Researchers in Switzerland claim to have built a perfect random number generator from two quantum superconducting chips, a 30-meter-long pipe, and some software. The resulting device could be used to generate cryptographic keys, or to offer a “public randomness service” for lotteries or blockchain applications, they say. They’re not the first to make the claim.…
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Certifiably random: Swiss researchers claim perfect random number source
Researchers in Switzerland claim to have built a perfect random number generator from two quantum superconducting chips, a 30-meter-long pipe, and some software. The resulting device could be used to generate cryptographic keys, or to offer a “public randomness service” for lotteries or blockchain applications, they say. They’re not the first to make the claim.…
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TeamPCP breached GitHub’s internal codebase via poisoned VS Code extension
Following TeamPCP’s claim that they’ve breached GitHub’s own private code repositories, the Microsoft-owned company launched an investigation and confirmed the compromise. “Our current assessment is that the activity involved exfiltration of GitHub-internal repositories only. The attacker’s current claims of ~3,800 repositories are directionally consistent with our investigation so far,” GitHub stated. The source of the…
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Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users
ESET researchers uncovered fraudulent apps on Google Play that claim to provide the call history “for any number” and had been downloaded more than seven million times before being taken down
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Meta, Roblox and TikTok claim to UK Parliament that their platforms are are not additive to children and that Australian under 16 ban will fail
The claim from Meta, Roblox and TikTok that Australia’s under-16 social media ban is “not really enforceable” has now moved from industry talking point to parliamentary record, following testimony before the UK’s Education Committee in April. But beneath the predictable pushback from Meta, TikTok and Roblox lies a more complex—and more uncomfortable—reality for policymakers on…
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Pro-Iran Handala group breached Israeli defence contractor PSK Wind Technologies
Iran-linked hackers claim to have breached Israeli air defence contractor PSK Wind, which develops command and control systems. Pro-Iran Handala group announced on April 2 that it breached PSK Wind Technologies, an Israeli engineering and IT firm specializing in integrated systems for defense and critical communications, including command and control solutions. Handala appears as a…
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ShinyHunters Hackers Claim Theft of 3M+ Cisco Records, Threaten Public Leak
ShinyHunters hackers claim they stole 3 million+ Cisco records via Salesforce and AWS, warning of a public leak if demands are not met by April 3, 2026.
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When algorithms decide: The hidden role of AI in insurance claims
GUEST OPINION: When you file an insurance claim after an accident, you probably assume that a human adjuster will review your case file and decide how much compensation you’ll get. That may have been true several years ago, but today’s claims are being evaluated by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Many of today’s insurance companies rely…
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Iran-Linked Handala Hackers Claim Major Hacks on Stryker and Verifone
Iran-linked Handala hackers claim cyberattacks on Stryker and Verifone. Stryker confirms network disruption while Verifone says no breach evidence found.
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Spanish police say they have arrested hacker who booked luxury hotel rooms for just one cent
Spain’s police force has announced that it has arrested a 20-year-old man who they claim managed to book luxury hotel rooms worth up to €1,000 a night for just one euro cent. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Design weaknesses in major password managers enable vault attacks, researchers say
Can cloud-based password managers that claim “zero-knowledge encryption” keep users’ passwords safe even if their encrypted-vault servers are compromised? Researchers at ETH Zurich and Università della Svizzera italiana set out to answer that question, and the answer is (unfortunately) no. Attack paths against encrypted vaults Cloud-based password managers store users’s passwords in a password vault,…