Three seconds of audio is enough for a criminal to rebuild your voice convincingly enough to fool your own family. That is the figure Starling Bank puts at the heart of its Safe Phrases campaign, and it reframes a very old fraud. The “relative in trouble” call has not changed its script, only its raw … Read more
The code that arrives by text message protects the wrong asset: your phone number, not your account. That design flaw makes SMS two-factor authentication a last resort. The upgrade path runs from authenticator apps to passkeys, then to hardware FIDO2 keys for accounts you cannot afford to lose. SMS codes follow the number, not the … Read more
Meta has confirmed that an outside group reached some of its GitHub repositories using a stolen employee credential and walked away with source code and personal information tied to roughly 1,500 people, most of them US-based employees. The company says the intrusion did not stem from a flaw in any Meta product and did not … Read more
Construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel, the submerged road and rail link designed to connect Germany and Denmark beneath the Baltic Sea, has been disrupted by a cyber incident at the contractor consortium building it, Femern Link Contractors (FLC). The project’s own Danish company, Femern A/S, confirmed the disruption on Tuesday, 13 October, while the state … Read more
Microsoft shipped its October 2026 Patch Tuesday on October 13, and the release has rewritten the record books: somewhere between 1,407 and 1,415 vulnerabilities were closed in a single monthly batch, the first four-digit total in the programme’s 23-year history and more than the roughly 1,100 fixes Microsoft shipped across the whole of 2025. The … Read more
Anthropic has published version 2.2 of its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the framework that decides when the company may — and may not — train and release more capable models. Announced on 13 October 2026 on its official blog, the update brings three structural changes: finer-grained thresholds for biosecurity and cybersecurity capabilities, an independent external … Read more
Microsoft has shipped Windows App 2.5, the most substantial refresh of its remote-access client since Remote Desktop was rebranded as Windows App in 2024. Announced on the Windows blog on 13 October 2026 and available immediately on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and the web, the release turns what was once a narrow utility for reaching … Read more
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has quietly expanded a vulnerability-auditing programme built around artificial intelligence, and the results deliver two very different headlines. The first is encouraging: AI agents proved remarkably effective at hunting down security flaws across government infrastructure. The second is far more uncomfortable, and it is the one the official … Read more
Roughly 250 French supermarkets have been forced to bin refrigerated stock after a cyberattack knocked out the systems that keep their industrial chillers and freezers under control. Approximately 150 Intermarché outlets and fewer than 100 Super U stores discarded dairy, meat and other chilled goods once malware blocked the panels staff rely on to monitor … Read more
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model nicknamed “Le Chonk” — the French lab’s most ambitious bid yet to plant a European flag at the AI frontier, and its loudest argument for open weights. It is live in public preview now, but the full checkpoint stays behind a guarded endpoint, with the … Read more