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A tragedy unfolded this weekend at CFB Wainwright in Alberta, where at least seven people were killed and dozens more injured in a fire on the grounds of the Canadian Armed Forces base. The Royal Canadian Legion has expressed deep sorrow, and investigators are still working to determine the cause. Much remains unknown, and the community is grieving.
Shifting to a quieter but pointed story out of the airline industry, British Airways is warning passengers that filming crew members using Meta smart glasses could result in cancelled tickets. The policy raises real questions about where privacy rights end and passenger rights begin, and it signals that wearable cameras are forcing airlines to draw new lines in public spaces.
And on the cybersecurity front, a fraudulent WatchGuard VPN download site has been stealing administrator credentials from corporate IT teams, all while delivering the legitimate signed software so victims had no reason to suspect anything was wrong. Attackers collected server addresses, usernames, and passwords, even rejecting initial submissions to prompt users to enter their credentials a second time. It is a precise and unsettling operation.
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