Dutch police have arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of Amsterdam football giant Ajax, after the personal data of hundreds of thousands of supporters was put at risk. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Dell Stock Soars on Data-Center Revenue and Pentagon Deal
Shares in the computer hardware maker are up 150% since President Trump’s accounts purchased more than $1 million worth.
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Man arrested in Netherlands for hacking Ajax football club
The suspect, apprehended in Buren, is believed to have repeatedly accessed Ajax’s computer systems without authorization earlier this year.
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Police arrest suspect in Ajax football club hack that exposed 300,000 fan records
The Dutch National Police arrested a man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam. “On the morning of Tuesday, May 26, detectives arrested a 35-year-old man from the municipality of Buren for computer intrusion at the Amsterdam football club Ajax. The man is suspected of intentionally and…
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CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
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GIGABYTE Launches MO27Q28GR OLED Gaming Monitor in Australia, the Only Brand Offering Both Glossy and Matte 4th Gen WOLED Options
GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, announces today the MO27Q28GR, a 27-inch QHD gaming monitor featuring a glossy OLED panel, is now available in Australia. Building on the success of the MO27Q28G, this new variant expands the lineup to offer greater flexibility for gamers and creators. With both glossy and matte options available, GIGABYTE becomes…
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GIGABYTE Collaborates with NVIDIA® on GeForce RTX™ 50 Series and PRAGMATA™ Bundle
GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, announces the collaboration with NVIDIA for the PRAGMATA™ GeForce RTX 50 Series game bundle across eligible graphics cards, desktops, and laptops powered by NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 5070 or above GPUs and Laptop GPUs. Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, the GeForce RTX™ 50 Series GPUs bring game-changing capabilities to gamers.…
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UAC-0247 Targets Ukrainian Clinics and Government in Data-Theft Malware Campaign
The Computer Emergencies Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted governments and municipal healthcare institutions, mainly clinics and emergency hospitals, to deliver malware capable of stealing sensitive data from Chromium-based web browsers and WhatsApp. The activity, which was observed between March and April
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GIGABYTE Collaborates with CAPCOM for Resident Evil™ Requiem Bundle in Australia and New Zealand
GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, today announced a collaboration with CAPCOM for the Resident Evil™ Requiem game bundle in Australia and New Zealand. The promotion applies to select GIGABYTE OLED gaming monitors and high-performance gaming desktops, giving eligible gamers access to a Resident Evil™ Requiem Standard Edition game code with purchase.
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GIGABYTE Announces Exclusive ANZ Bundle: 12 Months of Surfshark One with Select Gaming Laptops
GIGABYTE, the world’s leading computer brand, today announced a strategic partnership with Surfshark, a global pioneer in cybersecurity. Starting today, customers in Australia and New Zealand (aged 18+) who purchase select GIGABYTE AERO X16 or GIGABYTE GAMING A16 gaming laptops from authorized resellers can redeem a free 12-month Surfshark One subscription (valued at over $170 AUD). This partnership delivers…
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CERT-EU blames Trivy supply chain attack for Europa.eu data breach
The European Union’s Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-EU, has traced last week’s theft of data from the Europa.eu platform to the recent supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner. The attack on the AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu web hub on March 24 resulted in the theft of 350 GB of…
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CERT-UA Impersonation Campaign Spread AGEWHEEZE Malware to 1 Million Emails
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new phishing campaign in which the cybersecurity agency itself was impersonated to distribute a remote administration tool known as AGEWHEEZE. As part of the attacks, the threat actors, tracked as UAC-0255, sent emails on March 26 and 27, 2026, posing as CERT-UA…
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Agent Computers: The PC Era, Amplified
For 40 years, the personal computer has been the most important tool in human hands. Now AI Agents are real, and amplifying the PC Era as never before.
