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Attackers now exploit a critical-severity ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerability in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). ConnectWise shared temporary mitigation measures for this missing-authorization flaw on September 7, advising security teams to disable TransferFiles permissions to block potential attacks. The vulnerability (now tracked as CVE-2026-84869 and patched in ScreenConnect 26.6.5 and later) affects ScreenConnect clients and can let threat actors with basic privileges transfer or execute files in low-complexity attacks that don’t require user interaction. CISA added the security flaw to its catalog of actively exploited flaws on Friday and ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their…

In brief Five hundred officers will be recruited across police forces, the National Crime Agency and the Crown Prosecution Service. The £500 million comes from the economic crime levy and runs over three years. It will build upon Operation Destabilise, the case against Russian cash-to-crypto networks. Britain will recruit 500 officers to trace and seize criminal money, backed by £500 million over three years, the Home Office said on Tuesday.The money funds a new Anti-Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Strategy and comes from the economic crime levy on regulated firms. Officers will be spread across police forces, the National Crime…

White-tailed eagle chicks have successfully fledged from wild nests in England for the fourth consecutive year.Two out of five pairs of eagles released by a reintroduction project successfully bred and raised young with one chick fledging from a nest in Dorset and two more in Sussex.The project, run by Forestry England and the Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, aims to return the species to England. Nine birds have been born in the wild since it began in 2019.”This year’s breeding success is another important milestone in the return of this lost species to England; it shows what can be achieved by…

Colombia has again topped the list of countries with the highest number of killings of land and environmental activists, according to an annual report by campaign group Global Witness, external. Out of at least 124 activists killed globally in 2025, 39 were murdered in Colombia, followed by Brazil with 26.Global Witness says that 85% of the documented killings took place in Latin America, making it the deadliest region for every year since the group started publishing its reports in 2012. Most of the killings were part of land disputes and in many cases they were carried out by hitmen or…

Claim: The 119th Congress, which has been active between 2025 and 2026, is the most productive Congress in 80 years, as Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed in September 2026. Rating: In September 2026, with the midterm elections only two months away, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson appealed to voters that the GOP-led Congress gets things done. For example, while speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 10, Johnson claimed (archived) the 119th Congress — which is ongoing as of this writing and scheduled to end on Jan. 3, 2027 — has been “the most…

A building housing displaced Palestinian families collapsed on Wednesday in Gaza City, killing at least 16 people, as rescuers searched the rubble for dozens of people including children believed to be trapped.A rescue team from Gaza’s civil defence said they had recovered the bodies of five children among the victims, while 14 injured people were taken to hospital. Medical sources said rescuers could hear the voices of people trapped beneath the rubble as they tried to reach them.The bombed-out multi storey building, which contained four apartments on each floor, had previously been hit by Israeli strikes during the war, leaving…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has thanked party leaders for their support following the death of his father, Roy, on Monday.All opposition leaders sent condolences to him as he cancelled engagements earlier this week.Burnham had previously spoken about the fact his dad did not know he had become prime minister, due to his advanced Alzheimer’s.Posting on social media, he thanked, external “everyone who has shared a kind message about my dad, particularly the leaders of the other parties”.Burnham added: “My family and I have been helped though this difficult time by people’s warmth and compassion. It means a great deal to…

Lisa Nandy has vowed to strengthen the law on “doxxing” after lifeboat volunteers involved in migrant crossing rescues had their personal details published online.The culture secretary said she would “tighten up the law” to make doxxing, which involves leaking people’s home addresses, a criminal offence.Currently, she said this kind of behaviour is only illegal if it is done with clear intent to cause fear, harm and distress.Nandy convened a meeting with social media firms on Tuesday afternoon to discuss such abuse, but she called social media company X a “disgrace” for failing to turn up.Last week, the chief executive of…

Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy them.The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption…

TypeSafe, founded by a ChatGPT co-inventor, has left stealth and is launching its Jev model to automate programmatic decisions with parallel sampling architecture.Software systems requiring automated deterministic logic can now bypass conversational language models following TypeSafe AI’s release of Jev, a specialised System One Model designed to execute structured probabilistic decisions directly inside production codebases.Developed during two years in stealth by OpenAI veteran and ChatGPT co-inventor Diogo Almeida, the model abandons text and string generation entirely.Instead of autoregressively generating sequential text tokens, the system takes an unstructured state as an input and outputs type-safe structured values in a single parallel…