We’re looking at further online safety rules, says minister
Paul Seddon Political reporter Watch: New Ofcom rules “foundation” for safer internet but “not end…
Sir Cliff Richard reveals prostate cancer treatment
Sir Cliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer. The 85-year-old singer said the cancer was discovered when he had a check-up for a recent tour, but that it had been caught early and had not spread. “I was going to Australia and to New Zealand and the promoter said, ‘Well we…
ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 15th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9738
ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 15th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9738, (Mon, Dec 15th) Source link
Wireshark 4.6.2 Released, (Sun, Dec 14th)
Wireshark release 4.6.2 fixes 2 vulnerabilities and 5 bugs. Source link
For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” Even as large language models such as ChatGPT superficially replicate ordinary speech, researchers…
ClickFix Attacks Still Using the Finger
Introduction Since as early as November 2025, the finger protocol has been used in ClickFix social engineering attacks. BleepingComputer posted a report of this activity on November 15th, and Didier Stevens posted a short follow-up in an ISC diary the next day. I often investigate two campaigns that employ ClickFix attacks: KongTuke and SmartApeSG. When…
Doctor strike during flu outbreak would be ‘beyond belief’, says Starmer
EPA Sir Keir Starmer has urged resident doctors not to go ahead with “reckless” strikes planned for next week, saying it is “beyond belief” they could take place during a flu outbreak. The prime minister said the NHS is in its “most precarious moment” since the coronavirus pandemic due to soaring flu cases across the…
Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?
James Gallagher,Health and science correspondentand Catherine Snowdon,Health reporter Getty Some men are having vast numbers of children through sperm donation. This week the BBC reported on a man whose sperm contained a genetic mutation that dramatically raises the risk of cancer for some of his offspring. One of the most striking aspects of the investigation…
Metasploit Wrap-Up
React2shell Module As you may have heard, on December 3, 2025, the React team announced a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in servers using the React Server Components (RSC) Flight protocol. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and is informally known as “React2Shell”. It allows attackers to achieve prototype pollution…
Google Translate gets new Gemini AI translation models
True understanding comes from not just what someone says, but also the nuance of how they say it. Today, Google Translate is getting better at both. We’re introducing state-of-the-art text translation quality in Search and the Translate app, built with Gemini. This means you’ll get much smarter, more natural and accurate text translations wherever you’re…
AMD CEO Lisa Su Isn’t Afraid of the Competition
Michael Calore: Recording works. Lauren Goode: Recording. Yeah. Michael Calore: Yeah. It’s like when people say, let me film that. You’re not actually filming anything. You’re shooting a digital video. Lauren Goode: So then if you have a video podcast, are you shooting the podcast? What do you say? Do you say taping, then? Michael…