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CISO Spotlight: Dimitris Georgiou on Building Security that Serves People First
Dimitris Georgiou has been a self-professed computer geek since the early 80s. At university, he studied the convergence of educational technology with computer science as part of his psychology MA – finding, to his disbelief, that systems were perilously insecure. Since then, he’s always worked in and around cybersecurity. He’s had roles as a computer…
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Agent Computers: the PC era, amplified
For 40 years, the personal computer has been the most important tool in human hands. You sat down, opened your apps, and got to work. You wrote, built, designed, analyzed, edited, explored, and created. The machine worked for you. It was personal. It was powerful. It extended individual capabilities in a way nothing else had.…
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Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer
Anthropic’s Claude is getting a new feature that allows the AI model to use your computer to perform tasks automatically. Both Cowork and Code can then navigate the screen by pointing, clicking, and scrolling, open files, use the browser, and run development tools without the need for special integrations. The feature also supports the recently…
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The Silicon Valley Salesman Accused of Helping China Get Nvidia’s Top Chips
A recently unsealed indictment naming Wally Liaw, co-founder of Super Micro Computer, puts the company at the center of the U.S.-China tech war.
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Servers With Nvidia Chips Were Smuggled Into China, U.S. Indictment Says
Super Micro Computer placed two employees on leave and fired a contractor after charges of diverting U.S.-assembled servers to China, violating export control laws.
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Computer Vision Frameworks: Features And Future Trends
Computer vision frameworks explained, features, types, and future trends. Learn how AI tools process images, train models, and…
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OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) has issued a warning about the security stemming from the use of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open-source and self-hosted autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. In a post shared on WeChat, CNCERT noted that the platform’s “inherently weak default security configurations,” coupled with its
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McAfee Vs Norton – Which Is Better?
Here, we will compare McAfee vs Norton and show you the better option. Computer viruses and malware attacks continue to menace the digital world. Such attacks occur multiple billions of times yearly, with numbers as high as eight billion and above. If you’re not protecting your device against viruses and malware, you’re at the mercy…
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How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting…
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David J. Farber, Known as the ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
A renowned computer scientist who President Bill Clinton in 1996 called a “pioneer,” he was at the center of many foundational projects.
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iTWire TV: AI With Accountability – How Smart Communications Is Proving That Regulated Industries Don’t Have to Choose Between Innovation and Trust
There’s an old IBM slide from the 1970s that carries a deceptively simple message: A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. Half a century later, as AI agents draft insurance claims, process government applications, and orchestrate healthcare communications at scale, that maxim hasn’t become obsolete – it’s become…
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AI With Accountability: How Smart Communications Is Proving That Regulated Industries Don’t Have to Choose Between Innovation and Trust
There’s an old IBM slide from the 1970s that carries a deceptively simple message: A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. Half a century later, as AI agents draft insurance claims, process government applications, and orchestrate healthcare communications at scale, that maxim hasn’t become obsolete – it’s become…
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Alabama man pleads guilty to hacking, extorting hundreds of women
A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors). […]
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Perplexity’s new Computer agent will run other agents for you
Perplexity says its new Perplexity Computer service can perform complex, multi-step tasks on behalf of human users, by organizing the tasks that are needed and creating the software agents required to fulfill the process. Users begin by describing their desired outcome, the company said, then, “Perplexity Computer breaks it into tasks and subtasks, creating sub-agents…
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Backblaze launches two tools to automate endpoint backup management
Backblaze announced two new tools for Backblaze Computer Backup designed to give IT teams greater control, consistency, and automation across endpoint deployments: the Advanced Installer and the Backblaze Command Line Interface (bzcli). Backblaze Computer Backup has long been known for its simplicity. Install it, and it runs quietly in the background protecting data. While this…
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Anthropic acquires Vercept to expand the capabilities of AI computer use
Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help push Claude’s computer use capabilities further. People are using Claude for increasingly complex work, including writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications,…
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Apple Plans to Manufacture Mac Mini in Houston
The company will move some production of the desktop computer to a Foxconn facility in Texas.
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How Technology is Transforming Online Learning and Education in 2026
Education has never stood still. From chalkboards to textbooks, from computer labs to smartphones, every generation has witnessed a shift in how knowledge is delivered and consumed. But what is happening in 2026 goes far beyond incremental change.
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Leading Semiconductor Supplier Advantest Hit by Ransomware Attack
Advantest, a Japanese specialist in testing computer chips for major semiconductor manufacturers, has deployed incident response protocols following a cybersecurity incident