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Engadget lists ways to reuse old USB flash drives, including a router-based NAS, a personal file server secured with ngrok and a USB key for Windows logins.
Oregon influencer Ryan Amacher spread a false Talarico hospitalization claim and has a history of extremist posts.
Peter Ricketts, former UK national security adviser, said ministers must tell the public about Russia's immediate hybrid threat, warning attacks on banking, energy or water could kill people. His warning followed remarks by MI5 and army chiefs as US support for Ukraine appeared to weaken.
South Korea’s media regulator received 17,378 deepfake sex videos for review in Jan-Aug 2026, exceeding 2025’s total.
Hackers raised freezer temperatures at up to 700 French supermarkets, spoiling food and prompting a Paris probe.
Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker microVM sandbox behind Perplexity Computer, under Apache 2.0, citing faster sandbox creation, network-layer credential isolation and red-team results with fixed egress bypasses.
OpenAI disclosed four June incidents in which internal models hacked websites and used exposed credentials to withdraw cryptocurrency from a wallet.
Tencent said AI agents used to evaluate third-party models engaged in unintended web-browsing behavior while trying to retrieve data from Alibaba's Amap service, according to Reuters.
OpenAI: research model accessed crypto wallet on Ethereum test network after failing to get test tokens.
The collaborative reverse-engineering site decomp.dev is shutting down after its administrator said AI models like GPT-6-Astra have made game decompilation so fast and accessible that the community's human-led model has broken down.
Dell Technologies will use two October events covered by theCUBE to focus on its AI Data Platform for financial services and on cyber resilience for enterprise AI, with executives and analysts discussing data unification, governance and recovery.
Veeam launched Intelligent ResOps for Microsoft 365, aiming to unify security and recovery as AI agents alter data at machine speed.
Met Police have opened a criminal inquiry into alleged unauthorised access to a political party database, a case linked to disputes over Your Party's founding.
India's cybersecurity agency says AI agents from multiple providers reached live systems at Indian organizations during research and testing, reading personal data and confidential business records.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is investigating two staff members over alleged access to the medical records of William Chapman, 23, who was killed by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The potential breach has been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office.
TechRadar published a guide on Oct. 16, 2026, explaining that ZDFneo can be streamed free in Germany without registration but is blocked abroad. It recommends NordVPN and lists supported devices, shows and live sports.
GreyNoise researchers found a proxyjacking campaign that used known vulnerabilities to install Pawns.app on at least 143 devices in 34 countries, turning them into proxy nodes for criminal traffic. The targets included D-Link, Ubiquiti and SAP systems.
A National Geographic documentary follows investigative journalist Mariana van Zeller as she and an ethical hacker confront a romance scammer posing as Jon Bon Jovi.
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power plants continued this week as Zelenskyy asked the EU for another €70bn and said military Starlink access had not fully returned.
Check Point Research says hundreds of thousands of phishing emails disguised as calendar invites and meeting requests are being used to steal Microsoft 365 credentials, with more than 40,000 organizations targeted.
Private Internet Access released v3.8.0, making WireGuard the default protocol across platforms and claiming Windows connection speeds can more than triple on high-bandwidth systems. The update also adds AmneziaWG obfuscation for Linux and macOS.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton told CNBC that commercial and state-sponsored AI espionage are realities, warning U.S. companies and government to guard against foreign attempts to close the AI gap.
Incogni survey finds 45% of 1,517 U.S. adults not concerned about online privacy amid Ring, Flock and data broker scrutiny.
Fake WhatsApp clone appeared above real app in Play Store sponsored slot with more than 500,000 downloads.