3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (569+ words) The Tor Project has expanded the availability of Tor VPN Beta for Android, a new privacy tool that routes traffic from mobile applications through the Tor network rather than limiting Tor protection to web browsing. The project says early testing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (416+ words) Google has removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store as it completes the final stage of its years-long phase-out of Manifest V2 extensions. The removal also affects every other remaining extension still using the older framework. The change took effect…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (345+ words) Researchers at the University of Wuppertal have analyzed TutaCrypt, the hybrid encryption protocol used by Tuta Mail to protect email against both conventional and future quantum-computing attacks. Rather than identifying a vulnerability, the researchers reconstructed TutaCrypt in a form suitable…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (432+ words) Reverse engineering shows that while image generation can happen on-device, prompts are still sent to Microsoft for moderation, which returns a unique GUID that is then hidden inside the image pixels. The analysis found that Paint ships local ONNX-based AI…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1700+ words) If you buy through links on this site, we may earn a commission, which helps support our work. Best overall pick – Identity Guard earns top pick for its superior threat monitoring, native apps, and 3-bureau credit tracking → get 75% off Identity…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (282+ words) US agencies are warning that threat actors are actively using AI-generated exploitation scripts to target Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) deployed across critical infrastructure. The activity focuses on Internet-exposed and poorly secured industrial systems, with attackers using AI to accelerate…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (513+ words) European standards body ETSI has begun the approval process for a new cybersecurity standard for VPN products, part of a wider package of 17 standards designed to support the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The VPN standard, EN 304 620, introduces defined technical…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (308+ words) GitHub suffered a widespread outage on August 17 that disrupted core services including its API, Actions, Pull Requests, Issues, Pages, Webhooks, and Copilot, with some repository downloads experiencing error rates of around 50%. The incident began at 1:40 p.m. UTC when GitHub said it…...