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The man was handed a suspended prison sentence for offenses relating to the hack of Network Rail public Wi-Fi, exposing customers to offensive messaging

DoNot APT, also known as APT-C-35, traditionally operates exclusively in South Asia

British bank TSB warns of rise of “finfluencers” who dispense dubious financial advice online

The Intelligence and Security Committee has warned of Iran’s “aggressive” and “extensive” cyber capabilities

New research:

One reason the early years of squids has been such a mystery is because squids’ lack of hard shells made their fossils hard to come by. Undeterred, the team instead focused on finding ancient squid beaks—hard mouthparts with high fossilization potential that could help the team figure out how squids evolved.

With that in mind, the team developed an advanced fossil discovery technique that completely digitized rocks with all their embedded fossils in complete 3D form. Upon using that technique on Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, the team identified 1,000 fossilized cephalopod beaks hidden inside the rocks, which included 263 squid specimens and 40 previously unknown squid species.

The team said the number of squid fossils they found vastly outnumbered the number of bony fishes and ammonites, which are extinct shelled relatives of squids that are considered among the most successful swimmers of the Mesozoic era.

“Forty previously unknown squid species.” Wow.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Long article on the difficulty (impossibility?) of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance.

Forescout found that most LLMs are unreliable in vulnerability research and exploit tasks, with threat actors still skeptical about using tools for these purposes

A new probe, opened two months after a €530m fine to TikTok, will investigate the tech giant’s storage of EU users’ data in China

The NCA has arrested four individuals on suspicion of involvement in the attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods

Personal data of Nippon Steel Solutions’ customers, partners and employees may be compromised