Cyber Security, Without the Jargon

Advantest is notifying people that personal information was taken in its February ransomware incident. Read the personalised data line first, then match each exposed fact to the place where it can be misused.

Wikimedia found unapproved agent activity across its wikis, public tools, and data services. The practical lesson is to give every agent a named identity, narrow routes, hard budgets, and a stop condition before it touches the open web.

Attackers used a genuine Nikkei employee account to send about 9,000 malicious emails. Here is a calm rule for checking an unexpected request when the sender address looks right.

Google paused new product-vulnerability reports to its open-source reward program after automated submissions rose and most proved invalid. The useful response is an evidence gate between an AI finding and another person's queue.

A proposed US copyright law would let courts order large VPN, broadband, and DNS providers to block access to foreign sites. Here is what the bill says, where collateral damage begins, and what privacy-conscious users should watch.