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First responders have long depended on calling for backup and clearing the airwaves. Since its launch in 2018, FirstNet—America’s public safety broadband network—has become indispensable. Related: The FirstNet petition With over 7.5 million connections, support for more than 30,000 agencies, and an estimated $8 billion economic impact in 2023, FirstNet has proven its value not

Researchers have managed to eavesdrop on cell phone voice conversations by using radar to detect vibrations. It’s more a proof of concept than anything else. The radar detector is only ten feet away, the setup is stylized, and accuracy is poor. But it’s a start.

The Warlock ransomware gang has taken credit for the cyber-attack after the UK telco giant publicly confirmed an incident on August 14

Wazuh unifies SIEM/XDR to streamline PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and NIST compliance, reducing risks and fines.

Expiration of a 2015 law could dramatically reduce cyber threat information sharing within industry, as well as between companies and the federal government, almost to the point of eliminating it.

The State Department’s recent restructuring has undermined U.S. cyber diplomacy by dissolving the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, dispersing expertise, and weakening America’s ability to respond to global cyber threats.

DoJ seized $2.8M in crypto from Ianis Antropenko, indicted in Texas and tied to the defunct Zeppelin ransomware.

Human resources firm Workday disclosed a data breach after attackers accessed a third-party CRM platform via social engineering.

Workday has revealed a breach of its third-party CRM systems in what could be the latest ShinyHunters attack

OpenAI has confirmed it has begun rolling out a new warmer personality for GPT-5, but remember that it won't be as warm as GPT-4o, which is still available for use under legacy models.

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack.

Xerox patched two serious flaws in FreeFlow Core, path traversal and XXE injection, that allowed unauthenticated remote code execution.

A list of topics we covered in the week of August 11 to August 17 of 2025

WarLock ransomware hit Colt Telecom, causing outages in hosting, porting, Colt Online, and Voice API since August 12.

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the seizure of over $2,800,000 in cryptocurrency from alleged ransomware operator Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko.

Google's Gemini never stops delivering, and it's now testing a new feature called "Projects." This will be similar to OpenAI's Project Feature for ChatGPT.

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OpenAI is testing an AI-powered browser that uses Chromium as its underlying engine, and it could debut on macOS first.

Microsoft recently revealed that it's currently enhancing protection against dangerous file types and malicious URLs in Teams chats and channels.

A security researcher has released a partial proof of concept exploit for a vulnerability in the FortiWeb web application firewall that allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication.

ChatGPT's Voice mode is already pretty good, but OpenAI is working on a new feature that will allow you to control how Voice mode actually works.

OpenAI is working on a cheaper plan called ChatGPT Go, and we previously thought it would be just limited to a few regions like India, but that may not be the case.

Man-in-the-Prompt: a new threat targeting AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini via simple browser extensions, no complex attack needed.

ERMAC V3.0 source code leak exposes full malware backend, flaws, and 700+ targeted apps

Microsoft empowers Project Ire with specialized reverse engineering tools, multi-level reasoning for automated threat classification.

PXA malware is a potent infostealer that has targeted users across 62 countries to sell stolen data on Telegram-based marketplaces.

EncryptHub exploits CVE-2025-26633 with social engineering and rogue MSC files, delivering Fickle Stealer malware.

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