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Cyberattack Devastates French Supermarkets

A wave of cyberattacks has ravaged French supermarkets. Hackers exploited a vulnerability in outdated refrigeration systems software, raising temperatures and spoiling food. France's Cybersecurity agency ANSSI, is investigating the incident. This is one in a year-long string of devastating cyberattacks against supermarkets in Western Europe. With how much it’ll cost for these companies to recover, we bet they’d rather have updated their systems instead.
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  • Cybersecurity

80% of Denmark Got Hacked, Nobody Noticed Until Now

On October 2nd, the Danish government discovered that its database on Danish citizens was breached by hackers back in September. The hackers were able to steal the names, social security numbers, and addresses of 8 million Danish citizens. This is only the latest cyberattack against government databases, such as in 2016 when Turkey’s citizen database was breached, and in 2022 when India's farmer database was hacked. The Danish Government said hackers were able to infiltrate their database by, “abusing a Danish company’s lawful access to search for information in [their] system.”, allowing the breach to fly under the radar until now. Who can governments trust with access to sensitive information?
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  • Cybersecurity

Online Scams Steal Billions of Dollars

Scammed, a documentary investigated by FRONTLINE and The Associated Press, shows how online scams have been ruining victims' lives and stealing billions of dollars. Check this hour and a half documentary out, covering the rise of the global criminal industry, those involved, and attempts to shut it down!
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  • Cybersecurity

Medical Software Development Paused Due to Safety Concerns

The medical records technology company Epic has paused product development to protect patient data. This is in response to security bugs that could expose patients' medical information. Healthcare breaches have increased in the past few years with a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, and medical record data have been stolen from Carecloud, McKesson, and Craneware. With new exploits being developed daily, how long should Epic really pause development?
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  • Cybersecurity

ShinyHunters Hack Marks FBI’s Second ‘Major’ Breach in Six Months

The FBI has declared a breach of its unclassified jobs portal as a "major" cybersecurity incident—the agency's second such designation within the past six months, raising critical questions about internal security.
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DoD Breach Exposes Data of 3.1 Million Military Personnel

Between October 2025 and July 2026, hackers exploited a security vulnerability in an unencrypted file-sharing system run by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC)—the Department of Defense's primary identity management and benefits record-keeping unit.
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  • Cybersecurity

Your Car Is Spying on You

Your car is handing over your private data. Numerous investigations have found that personal information has been shared with insurance and tech companies. Every car manufacturer has shifted blame elsewhere except Honda, which has worked to protect consumer data. How much more data do companies need?
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  • Cybersecurity, Tech Trends & Updates

Meta Insists It Didn’t Breach Your Privacy, Again

Meta’s Muse may be able to read private messages without the user's consent. A journalist recently reported that Muse had accessed his private messages without his knowledge. Meta replied, claiming this is impossible and blaming the journalist for it. Regardless of what really happened, this shows that consumers are still not ready to trust Meta given its history. With a long list of past scandals with its practices regarding user privacy, safety of minors, overall security, among other issues, who believes Meta?
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  • AI, Cybersecurity

ShinyHunters Hack The FBI, One Member Gets Arrested

The Shinyhunters hacker collective is back in the news after breaching the FBI’s servers. This massive hack saw over 5,000 FBI agent’s personal information stolen in one day. In response, Dutch police arrested an alleged leader of Shinyhunters on September 15th. The hacker group quickly released an official statement denying the man apprehended was part of their group. Regardless of his real status within the group, Shinyhunters is a massive international hacker collective. Will arresting one of their supposed leaders give the group pause, or will they continue undeterred?
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  • Cybersecurity

Calling for an AI Slowdown Might Just Help Big AI Companies

Open AI has decided not to release a new model due to safety concerns. Their latest model Astra 6.1, allegedly exhibited deceptive and unsafe behaviors. With other companies' AI models going rogue, some in the industry think a slowdown would prevent future incidents. But will it? Critics suggest a slowdown won't help, and will instead make it challenging for small companies to compete. These companies have already demonstrated that they were not adequately focused on security in the past, why start now?
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  • AI, Cybersecurity

Soon, Deepfake Voice Detection Will Be Built Into Your Phone

Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather was fooled by a deepfake claiming his brother had been kidnapped and held for ransom. Now her job is to prevent others from falling victim to the same scam. She founded DetectifAI to develop technology that detects deepfake voices. The market for deepfake voice detection is crowded, but they’re all cloud based AI models that don’t protect users. DetectifAI’s model is small enough to run on a smartphone, detecting fake calls without the user’s data leaving the device. Padmanabhuni is selling the model to phone manufacturers, so deepfake detection will be a built-in feature of operating systems going forward
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  • AI, Cybersecurity, Tech Trends & Updates

North Korea suspected in latest crypto heist

North Korean hackers have been able to steal $351 million worth of crypto from the company Bitget. The hackers were able to exploit a vulnerability in Bitget’s security to steal crypto from “hot wallets”. These wallets are connected to the internet, which makes them susceptible to external breaches. North Korea is behind three quarters of all crypto thefts this year. How will companies work to secure cryptocurrency from North Korea and other hackers?
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  • Cybersecurity

Linkedin has found ways to combat fake profiles

Scams and impersonation are big problems on Linkedin. Linkedin reported 90 million fake profiles have been removed between July - December 2025. To combat this, Linkedin is adding new tools to crack down on fraudulent profiles. Businesses will be allowed to certify that users really worked for them. Users will be allowed to vouch for other users' work histories and profiles as long as they have connected for a full year. These efforts will hopefully curb impersonation and scams on Linkedin, but will it be enough?
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  • Cybersecurity, Tech Trends & Updates

ShinyHunters Claim to Have Hacked the FBI

Cybercriminal group, ShinyHunters, claims to have breached the FBI, stealing terabytes of sensitive data on almost all agents and job applicants. The group, motivated by a demand for the FBI to take back a report they claim contains false allegations, reportedly breached an Oracle PeopleSoft server through an Amazon-hosted government cloud. After taking the FBI's jobs portal offline, the hackers warn that the stolen data could allow malicious actors to extort agents. This would be marked as the second major FBI system breach this year.
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  • Cybersecurity

FBI Coast Guard boards hacked oil tankers headed toward US ports

The FBI and Coast Guard boarded oil tankers since the navigation and propulsion systems were breached by hackers.They were able to take back control of the ship’s navigation and propulsion systems. The FBI and Coast Guard assured the crew were not harmed in any way by the cyberattack, and the vessel is now safe. This is one of several recent cyberattacks, which also included a hack on Stryker medical device manufacturer, the LA public transit system, and over a hundred water facilities across the United States. How can oil tankers be protected from cyberattack while making sure that they can communicate with the outside world and other ships?
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