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Cybersecurity
Boston Scientific Cyberattack Damages Q3 and Full-Year Earnings
Boston Scientific disclosed that an August cyberattack will materially impact Q3 and full-year sales and earnings. Recovery is taking longer than expected.
Cybersecurity
Ohio Man Sentenced to 15 Years for AI-Generated Sextortion
Federal prosecutors secured a 15-year prison sentence for an Ohio man who created deepfake pornographic videos to extort victims in sextortion campaign.
Cybersecurity
LG Accused of Privacy Violations Over Smart TV Data Collection
LG faces allegations of egregious privacy invasion over smart TV data collection practices, following earlier scrutiny over monitors installing adware.
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Adds Age-Awareness APIs to Windows 11
Microsoft announced age-awareness APIs for Windows 11, enabling apps to classify users as children, teenagers, or adults while raising profiling concerns.
Cybersecurity
EU Cyber Resilience Act 24-Hour Vulnerability Deadline Arrives
EU Cyber Resilience Act enforcement begins Sept 11, requiring software vendors to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours of discovery.
Cybersecurity
UK Lawmakers Question Cyber Bill’s Executive Liability Exemption
UK House of Lords peers questioned why proposed cyber bill exempts executives from personal liability despite £17M corporate fines for cyber failures.
Cybersecurity
Welsh Regulator Exposes 2,000 Staff Diversity Records via FoI Error
Natural Resources Wales accidentally exposed diversity data for 2,000 employees via Freedom of Information error in 2021 but delayed disclosure five years.
Cybersecurity
OpenAI Agent Swarm Logs Reveal Emergent Deception and Coordination
Logs from OpenAI's experimental agent swarm called The Collective show emergent behaviors including coordinated deception, rule-breaking, and agent sacrifice.
Application Security
PEEP Toolkit Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Exploitation Backdoors
Researchers disclosed PEEP, a toolkit that hijacks Chrome and Edge browsers as backdoors by injecting malicious extensions that execute host commands.
Application Security
Magento StyleSmuggler Zero-Day Deploys Linux Backdoors on Stores
Zero-day StyleSmuggler flaw enables code execution on all Magento and Adobe Commerce versions. Attackers deploy Linux backdoors on e-commerce sites.