Customer, Employee Data Exposed in Nippon Steel Breach – Dark Reading
Information from the company’s NS Solutions subsidiary has yet to show up on any Dark Web sites, but it doesn’t rule out the possibility that the data may have been…
July 2025
Breaking down barriers between fee-earners and finance teams – Legal Futures
Many law firms grapple with a divide between fee-earners and finance teams, which can create friction that risks undermining regulatory requirements, profitability and client service. The post Breaking down barriers…
Law firm named by LeO hits out at “egregious” decision – Legal Futures
One of the law firms named by the Legal Ombudsman in the first three full findings it has published has described the decision to do so as “egregious”. The post…
Chambers distances itself from barrister over aggressive tweets – Legal Futures
Garden Court Chambers has distanced itself from comments made by a pro-Palestinian member, which included him telling one X user to “Get my name out of your mouth, fascist-Zionist scum”.…
Law firms “should not need diagnoses” on neurodiversity – Legal Futures
Law firms should respond to the needs of neurodivergent lawyers without requiring them to produce formal diagnoses, a senior neurodiverse solicitor has said. The post Law firms “should not need…
Gender-critical barrister wins groundbreaking claim against her vets – Legal Futures
The barrister who successfully sued her chambers over the way it investigated complaints about her gender-critical views has now won a claim against a vets practice for similar discrimination. The…
Digital Fingerprints Tests Privacy Concerns in 2025 – Dark Reading
Digital fingerprinting technology creates detailed user profiles by combining device data with location and demographics, which increases the risks of surveillance. – Read More
eSIM Bug in Millions of Phones Enables Spying, Takeover – Dark Reading
eSIMs around the world may be fundamentally vulnerable to physical and network attacks because of a 6-year-old Oracle vulnerability in technology that underlies billions of cards. – Read More
Ingram Micro Up and Running After Ransomware Attack – Dark Reading
Customers were the first to notice the disruption on the distributor’s website when they couldn’t place orders online. – Read More
Agentic AI’s Risky MCP Backbone Opens Brand-New Attack Vectors – Dark Reading
Critical security vulnerabilities affect different parts of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, which many organizations are rapidly adopting in order to integrate AI models with external data sources. –…
4 Arrested in UK Over M&S, Co-op, Harrods Hacks – Dark Reading
The UK’s National Crime Agency arrested four people, who some experts believe are connected to the notorious cybercriminal collective known as Scattered Spider. – Read More
UK Charges Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group – Krebs on Security
Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested four alleged members of “Scattered Spider,” a prolific data theft and extortion group whose recent victims include multiple airlines and the U.K.…
Critical mcp-remote Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution, Impacting 437,000+ Downloads – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the open-source mcp-remote project that could result in the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS) commands. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6514, carries…
Why law firms should get LOCS:23 certified – Legal Futures
As the digital transformation of the legal sector accelerates, the pressure to protect sensitive client data and ensure compliance with GDPR and other regulatory standards has never been greater. The…
Fake Gaming and AI Firms Push Malware on Cryptocurrency Users via Telegram and Discord – The Hacker News
Cryptocurrency users are the target of an ongoing social engineering campaign that employs fake startup companies to trick users into downloading malware that can drain digital assets from both Windows…