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Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, says some of its North American factories are now working to resume normal operations after a cyberattack. The electronics giant has over 900,000 employees across over 240 campuses in 24 countries and reported revenues of over $260 billion in 2025. The company is ranked 28th in Fortune Global 500 […]
Microsoft says some customers are experiencing issues downloading and installing Office on their Windows 365 devices. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that runs on Azure Virtual Desktop and allows enterprise customers with Windows 365 Enterprise or Windows 365 Business subscriptions to stream Windows Cloud PCs to end users. According to a service alert seen […]
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is calling on Instructure executives to testify about two cyberattacks by the ShinyHunters extortion group that targeted the company’s Canvas platform, allowing threat actors to steal student data and disrupt schools during final exams. In a letter sent Monday afternoon to Instructure CEO Steve Daly, Homeland Security Committee […]
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an “agreement” with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. The company says over 30 million educators and students use its Canvas platform across more than 8,000 schools and universities […]
Dell confirmed that its SupportAssist software is causing blue-screen crashes on some Windows systems following a wave of user reports about random reboots affecting Dell devices since Friday. SupportAssist is a software suite developed by Dell that comes pre-installed on most new Dell computers running Windows 10 or Windows 11. A Dell representative told customers […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. The company supplies 330 million liters of drinking water to 1.6 million consumers daily and, in 2022, disclosed that it was the target […]
Signal has introduced new in-app confirmations and warning messages as additional safeguards against phishing and social engineering attempts that could lead to various forms of fraud. The purpose is to introduce enough friction that users get the time to evaluate the safety of an external request. Recently, there have been attacks targeting high-profile users with […]
Today is Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 120 flaws and no zero-days disclosed. This Patch Tuesday addresses 17 “Critical” vulnerabilities, 14 of which are remote code execution, 2 are elevation of privilege, and 1 is an information disclosure flaw. The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below: When […]
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5087544 extended security update to fix the May 2026 Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities and resolve an issue with the new Remote Desktop warnings. If you are running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC or are enrolled in the ESU program, you can install this update like normal by going into Settings, clicking on Windows Update, and […]
Fortinet has released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities in FortiSandbox and FortiAuthenticator that could enable attackers to run commands or arbitrary code on unpatched systems. The first one, tracked as CVE-2026-44277, impacts the company’s FortiAuthenticator Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution and was patched in FortiAuthenticator versions 6.5.7, 6.6.9, and 8.0.3. “An Improper […]
