Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein

The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported connections with Jeffrey Epstein.

Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers

The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft

A database left accessible to anyone online contained billions of records, including sensitive personal data that criminals appear to have not yet exploited.

A dangerous new Android backdoor has been found – Keenadu lurks in firmware, here’s what we know

Kaspersky found a new backdoor being distributed in brand new Android devices, used for ad fraud.

Top Abu Dhabi finance summit exposes personal data, passport info of hundreds of major global figures

Around 700 attendees had their passports and ID card scans leaked, but it appears the leak was plugged on time.

This former Microsoft PM thinks she can unseat CyberArk in 18 months

Though crowded, the identity management market seems eager for new solutions, and Venice is finding traction.

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.

A worrying Dell zero-day flaw has reportedly gone unpatched for nearly two years – and Chinese hackers are taking advantage

Login credentials were left hardcoded in a tool, which went undetected for more than a year.

‘An all-time high’: Number of ransomware groups exploded in 2025 as victim growth rate doubled – with Qilin dominating the landscape

Ransomware groups reached a record high in 2025, and claimed a record number of victims in the process.

Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says

Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent journalist in Angola.