Technology
What end-to-end encryption actually is — and the difference between it and the padlock in your browser
Two kinds of encryption get called the same thing. One hides your message from the company carrying it; the other does not.
Tagged “security”
Technology
Apple has patched three eight-year-old iPhones against a flaw it believes was already used on specific people
The phones are from 2018 and still getting security updates, which is the good news. The flaw was reportedly used against individuals…
Technology
A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
World
Details of 41,000 US homeland security staff are now public, and the group behind it says the point was to replace anonymity with accountability
DHS says it is aware of a potential breach. Okta, the sign-on service the group says it came through, says its systems were not compromised.
Technology
Britain’s cyber agency says stop using passwords where you can — here is what a passkey actually is, and the one thing nobody mentions
A passkey stays on your device and is confirmed with your face, fingerprint or PIN. The question to settle before you switch is what…
Technology
More than 80 per cent get a fake message every week, and the volume itself is what makes the next one work
The research finding that matters is not how many scams arrive. It is that being alerted constantly erodes the ability to tell a real…
Technology
The PHP panic produced millions of attack attempts, no confirmed breach, and a lot of intelligence that turned out to be rubbish
The flaws were real and serious. The reports that criminals already had working attacks were not — and the people who lost a week of sleep…
Technology
One volunteer turned the PHP fix into something you could actually install — and earned a year’s donations in a week
The PHP Foundation published source code. Someone still had to turn it into packages a hosting company could install without expertise. For…
Bangladesh
Your site is on cPanel and you are not a sysadmin: here is exactly what to do about the PHP flaw
Most Bangladeshi sites sit on shared hosting where the owner cannot patch anything themselves. What they can do is check, ask precisely…
Technology
PHP2Shell: two flaws rated 9.2 let a stranger run code on your web server — and the only fix is to update
An unauthenticated attacker can run code on an affected web server. Around 70 per cent of the web runs PHP, and the maintainers say…
World
Prosecutors say the man accused of bugging an OpenAI meeting room had “considerable support” from the Saudi state
The case against Abdulrahman Alfozan has moved from an employee misconduct story to an allegation of state involvement — and the filing…
World
The US has ordered DeepSeek out of its civilian agencies — and anything built with its models
The ban reaches further than the app. It covers technology built with the models — which, for an open-source system other companies have…