A months-long data breach has exposed the personal information of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) workers.
Several of the California AI safety law's terms are even more stringent than comparable rules put into play in the European Union. But despite seemingly broad support there is still criticism of its expected negative impact on innovation, and from the privacy and security side some note that key regulations have yet to be placed on AI developers.
Japan’s top brewer, Asahi, has indefinitely suspended domestic ordering and shipment operations following a major system failure caused by a disruptive cyber attack.
Open-source software company Red Hat has confirmed a security breach on one of its GitLab instances after a threat actor claimed to have stolen nearly 570 GB of data from across various repositories.
California’s $1.35 million penalty against Tractor Supply marks a turning point in retail privacy enforcement. Until now, many retailers assumed regulators were more interested in tech giants than store chains. That assumption is over.
North Korean hackers have now plundered $2 billion this year and an overall total of $6 billion in stolen crypto. The state-sponsored hacking teams have demonstrated creative means of penetrating crypto platforms and are responsible for at least 30 incidents in 2025, including a $1.46 billion theft from Bybit.
Both suspected state-backed foreign adversaries and more run-of-the-mill cyber criminals appear to mostly still be focused on using AI tools to make their existing operations faster, more efficient and more error-free. OpenAI's ChatGPT and other models appear to have fairly strong guardrails that are highly resistant to creation of malware or automation of attack operations.
Security researchers at Wiz Research have discovered a critical vulnerability in the Redis in-memory database that could allow an attacker to gain remote code execution (RCE) capabilities and take over the host.
Daily fantasy sports and gambling platform DraftKings has confirmed that numerous user accounts were compromised following a series of credential stuffing attacks.
The endgame for AI chatbots was always integration of targeted ads, but Meta plans to do more than make Meta AI just another arm of its internet-spanning data collection network. The plan is for the chatbot to eventually function as a shopping assistant that can search for products and put them into shopping carts.
