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27+ min ago (368+ words) Digital identity specialists expect 2026 to bring rising adoption of digital wallets and decentralised identity, alongside a shift in cybersecurity towards continuous monitoring of human and machine identities as organisations grapple with AI-driven threats. Executives at Ping Identity said digital ID schemes and autonomous AI agents will reshape how organisations think about trust, risk and security over the next year. The comments come as governments and businesses extend digital identity infrastructure and as security teams respond to a rapid increase in AI-enabled cyber attacks. Countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas are rolling out digital ID frameworks. Financial services, travel and public sector services now frequently rely on smartphone-based credentials. Alex Laurie, GTM CTO at Ping Identity, said public anxiety around identity theft will remain high as these systems expand. "The use of digital wallets and digital identification will continue to…...

30+ min ago (857+ words) Have you ever been told that something you worked hard on wasn't really yours? For developers, that moment can be frustrating'and even unsettling'when an AI code detector flags their code as "AI-generated" despite being written manually. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in software development, false positives in AI code detection systems are becoming a real and growing concern. These tools are meant to promote transparency and integrity, but when they misfire, they can slow teams down, damage trust, and raise uncomfortable questions. Understanding why false positives happen'and how to manage them'is essential for modern development and QA testing teams. What Is an AI Code Detector Really Doing? An AI code detector analyzes patterns in source code to estimate whether it was generated by an AI code generator or written by a human. It looks at factors like structure, consistency,…...

38+ min ago (294+ words) IIT Bombay's Trust Lab concluded the grand finale of its national-level cybersecurity competition, Capture The Flag (CTF), at the institute's Powai campus. The event brought together some of the country's emerging cybersecurity talent for a day-long contest designed around real-world digital threat scenarios. The competition was organised at a time when India faces a growing demand for cybersecurity professionals, with industry estimates indicating that nearly 50 per cent of cybersecurity roles remain unfilled. Against this backdrop, the initiative aimed to strengthen the national talent pipeline by offering participants hands-on exposure to practical security challenges. A Capture The Flag competition tests participants' abilities to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in simulated systems to uncover "flags, which serve as proof of successful attacks. The IIT Bombay Trust Lab CTF featured challenges across cryptography, web exploitation, reverse engineering and other technical domains, reflecting the skills…...

47+ min ago (711+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 805 Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a tiny RNA molecule that can potentially lead the way toward treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Called PreS, the molecule enables a bacteria-eating virus known as a bacteriophage " or phage, for short " to take control of a bacterial cell and use it for its own growth, eventually destroying the bacterium. "Antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious global health threats of our time," Dr. Sahar Melamed, head of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Melamed lab, told The Times of Israel. Understanding how phages operate can "aid scientists in furthering research and therapies that might help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria," he said. The peer-reviewed study, led by PhD student Aviezer Silverman, MSc student Raneem Nashef, and computational biologist Reut Wasserman from the Hebrew University, in collaboration with Prof. Ido…...

47+ min ago (115+ words) A policy analyst believes we will see more lawsuits against TV manufacturers by those claiming they spy on consumers. Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton recently sued Sony, Samsung, LG, as well as Hisense and Technology Group Corporation ("TCL"), the latter two based in China." Paxton said Chinese ties pose serious concerns about consumer data harvesting and are worsened by a law in China, which gives its government the capability to get consumer data. The AG's office also said the technology puts users' privacy and sensitive information, such as passwords, bank information, and other personal information at risk. A victim of crypto scammers wants to help you safeguard your future. December 18, 2025 Hear More...

47+ min ago (366+ words) The Government has said it is "pretty confident" visa applicants" details have not been compromised in a hack of Foreign Office data, allegedly by a Chinese group. Reports have claimed that a Beijing-linked cyber gang targeted Government servers two months ago, and had accessed information relating to visa details. The Sun reported on Thursday night that "thousands" of confidential documents and data had been retrieved in the data breach. The Sun said the Storm 1849 group was responsible for the hack in October. The Chinese organisation was named publicly in March 2024 in connection with cyber attacks on MPs and the Electoral Commission. However business minister Sir Chris Bryant refused to say whether a Chinese-linked group was behind it. He also told Times Radio that the wider reports were not completely true. Sir Chris said: "I"m actually going to take some…...

54+ min ago (220+ words) Government data has been stolen in a hack, the trade minister has confirmed, who said that officials had since "managed to close the loophole" that allowed information to be taken. Trade Minister Chris Bryant told BBC Breakfast "an investigation is ongoing", and that officials "simply do not know" who was behind the breach. The comments came after the Sun newspaper reported Chinese state-affiliated hackers had accessed systems operated on the Home Office's behalf by the Foreign Office, whose staff detected the incident, in October. Bryant said he was aware of "speculation" but added "I can't confirm whether that is true or not, we simply don't know as yet". The minister continued: "We've been talking to the Information Commissioner about precisely who may or may not have been affected, but we think that it's a fairly low-risk that individuals will have…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago (397+ words) Updated - December 19, 2025 01:41 pm IST Multiple customers of the cryptocurrency exchange WazirX expressed confusion and disapproval online after learning that they were automatically enrolled in the company's WazirX ZERO subscription service that charges a base monthly fee for trades. Some WazirX traders and investors who were used to paying individual charges for their trading activities took to X to complain about sudden automatic deductions that they had not consented to. After resuming its operations in October, post the July 2024 multi-signature wallet hack and its restructuring exercise in Singapore, WazirX notified customers about a change in trading fee models. WazirX described its WazirX ZERO programme as a "new trading model where users no longer have to pay fees on every order," noting that they could trade unlimited volumes across more than 300 tokens for a fixed monthly charge of "99. This means that transaction…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago (197+ words) LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) " British trade minister Chris Bryant said the government had been hacked in October, "partly confirming a report in the Sun newspaper, which said a Chinese group had breached systems to access foreign office data. "There certainly has been a hack," Bryant "told Times Radio on Friday. "I'm "not able to say whether it is directly related to Chinese operatives, or indeed, the Chinese state," he added. The Sun named Storm "1849 as the Chinese cyber gang responsible for the breach, which "it said was understood "to possibly include tens of "thousands of visa details. The group has been "accused of targeting politicians and groups critical of the Chinese government, the newspaper said. Bryant said that some of the reporting was speculation, and that "the government was "on top of" the incident. "We're fairly confident that there's a low…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago (297+ words) In this Help Net Security interview, Naor Penso, CISO at Cerebras Systems, explains how to threat model modern AI stacks without treating them as a single risk. He discusses why partitioning AI systems by function and impact matters, how to frame threat modeling for business leaders, and which assumptions break down as AI becomes core infrastructure. The right way to partition a modern AI stack for threat modeling is not to treat "AI systems" as a monolithic risk category, we should return to security fundamentals and segment the stack by what the system does, how it is used, the sensitivity of the data it touches, and the impact its failure or breach could have. This distinguishes low risk internal productivity tools from models embedded in mission critical workflows or those representing core intellectual property and ensures AI is evaluated in…...