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The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix, and it was the most common initial access method Microsoft’s team observed last year, accounting for 47% of the attacks in their notifications. Nothing arrives as an attachment, so there is nothing to scan. No vulnerability is used, so there is nothing to patch. What…

The Pocket Bitcoin breach exposed more than email addresses and support conversations for 291 customers, the company said. Some copied records linked real-world identities to public Bitcoin activity.The finding expands the scope described in the Swiss non-custodial Bitcoin service’s Aug. 21 disclosure. In an Aug. 31 update, Pocket Bitcoin said correspondence with partner banks contained varying combinations of names, postal addresses, Bitcoin addresses used for transactions, identity-document copies and source-of-funds records. Most people in the cohort had only some of those fields exposed, the company said.The distinction creates a privacy and phishing risk without giving an attacker control of anyone’s…

NASA and SpaceX have delayed the planned launch of Crew-13 to the International Space Station after engineers discovered an oxidizer leak in the propulsion system of the mission’s Dragon spacecraft. The issue was found during routine spacecraft processing ahead of launch. An oxidizer is a chemical that helps fuel burn inside a rocket or spacecraft propulsion system, making it an essential part of the vehicle’s ability to maneuver. NASA and SpaceX teams are now carrying out additional testing and reviewing data from the spacecraft. Any repairs or other required work will be completed before Dragon is cleared to fly. NASA…

Keith and Sue Andrews first met when they were 15, and they’ve been married for 57 years.Sue’s condition has deteriorated so much that she now lives in a home. Keith says they had to wait almost a year for a diagnosis, which was difficult.He says life became more maneagable, once they knew for sure. “I won’t say it’s easy, but you know where you’re going, and you know where you’re heading and you feel a lot more confident in what you’re doing. “Because you know you’re doing the right thing, but before that diagnosis, you don’t know if you’re doing…

Construction of the Stung Russei Chrum Kandal hydropower dam inside Phnom Kravanh National Park, one of Cambodia’s largest protected rainforests, began in 2023.Satellite imagery suggests forest clearance and large-scale logging are happening beyond the authorized construction sites.Experts say the images reflect a wider pattern in Cambodia of exploitation of licenses for dam development to further illegal logging operations.See All Key Ideas “They are clearing the forest for the reservoir,” said Phan, a resident of O’Soam commune in Cambodia’s western province of Pursat. “These days, every few days, there is only one timber truck because it is the raining…

Your article draws attention to a landmark review that describes the “care cliff” for young people leaving care at 18 leading to tragic outcomes (‘He was left on his own’: the care-leaver lives lost to a system that abandons them at 18, 25 August). The good news is that there are ways to fix this problem, but they are neither quick nor straightforward.My own research found that first and foremost the responsible local authority requires sufficient funding, staffing and planning to assess and implement care options when a child is taken into care.The provision of support need not automatically mean…

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pledged to continue his escalating war against Ukraine and support for Iran in its conflict with the United States, ending a two-day appearance at a summit in Kyrgyzstan with a note of defiance.The Russian leader also expressed his comfort in dealing with President Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, in peace negotiations over Ukraine — a pointed declaration days after the C.I.A. director arrived for a rare visit to Moscow and made a case to his Russian counterpart for ending the war.“We are completely comfortable working with people we know well…

The UK is in the business of “reindustrialising”, says the prime minister. If we are, an increasing portion of the activity will be under foreign ownership. Tuesday brought yet another overseas private equity swoop on a FTSE 250 industrial firm.This time it’s the Macclesfield-based Bodycote, which describes itself as “the world’s largest service provider of heat treatment and specialist metallurgical technologies” – think, for example, processes and coatings to toughen jet engine blades. The buyer is the US buyout firm Veritas for £1.65bn or 940p a share, or £1.85bn including debt. Unless, that is, the rival bidder, CVC, a European…

Consumer group Which? says it was able to create a fake listing for 10 Downing Street on travel giant Booking.com.The UK watchdog said its researchers were able to book a bogus stay at the prime minister’s address – as well as leave a fake review noting “hanging out” with resident mouser Larry the cat as a highlight.It said despite clear signs it was fake, Booking.com did not remove the listing until two months after it was uploaded.”This limited test is not a true reflection of the experience of millions of listings or reviews published on our platform,” a Booking.com spokesperson…

Aesto LLC, operating as Aesto Health, disclosed that a data breach discovered recently affects more than 9.5 million individuals. The private technology company provides software-as-a-service solutions that help healthcare organizations migrate, archive, and access patient data when replacing electronic health record systems or acquiring medical practices. The company first informed the public of the attack on June 24 via a notification on its website, stating that “a limited portion” of its Amazon Web Services infrastructure had been compromised. However, the intrusion occurred in December 2025 and was confirmed internally on May 26, following a forensic investigation by external specialists. “After…