Cyber Team is RECATOOLS’ cybersecurity desk, covering vulnerabilities, data breaches, supply-chain attacks, threat intelligence, exploit activity, and security best practices. The desk focuses on practical implications for developers, SMEs, IT teams, and ASEAN organisations.

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Cyber Team is a specialist RECATOOLS editorial desk focused on cybersecurity coverage. Articles are produced and reviewed under RECATOOLS editorial supervision. The articles listed here keep this byline. New coverage on these beats is published under the persona whose beat it falls in: Kenji Tanaka for vulnerabilities, patching and supply-chain security, and Priya Nair for threat intelligence, attribution and privacy.

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Cybersecurity

That 30-Second Code: How Authenticator Apps Actually Work (2026)

The six digits in your authenticator app come from two short public standards. We walk the algorithm step by step and untangle what NIST really said about SMS.

21 Jul 2026 · 12 min read
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Cybersecurity

Passkeys Explained: What Actually Replaces Your Passwords (2026)

What a passkey is per the WebAuthn spec, NIST's synced vs device-bound line, recovery on Apple, Google and Windows, and why portability is still a draft.

21 Jul 2026 · 12 min read
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Cybersecurity

How to Build a Password System That Actually Holds (2026)

NIST's 2025 rewrite raised the password floor to 15 characters and killed forced rotation. Rebuild your logins with a passphrase, manager, passkeys and 2FA.

21 Jul 2026 · 14 min read
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Cybersecurity

Japan Logged 19,417 Data-Breach Reports in FY2025 — What the Second-Highest Total on Record Does and Doesn't Tell You

Japan's privacy regulator recorded 19,417 breach notifications in FY2025, the second-highest on record but down 7.6% year-on-year. The number is a reporting-volume metric shaped by notification rules, not a measure of harm — and reading it correctly matters.

20 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
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Cybersecurity

Two Rival Powers, One Police Force: Researchers Say China- and India-Linked Groups Separately Spied on Pakistani Law Enforcement

SentinelLabs reports that suspected China-nexus and India-nexus groups ran separate espionage campaigns against Pakistani police between 2024 and 2026, sometimes hitting the same systems. The findings are the firm's assessment; China denies involvement and India did not comment.

20 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

Taiwan Charges Two Executives Over a LINE-Account Leasing Scheme Prosecutors Link to Chinese Cyber-Espionage

Taiwanese investigators have issued deferred prosecution orders against two executives who, prosecutors allege, leased local LINE accounts to a firm tied to China's cyber forces so operators could impersonate journalists. The charges are unproven and the accused have not publicly responded.

20 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
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Cybersecurity

£29 Million of Damage From a Phone Call: Two Scattered Spider Members Jailed Over the TfL Hack

Two Scattered Spider members were sentenced to five and a half years each on 16 July for the 2024 Transport for London attack. There was no zero-day — just a bought credential and a phone call to the helpdesk. That is the uncomfortable lesson.

20 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

Microsoft's Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday: 600-Plus Fixes, Two Live Zero-Days, and a Triage Problem

Microsoft's July update fixed more than 600 CVEs — its biggest ever — including two zero-days already under attack in AD FS and SharePoint. The two exploited bugs score modestly but sit in the identity and document layers, and the volume itself is the new problem.

20 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

A Cyberattack on One Cold-Chain Operator Emptied KFC Japan's Shelves — the Cost of a Single Logistics Chokepoint

Nichirei, Japan's largest cold-chain logistics operator, was hit by a cyberattack on 13 July. Containing it meant disconnecting systems — which halted frozen-food shipments and left KFC Japan's 1,300-plus stores facing shortages. A supply-chain lesson in physical form.

20 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
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Cybersecurity

A Nuclear Plant's Blueprints Leaked — but the Breach Was at a Contractor, Not the Reactor

An extortion group posted files it claims come from a Kudankulam contractor's servers. India says no nuclear safety systems were touched — the breach hit Reliance data hosted at a third-party data centre. The real lesson is fourth-party risk.

20 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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