Notices by Catalin Cimpanu (campuscodi@mastodon.social)

The US Army has reduced the frequency of mandatory cybersecurity training from once a year to once every five years

https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/31/army-cybersecurity-training-policy-change/

Google will now let you change your username

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-account-username-change/

The ISO C++ committee has completed work on the C++26 specification of the C++ programming language.

This will be the biggest overhaul to C++ since the 2011 specification.

https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/

Russian intelligence managed to install a wire-taping device as part of a thermostat at a Ukrainian drone factory

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1153997.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/116292240115152410

The EU and Chat Control is like a toddler insisting they want to touch the hot stove

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116281465142866190

They shut down their cyber office 11 months ago... btw

For those who forgot

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116262102959307572

Google search results are now more dangerous than torrent sites

Android will require a 24-hour wait before sideloading apps

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

LOL... did they ever?

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/4chan-fined-450000-for-not-protecting-children-from-online-pornography

Have websites and mobile apps collectively decided that the Back button doesn't go back anymore?

Every time I press it these days, it just puts me on a page with ads

Belgium police are offering a free database of phishing sites that telcos can implement and block malicious sites before users can access them.

The project is called Phish Nemo.

https://www.politie.be/5998/nl/nieuws/nieuw-overheidsprotocol-moet-belgische-internetgebruikers-beter-beschermen-tegen

Office EU, an European company, has launched Office.eu, an EU-based alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, built on open-source technology and running on European server infrastructure.

https://office.eu/media/pressrelease-20260304

Major breach in Sweden, where a hacker claims to have stolen PII data and electronic signage documents from Sweden's e-government portal

They leaked the portal's source code to prove the breach

The IT contractor confirmed a breach too

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/uppgift-statlig-it-information-har-lagts-ut-pa-darknet

Hacked Dutch ISP Odido found itself in a new pickle last week after its routers were caught sending telemetry to a US AI company

They now stopped after lawmakers announced Parliament hearings

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/odido-router-verzamelt-analytics-van-je-huishouden-sipke-mellema-0uoie/

Oh look... ChatGPT sniffing Russian disinformation up its nose 700 times in 5 days

Exactly what researchers have warned about for more than a year but have been told to take a hike

https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-11-one-mistake-ties-together-more-than/

AI is powering a new US robber baron era

https://futurism.com/future-society/jeff-bezos-buy-companies-ai

Google has discovered a new iOS exploit kit containing five full iOS exploit chains and a total of 23 exploits

It tracked it to a surveillance vendor, which sold it to both Russian and Chinese customers

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fedizen/116165634225914065

You should hate Google with the energy of 1000 burning suns for attempting to kill ad blockers in Chrome

"A week-long automated attack campaign targeted CI/CD pipelines across major open source repositories, achieving remote code execution in at least 4 out of 5 targets"

👀👀👀👀👀

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/hackerbot-claw-github-actions-exploitation

A security firm has gained access to a malvertising test platform and used the information to help ad companies block more than 59 million malicious ads last year

https://blog.confiant.com/p/disrupting-59m-malicious-impressions