The AI Bots are unproductive Bandwidth Guzzlers and will kill apps, services and useful websites and maybe the entire internet.

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Their Unauthorized Content Scraping will overload the Web and force the shutdown of many useful websites.

This AI Bot Menace of Plundering the Web has to be contained before it is too late.

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Britain’s cybersecurity agency says companies must step up vigilance to prevent espionage attacks

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British businesses are being urged to step up their vigilance against a China-linked hacking ploy that uses everyday devices for espionage.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in nine other countries have warned of persistent attempts by Beijing-backed groups to hack equipment such as wifi routers to launch cyber-attacks.

Right now, there’s another Isaiah Alvarado wandering like a ghost through the halls of a public university in California. This fake doppelganger uses my information: name, Social Security number, date of birth. For three months, I’ve been trying to convince the bureaucrats at that school of a basic truth: that I am Isaiah Alvarado. I’m not alone in this strange and complex identity theft scheme. Around 1.2 million fraudulent applications to community colleges and universities across the state were detected in 2024. This is how sophisticated gangs of fraudsters, some operating from abroad, stole more than $11 million that year.

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One morning, you turn on your computer at home and can’t access your work platform. The last WhatsApp message is from the night before. The government’s online portal isn’t working either. It’s clear: your internet is blocked by the authorities. In theory, you only need to restart your VPN — a virtual private network, a program that acts as a tunnel to bypass censorship and can encrypt communications — but your usual VPN suddenly isn’t working: it’s been disabled. You try another one. No luck. The panic sets in as you try one VPN after another. You waste an hour — on other days it’s been longer — but eventually it connects. Among the dozens of WhatsApp messages that download all at once, there’s one with an important message from your family.

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Officials warn a conflict situation could cause disruption similar to recent major ransomware incidents

The UK could face “hacktivist attacks at scale” if it becomes embroiled in a conflict and the impact could be similar to recent high-profile ransomware incidents, according to the head of the country’s online security agency.

Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will warn today that nation states now account for the most significant incidents the NCSC deals with.

Campaigners say banks and web platforms are being told to collect data on customers visiting blocked sites

Major Russian companies have been conscripted into a “witch-hunt” against users trying to circumvent online controls, researchers have said, as the Kremlin continues trying to cut its citizens off from the global internet.

Banks and web platforms are collecting data on users of virtual private networks (VPN) tools, which obscure an individual’s real location and allow them to access sites blocked in Russia, according to an investigation by RKS global, an advocacy group for internet freedoms.

Billionaire owner elects not to attend voluntary interview as part of investigation by French cybercrime unit

Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with lawyers in Paris, who had summoned the American tech billionaire over an investigation into his social media platform X and AI chatbot Grok.

The prosecutors told AFP that they had “taken note of the absence of the first people summoned”, without mentioning Musk’s name. The billionaire called the French authorities involved “retards” weeks earlier in a French-language post on X.