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, (Mon, Dec 15th) Source link
Wireshark release 4.6.2 fixes 2 vulnerabilities and 5 bugs. Source link
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
