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08.15.25 Security News Bites

Qubic Claims to Control Monero Mining Any blockchain is supposed to be unchangeable. That is unless you control the hashing function. The premise behind all blockchains is that there are a lot of independent hash systems which prevents collusion to change the data. If you can change the block data then it is like a […]

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08.08.25 Security News Bites

AI Vendor Perplexity Accused of Scraping Websites That Explicitly Blocked AI Scraping Oops. Did they do that? They wouldn’t do that, would they? Cloudflare published research that says it actually saw Perplexity scraping sites while explicitly obscuring its identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. To the tune of tens of thousands of […]

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The Attackers Seem to be Winning

I don’t know whether this is a slow news week or things are getting bad but check out all of these items this week: I could have easily listed twice as many hacks, but I stopped after a dozen. So you tell me – is this just a bad week or are the hackers winning? […]

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07.25.25 Security News Bites

AI is Great – But Is It Secure? MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are the backbone of agentic AI. But researchers say that authentication is optional and nearly all of the nearly 2,000 MCP servers exposed to the Internet today do not require authentication or have access controls. What could possibly go wrong? To test […]

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A Billion Here (in Crypto Theft), a Billion There – After a While, it Adds Up

To quote a former senator, it does add up. this year it is adding up quickly. Blockchain analysis group Chainalysis says that hackers stole more than $2 billion in crypto in the first 6 months of 2025. $1.5 billion of that comes the hack of Bybit – by hackers connected to North Korea. That $2.17 […]

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Security News Bites for June 27, 2025

Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets.  That is a lot of money for […]

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