UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias
2026-03-20T19:23:58Z•b28ace82a71c1cd9494d645f85c9a1fb902b0f99dd207414c6e8deef6890ba53
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What happened
A snapshot of ongoing high-impact cyber events: a UK police force has suspended live facial recognition after a study found racial bias; US authorities disrupted massive IoT botnets responsible for record-breaking DDoS traffic (peaks reported ~30 Tbps); unknown actors are actively exploiting another critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability; ransomware operators were observed abusing a now-patched, maximum-severity Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center flaw (CVE-2026-20131) prior to disclosure; Iranian-linked attackers abused Microsoft Intune during the Stryker incident, prompting federal
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