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EU KIDS Act Proposal Sets Privacy-Preserving Age Verification Requirements

The European Commission has proposed requiring certified, privacy-preserving age verification for social networking and video-sharing services with risky…

Delinea Joins Project Glasswing to Test Privileged-Access Code With Claude

Delinea has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and is testing Claude Mythos 5.1 against its own privileged-access software, beginning with code that stores,…

Alabama Makes Login.gov the Primary Identity Check for Initial Unemployment Claims

Alabama will make Login.gov the primary identity verification method for initial unemployment compensation claims beginning September 30, requiring applicants…

Missouri Order Bars Facial Recognition Integration With License Plate Readers

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has signed an executive order requiring safeguards for automated license plate reader systems, including a prohibition on…

Researchers Chain Forum Exploit and SSO Weakness to Access OpenAI Employee Accounts

Security researchers at Hacktron have disclosed how an image-processing vulnerability in OpenAI’s community forum combined with a separate single sign-on…

Indonesia Opens Market Engagement for Next-Generation National ABIS

Indonesia’s Directorate General of Population and Civil Registration is seeking input from biometric technology suppliers ahead of the planned procurement of a…

Japan Publishes Technical Results of EU Digital Wallet Interoperability Tests

Japan’s Digital Agency has published detailed technical results from its Japan–EU educational credential interoperability tests, documenting how wallets,…

Cisco Patches Actively Exploited Authentication Bypass in Identity Services Engine

Cisco has released patches for an actively exploited authentication-bypass vulnerability in Identity Services Engine, warning that remote attackers can gain…

Hush Finds Hardcoded Secrets in Public AI Tool Configurations

Hush Security has found hardcoded secrets in 12 percent of credential slots across roughly 82,000 public Model Context Protocol configuration files, exposing…

World Money Adds Biometric Proof-of-Human Rewards to Finance App

Tools for Humanity is beginning the rollout of World Money, a self-custody finance app that connects digital asset payments with World ID’s biometric…