Editor’s Note: Attackers changed refrigeration controller settings overnight into Monday, Nov. 2, at over 100 stores in at least six European countries, including Belgium, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden, according to SecurityWeek. Retailers in Italy and Portugal have
Editor’s Note: Ukraine’s Air Alert app pushed false nuclear warnings late Nov. 1, 2026, after what developers called unauthorized interference. Hours later, Russia’s emergencies ministry said its own app was used to send fake information, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Editor’s Note: Microsoft Threat Intelligence said Oct. 29, 2026, that since late October it has identified two North Korean hacking groups, Onyx Sleet and Pearl Sleet, using ARTEX. ARTEX is an artificial intelligence penetration testing framework built in China and
Editor’s Note: Data breach notices from Baker McKenzie and Troutman Pepper Locke, listed on the California attorney general’s register as reported Oct. 27 and Oct. 28, 2026, each say social engineering, meaning the deception of firm personnel, gave outsiders files
Editor’s Note: The Tax Foundation, a U.S. tax policy nonprofit, ranked Estonia first among 38 OECD countries in its 2026 International Tax Competitiveness Index, published Oct. 19, for what it counts as the 13th straight year. The score of 100
Editor’s Note: An attacker drained about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from hot wallets at the exchange Binance on Oct. 29, 2026, the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. Blockchain analytics firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the attack to TraderTraitor, a
Editor’s Note: ComplexDiscovery’s tracker in 2026 has recorded 16 publicly announced eDiscovery mergers, acquisitions and investments through Oct. 29, 2026, and the second half has changed the year’s character. Repario, the JLL Partners-backed eDiscovery and legal data company, acquired UnitedLex,
Editor’s Note: RFC 5322, the Internet Engineering Task Force standards-track document that defines email’s message format, says the only difference between To, Cc and Bcc is how each is used. People read that use as a second message. A common
Editor’s Note: Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications circulated a two-page bill in October that would let Estonian citizens, residents and e-residents register a “digital identity,” a permanent code that software could use when acting for them, in a
Editor’s Note: October’s Five great reads turn on the distance between what a headline figure or claim shows and what the record behind it can support.
The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA found that distributed denial-of-service attacks made up just over
