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Hey folks, hope you’re all doing well! In the OWASP Top 10 (2021), Broken Access Control (BAC) ranked as the most critical security risk…

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Attackers are exploiting LinkedIn as a phishing channel, bypassing email filters with messages from stolen accounts to target executives and access corporate cloud services.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned the public not to "blindly trust" AI, noting models are "prone to errors." He stressed relying on traditional search for verification.

Google released an emergency update for Chrome to fix a high-severity V8 type confusion zero-day (CVE-2025-13223) that is confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild.

Microsoft detected and blocked the largest-ever cloud DDoS attack: a 15.72 Tbps onslaught from the AISURU IoT botnet, launched from 500,000 IPs targeting a node in Australia.

Leaked emails detail Jeffrey Epstein's 2010-2011 "digital sanitization" campaign, using SEO and crisis PR to bury criminal links and rewrite his Wikipedia as a philanthropist.

British prosecutors secured a civil recovery order, forcing 2020 Twitter hacker Joseph James O’Connor to surrender £4.1M ($5.4M) in Bitcoin and other crypto assets.

Wisconsin's Senate is advancing a bill to require adult sites to block VPN users, citing age verification workarounds. The EFF warns this will severely erode privacy for all users.

Git 2.52 is out, adding initial SHA-1/SHA-256 interoperability components and hints for the default branch name switch to "main" in the forthcoming Git 3.0.

Google launched Gemini 3, its "most intelligent model yet," with record-setting multimodal and reasoning scores. It integrates the new Antigravity platform for agentic development.

A Hack Week 25 project is building a full SSH stack in the Zig language. The goal is a lightweight, flexible implementation for experimenting with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms.

The DeepMind AI hurricane model successfully predicted Hurricane Melissa's rapid surge to Category 5 strength, providing early warning that outperformed traditional physics-based forecasts.

Arm integrated NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion into its Neoverse platform via AMBA CHI C2C. This enables partners to adopt high-speed interconnects for heterogeneous AI computing.

Microsoft unveiled Work IQ for Copilot, a cognitive upgrade for proactive assistance. New Agent Mode integrates GPT-5, Sora 2, and Anthropic models across M365 apps.

Dutch police seized 250 servers from a bulletproof hosting provider (CrazyRDP) used by cybercriminals since 2022, facilitating over 80 cybercrime investigations.

Singapore, Singapore, 19th November 2025, CyberNewsWire

Windows 11 is getting new recovery tools: Point-in-Time Restore (default 24-hr snapshots) and Network-Enabled WinRE for automatic driver and internet access.

Google launched Gemini 3, its "most intelligent model yet," alongside the Antigravity platform for agentic development, Generative UI, and deep integration in Search.