux storage management stack. It focuses on a command-line …

BleachBit
Open-source privacy tool BleachBit 6.0.0 upgrades code signing across Windows and Linux

System cleaning utilities have grown more relevant as web browsers stockpile larger volumes of cached data, tracking artifacts, and site storage on local disks. The …

IPFire
Open-source IPFire DNS Firewall blocks malware and phishing at the resolver

The IPFire project shipped Core Update 201 for its 2.29 release line, bringing DNS-layer domain blocking into the open-source firewall distribution. The update replaces two …

arXiv
Even cybersecurity researchers are exposing secrets in their arXiv LaTeX source

Researchers submit papers to arXiv every day, and most of them upload the LaTeX source files alongside the PDF. The preprint service requires source uploads when available, …

automation
OpenAI releases Symphony to automate Codex work through Linear

Engineering teams running coding agents at scale find themselves managing dozens of parallel sessions across browser tabs and command-line windows. OpenAI has released an …

ics cybersecurity
ICS intrusion detection has blind spots that complicate plant security

Industrial control systems on plant floors run alongside a growing layer of monitoring software meant to catch intruders before they reach a turbine, a valve, or a chemical …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: April 28, 2026

CISO Nokia | Finland | Hybrid – View job details As a CISO, you will define and maintain the information security strategy for classified operations, enforce security …

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