Latest news as of 4/27/2026, 11:18:34 AM
The Register
UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs The UK's data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner's Office while an independent workplace investigation examines unspecified HR matters.…
Have I Been Pwned
In April 2026, home security firm , which listed the company on its website as part of a "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The breach impacted 5.5M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ADT also advised that "in a small percentage of cases, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security numbers or Tax IDs were included" and that it had contacted all affected people. ADT confirmed a data breach by ShinyHunters
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages that incur charges on their mobile bills, generating illicit revenue for the threat actors who lease the phone numbers. According to a new report published by Infoblox, the operation is believed to
The Register
AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.… Opinion
Have I Been Pwned
In April 2026, online training company perpetrated by the ShinyHunters group. The data was subsequently leaked publicly and contained 1.4M unique email addresses belonging to customers and instructors. The data also included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, employer information and instructor payout methods including PayPal, cheque and bank transfer. Udemy was the victim of a “pay or leak” extortion attempt
The Register
Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.… KETTLE
Dark Reading
People targeted by confidence schemes find getting help is a lonely road. Experts want law enforcement, financial and government institutions to work together and protect them.
Bleeping Computer
Itron, Inc. has disclosed, via an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a cybersecurity incident in which an unauthorized third party accessed certain internal systems. [...]
The Register
Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.… Opinion
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft says it's rolling out a revamped Windows Insider Program experience as part of the broader plans to address performance and reliability concerns affecting Windows 11. [...]