Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

17 April 2026 at 16:31

Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.…

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

The Register - Security

17 April 2026 at 10:00

University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast

Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands.…

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

The Register - Security

17 April 2026 at 07:02

Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.…

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say

The Register - Security

16 April 2026 at 22:45

Bug or feature?

A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.…

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Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast

Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

Bug or feature?