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The Register
OG CDN boss says fighting illegal streams is about stopping criminals cashing in, not free speech After Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently to disrupt the Winter Olympics to protect free speech after Italian authorities fined his company for not disrupting pirate video streams, rival CDN provider Akamai’s CEO Dr. Tom Leighton fired back with what reads a lot like thinly veiled criticism.… Interview threatened
Bleeping Computer
ChatGPT Go is finally worth your money, as OpenAI has almost doubled the usage limits and enabled ultimate access to GPT 5.2 Instant. [...]
Bleeping Computer
OpenAI is offering ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20 in the United States, for free, but the offer is valid for some accounts only, and it's a limited-time deal. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A malvertising campaign is using a fake ad-blocking Chrome and Edge extension named NexShield that intentionally crashes the browser in preparation for ClickFix attacks. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Ransomware attackers targeting a Fortune 100 company in the finance sector used a new malware strain, dubbed PDFSider, to deliver malicious payloads on Windows systems. [...]
The Register
Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again A group of CrowdStrike shareholders who sued the company over losses sustained following its 2024 global outage will have to head back to the drawing board if they hope to recoup losses, as a Texas judge has deemed they failed to adequately state a claim.…
Have I Been Pwned
In December 2025, . The data contained 10M unique email addresses along with names, genders, ages (in some cases, full date of birth), postcodes and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. data allegedly breached from the Indian streaming music service "Raaga" was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a security flaw that leverages indirect prompt injection targeting Google Gemini as a way to bypass authorization guardrails and use Google Calendar as a data extraction mechanism. The vulnerability, Miggo Security's Head of Research, Liad Eliyahu, said, made it possible to circumvent Google Calendar's privacy controls by hiding a dormant
Dark Reading
ChatGPT Health promises robust data protection, but elements of the rollout raise big questions regarding user security and safety.
Bleeping Computer
The U.K. government is warning of continued malicious activity from Russian-aligned hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure and local government organizations in the country in disruptive denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [...]