News archive — Page 4
Source-backed reporting on VPNs, privacy, scams, data breaches and online security—plus the practical steps worth taking next.
News archive
Reports 31–40
Clear summaries, visible dates and direct source links—without turning every security story into a VPN sales pitch.
French Tax Breach Exposes Data on 678,000 People and Businesses
France's finance ministry says tax and property data was accessed, with records extracted from public-finance systems, although online accounts, user IDs and passwords were not compromised.
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Sainsbury’s Pauses Facial Recognition After Shopper Is Wrongly Removed
A London branch has suspended its live facial-recognition system while Sainsbury’s investigates why an innocent customer was challenged and escorted out after an automated alert.
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Andy Burnham Messaged a White House Impostor: How to Verify a Contact
The UK prime minister exchanged a few messages with someone posing as a senior US official before becoming suspicious, a high-profile example of why identity must be checked outside the same chat.
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Met Police Exposes Email Addresses in Al Fayed Survivor Update
A monthly investigation update made recipients visible to one another, identifying people connected to an exceptionally sensitive case only days after the ICO ordered wider data-protection improvements.
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NHS Transplant Data Was Sent Over an Unencrypted Pager Network
NHS Blood and Transplant has stopped sending patient information to pagers after a BBC investigation found names, dates of birth and transplant details travelling over interceptable radio signals.
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Apple Warns Targeted iPhone Users About Mercenary Spyware
A new alert round reached users in 110 countries. Apple says genuine notifications indicate high-confidence individual targeting and should be verified directly through the user's account.
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Trezor Customers Exposed in ShipMonk Shipping-Provider Breach
Names and contact details for 13,689 customers were exposed through a fulfilment partner, creating targeted crypto-phishing risk even though Trezor says its wallets remain secure.
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AmnesiaStealer Hijacks Logged-In Browser Sessions on macOS
Jamf researchers detailed a ClickFix campaign that tricks Mac users into pasting a Terminal command before stealing keychains, cookies and data and enabling hidden browser control.
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WhatsApp Tests Scam Alerts That Analyse Messages On-Device
The optional early beta checks messages from non-contacts locally, while keeping message content and model inference on the phone and leaving the final block-or-report decision to the user.
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Ukraine Shuts 94 Scam Call Centres in Nationwide Operation
Police say operators posed as banks, brokers and law enforcement, pushed fake investments and remote-access apps, and sometimes targeted people elsewhere in Europe.
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