PaperCut issued emergency patches on Friday to address critical vulnerabilities in its print-management software. The company confirmed in a security advisory that multiple customers were successfully targeted and that it is working with security researchers at Huntress and watchTowr to respond to the attacks. The vulnerabilities include an improper access-control flaw in PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG....Read More
Contact: James Carskadon STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State cybersecurity leader and educator George Trawick has been named interim director of the university’s Center for Cyber Innovation. George Trawick (Photo by Kristen Polk) A clinical professor of practice in cybersecurity and cyber programs coordinator in MSU’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Trawick will lead the center’s efforts...Read More
Lead counsel to the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, Mr Olumide Fusika (SAN), has urged the Department of State Services (DSS) to either withdraw the cyberbullying charge against his client or transfer the matter to the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Fusika stated this during a press conference in Lagos...Read More
Lead counsel to the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, Mr Olumide Fusika (SAN), has urged the Department of State Services (DSS) to either withdraw the cyberbullying charge against his client or transfer the matter to the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF). Fusika stated this during a press conference in Lagos...Read More
Meta Platforms, the company who the massively popular Facebook and Instagram platforms, has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims brought by nearly every state in the union regarding the dangerous, addictive nature of social media, particularly when it comes to teens. According to the lawsuit, the states accused Meta of deliberately...Read More
Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight crime and the need for strong encryption to protect...Read More
A sophisticated China-nexus actor is abusing routers using the Cisco IOS XR operating system in an espionage campaign that reaches into high-value networks and critical infrastructure, according to a report released Sunday by Sygnia. The actor, tracked as Fire Ant, gained wide recognition in 2025 after abusing VMware environments. Researchers said this new campaign represents...Read More
I’ve gotten requests for audio versions of my posts. Here’s a test version of today’s round-up. Let me know if you like it. Lots of monopoly-related news, including a revolt against Trump from cattle ranchers, new evidence of record corporate profits, and the Trump administration actuallying dinging private equity giant KKR. Before getting to that,...Read More
Published on 31/08/2026 – 16:41 GMT+2 On Monday, Estonia’s prime minister Kristen Michal tasked national experts with finding ways to reduce the negative impact of social media and gaming environments on youth’s mental health, as countries in Europe are stepping up social media control. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The advisory board of ten experts – ranging from...Read More
In the last piece I wrote about closing the gap between “attacker gets in” and “attacker detonates” — using a kernel-level access record to see anomalous behavior in real time, and an append-only archive to shrink what’s even reachable for a mass-encryption routine to find. That piece was about prevention and detection. This one is...Read More
