Google increases Android's anti-theft walls
Factory Reset Protection gets some teeth
Google is giving Android’s Factory Reset Protection (FRP) a badly needed kick up the backside, promising to make stolen phones even more useless than before by spotting setup wizard dodges and forcing a second reset until ownership is nailed down.
Google adds stealth reboot feature to Android phones
Locks down user data
Android phones are about to get a stealthy security upgrade to Google Play Services (version 25.14) which introduces an “auto-restart” feature that locks devices after three days of inactivity, effectively shielding sensitive data.
Turing Institute axes quarter of projects
Leans into defence and climate
UK’s AI flagship the Alan Turing Institute is binning nearly a quarter of its projects and staring down job cuts as it tries to morph into something vaguely resembling relevance amid criticism and seismic shifts in AI.
Oracle fumbles denial as 6 million user records leak
SSO breach pretty obvious
Oracle is in full-blown damage control mode after hacker “rose87168” claimed to breach its Oracle Cloud login servers.
Cloud engineers are top AI users
Cybersecurity plays catch-up
Cloud Engineers are the new AI overlords, leaving everyone else to squabble over second place, according to a new report.
Oracle denies cloud breach
However, not many are buying it
Oracle is doing its best impression of a brick wall after a hacker going by “rose87168” claimed to have waltzed through their cloud infrastructure and walked off with six million records.
Botnet campaign hits unpatched TP-Link Archer AX-21 routers
Exploits high-severity security flaw
A new botnet campaign is tearing through unpatched TP-Link routers like a dodgy kebab through the bowels of an Essex drunk.
Patch Tuesday update crucial
Start patching
Software King of the World Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is a necessary one, according to Fortra Associate Director Tyler Reguly.
ESP32 microchip has a backdoor
Lurks in its Bluetooth firmware
Espressif’s popular ESP32 microchip, found in over a billion devices, has been caught with its digital trousers down, thanks to an undocumented "backdoor" lurking in its Bluetooth firmware.
Zombie camera army breaking the internet
30,000 hijacked security cameras stitched into wrecking ball
A swarm of zombified security cameras has unleashed the biggest cyber onslaught ever recorded, battering the internet with a tidal wave of digital garbage.
