Two South Korean teenagers have been charged in connection with a cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 4.62 million users of Seoul’s public bike service, Ttareungyi. The compromised data included user IDs, mobile phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth, gender, and weight. According to the Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the pair carried out the attack while still in middle school. They met on Telegram and bonded over a shared interest in information security. Between June 28 and 29, 2024, the suspects accessed the Ttareungyi server operated by the Seoul Facilities Corporation and extracted the…
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The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their technology to be used in the two ways they have publicly stated they would not support: autonomous weapons systems and surveillance. The Department of Defense has reportedly threatened to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” in retribution for not lifting restrictions on how their technology is used. According to WIRED, that label would be,…
If more than half the web runs on a content management system, then the majority of technical SEO standards are being positively shaped before an SEO even starts work on it. That’s the lens I took into the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter (for clarity, I co-authored the 2025 Web Almanac SEO chapter referenced in this article). Rather than asking how individual optimization decisions influence performance, I wanted to understand something more fundamental: How much of the web’s technical SEO baseline is determined by CMS defaults and the ecosystems around them. SEO often feels intensely hands-on – perhaps too much…
A report by CrowdStrike shows cybercrime groups are outpacing security teams and increasingly abusing legitimate tools.
We often take time to highlight some of the best chargers and power banks you can buy when they’re on sale. But there’s another accessory that you’ll want to keep in your travel kit, and one that we highly recommend, especially if you’re someone that travels frequently. If you’ve ever been to another country, you’ll know the awful feeling of getting to your hotel or Airbnb, unpacking your gear, and not being able to charge because the outlet is a different shape. Luckily, for most regions, the solution is pretty simple, with a travel adapter easily solving the problem. Get…
Cisco positions the AITECH learning path as a bridge from “traditional knowledge-based work” to innovation-driven roles augmented by AI, explicitly targeting professionals who need to design technical solutions, automate tasks, and lead teams using modern AI tools and methodologies. The curriculum spans AI-assisted code generation, AI-driven data analysis, model customization (including RAG), and workflow automation wrapped in governance and security best practices. Why this certification matters now The timing of AITECH aligns with the reality facing most IT organizations: AI is already creeping into operations, security, networking, and collaboration, but skills lag badly. Cisco explicitly describes AITECH as meant to “close the…
Wynn Resorts has confirmed that a hacker stole employee data from its systems after the company was listed on the ShinyHunters extortion gang’s data leak site. In a statement shared today, the company said it activated its incident response procedures and launched an investigation, with assistance from external cybersecurity experts, after discovering the breach. “We have learned that an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee data,” reads a statement shared with BleepingComputer. “Upon discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols and launched a thorough investigation with the help of external cybersecurity experts.” While Wynn has not stated whether it…
Google’s unified video manager in Merchant Center is no longer empty. After months of showing up in accounts without visible content, the Video Assets section is now automatically populating with sourced videos. Driving the news. Videos are now automatically pulled in, including content from external sources like YouTube. The feature — first introduced at Google Marketing Live 2025 — was designed to centralize video content inside Google Merchant Center. It began rolling out in September, but many advertisers saw a blank interface with no assets. Why we care. This confirms Google is moving ahead with its plan to make Merchant…
TL;DR Google is bringing ProducerAI into Google Labs as an AI-powered music creation platform. The tool lets you generate full songs and even music videos using simple text prompts. It runs on DeepMind’s Lyria 3 model and includes SynthID watermarking for AI-generated tracks. Always fancied yourself as a music producer but never learned your way around a mixing desk? Google is suggesting that it won’t matter as much anymore. The company has announced that ProducerAI is joining Google Labs, bringing a platform that lets you create full songs by simply describing the music you want. Are you hearing AI-generated music…
Broadcom has released patches for several vulnerabilities affecting VMware Aria Operations, including high-severity flaws. The most important of the newly patched vulnerabilities based on CVSS score (8.1) is CVE-2026-22719, a command injection issue that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker. “A malicious unauthenticated actor may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands which may lead to remote code execution in VMware Aria Operations while support-assisted product migration is in progress,” Broadcom explained in its advisory. Another high-severity issue patched in Aria Operations (with a CVSS score of 8.0) is CVE-2026-22720, a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that can allow…