When “ The Dynasty” was released earlier this year, few expected a 55-minute investigative film about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s family’s business dealings to capture millions of views. …
The recently discovered sophisticated Linux malware framework known as VoidLink is assessed to have been developed by a single person with assistance from an artificial intelligence (AI) model. …
Visual Studio Code is a popular open-source code editor[ 1 ]. But it’s much more than a simple editor, it’s a complete development platform that supports many languages and it is available on multiple …
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Jan 21, 2026
Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence
Security vulnerabilities were uncovered in the popular open-source artificial intelligence (AI) framework Chainlit that …
Vox’s page on Patreon
Explainer journalism brand Vox is using membership and subscriptions platform Patreon to help build a “two-way relationship” with its audience.
US-based Vox expanded its …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Jan 21, 2026
Email Security / Malware
LastPass is alerting users to a new active phishing campaign that’s impersonating the password management service, which aims to …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Jan 21, 2026
Open Source / Vulnerability
A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the popular binary-parser npm library that, if successfully exploited, could result in …
MIT researchers have identified significant examples of machine-learning model failure when those models are applied to data other than what they were trained on, raising questions about the need to …
We are excited to announce the general availability of multimodal retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases . This new capability adds native support for video and audio content, on top of text and …
The North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Jan 20, 2026
Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence
A set of three security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in mcp-server-git , the official Git Model Context Protocol ( MCP …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Jan 20, 2026
Malware / Threat Intelligence
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign that exploits social media private messages to propagate malicious …
The Standard website homepage on 20 January 2026
Editorial and commercial staff on the Standard website have been told they could be transferred to the owner of The Independent .
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Jan 20, 2026
Enterprise Security / AI Security
The Problem: The Identities Left Behind As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Jan 20, 2026
Cloud Security / Developer Security
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malware campaign that’s targeting software developers with a new …
Leaked API keys are no longer unusual, nor are the breaches that follow. So why are sensitive tokens still being so easily exposed?
To find out, Intruder’s research team looked at what …
Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something? Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t …
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Global news media revenue was steady overall in 2025 according to a new estimate published by WAN-IFRA.
Daily and weekly news publications globally had an …
Hanna Geissler and Dan Dove of the Daily Express pick up the Campaign of the Year prize at the British Journalism Awards 2025. Picture: Press Gazette/Adam Duke Photography
Daily Express health editor …
IDNs or “International Domain Names” have been with us for a while now (see RFC3490[ 1 ]). They are (ab)used in many attack scenarios because.. it works! Who can immediately spot the difference …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
Jan 20, 2026
Cryptocurrency / Artificial Intelligence
A Telegram-based guarantee marketplace known for advertising a broad range of illicit services appears to be winding down …
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex (right) arrives at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London on Monday 19 January 2026 for the start of his trial with six other claimants against Daily Mail publisher …
Money is leaving journalism faster than new models can replace it — and “no cavalry is coming.” That warning, delivered without euphemism, cast a somber tone on the “Exploring Traditional and New …