People are leaning on AI for a task more dreaded than homework: navigating social situations with their fellow humans.
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Young Adults Are Letting AI Do Their Talking for Them—Even in Person
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Scans for ESAFENET CDG 3 Document Management System Weak Logins, (Sun, Jul 26th)
ESAFENET’s CDG showed up in our data before. The company focused on secure document management and data leakage prevention solutions. The “CDG” stands for “Content Data Guard”, and the product appears to be mostly targeting the Chinese market [1]. Sadly, like so many security products, it suffers from basic security vulnerabilities like SQL Injection, XSS,…
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GitHub, PyPI add time-absed defenses against supply chain attacks
GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. […]
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The Day the Bots Broke Loose
Plus, how a folding iPhone will likely look, why IBM’s CEO isn’t worried about the stock selloff, AI execs sound alarm on Chinese models, and more.
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 107
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter UAC-0145 Primary Compromise Vectors as of July 2026 SleeperGem: Compromised git_credential_manager, Dendreo, and fastlane RubyGems Drop a Persistent Backdoor AgentBaiting: How 800+ Fake AI Skills and MCP Servers Delivered Malware Chaos ransomware’s msaRAT: Living…
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Hackers Hijack Hotel Wi-Fi to Steal Microsoft 365 Credentials
Hackers compromised hotel Wi-Fi gateways to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages and steal credentials. ReliaQuest’s threat research team just documented attackers compromising the Wi-Fi gateways at hotels and conference centers, then quietly rerouting guests toward fake Microsoft login pages. No phishing email required. No malicious attachment. Just bad luck about which hotel…
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What Audit Readiness Actually Controls
Three gaps separate organizations with audit readiness from organizations with audit preparation capability
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How to Build Application Detection and Response
Application detection and response programs fail when they collect signals but cannot investigate with them
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 587 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Iran-Linked Actors Breach Are Targeting US Water and Energy Control Systems Australian energy provider Origin Energy…
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How to Secure AI Applications in Production
AI application security programs collapse at three predictable control points: system prompt integrity, output handling and runtime visibility gaps
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Weekly Update 514: This Week in Data Breaches
The Origin Energy breach down here in Aus is all over the news this week, and as with many breaches, it’s multi-faceted. You’ve got them leading with “don’t worry, your credit card is fine”, the hacker leading with “they didn’t respond when I tried to report it”, and now news that the two parties have…
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Virtual Integrity Revisited: 7 Habits for the AI Age
In Part 3 of this exploration of AI ethics, we bring this topic closer to home: How can we use the power of AI to strengthen human trust and character?
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Week in review: ServiceNow pre-auth RCE exploited in the wild, Hugging Face breached
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: AI agents are still logging in as humans Most large companies run more than one AI platform at the same time. Developers pull up coding assistants, marketing teams lean on writing tools, and analysts query enterprise search across separate vendors.…
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AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.
AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries.
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Steam forum ClickFix attacks infect gamers with XMRig cryptominers
Steam discussion forums are being abused in ClickFix attacks that pretend to be fixes for game and computer problems but actually infect devices with cryptominers. […]
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Iran-Linked Actors Breach Are Targeting US Water and Energy Control Systems
US agencies warn Iran-linked actors are targeting internet-exposed water and energy control systems, risking disruption. Federal agencies updated their cybersecurity advisory this week: Iran-linked actors are inside American water and energy control systems, and they’re not just looking around. They’re changing things. The updated advisory from CISA, the FBI, NSA, and the Department of Energy…
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Malvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable
A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims’ browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campaign on July 23, 2026, said it has operated since late 2024 and impersonated TradingView, Solana, and…
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Australian energy provider Origin Energy disclosed a data breach impacting customer data
Origin Energy confirmed a data breach after a hacker claimed to have stolen data from 2 million customers and threatened to leak it. Origin Energy disclosed a cyberattack that exposed customer data after a hacker claimed to have stolen records belonging to 2 million customers and threatened to publish them. An alleged hacker calling themselves…
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Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory
A massive malvertising campaign is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView webpages with malicious JavaScript that instructs browsers to assemble malware directly in memory. […]
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ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam
Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. […]
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Why Cyber Security Matters In The Field Of Education
Learn why cyber security matters in the field of education in this post. Cyber security refers to the practice of defending computers, servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks, and data from digital attacks, damage, or unauthorized access. Today, cyber security has become a critical concern for various industries. In the field of education, where technology’s…
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Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available
Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba’s JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the Java process. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723, the vulnerability carries an Alibaba-assigned CVSS score of 9.0. The confirmed chain…
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Telegram Trading Bot Banana Gun Goes Live on Stable Chain
Banana Gun’s Telegram trading bot went live on Stable, the stablecoin Layer 1 backed by Bitfinex, on 24 July 2026, and gas on that chain is paid in USDT rather than a volatile native token. If you have ever watched a sniper bot fail because a separate gas token ran dry mid trade, this launch…
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A Beginners Guide To Cryptocurrency Investment
Cryptocurrency may be highly volatile, but it’s currently a trendy investment opportunity. Many of the most widely used digital currencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, are experiencing similar cycles of low value followed by rapid appreciation. Many seasoned investors have been betting on cryptocurrency for years, but how can someone new to the industry participate? Here…
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America and Iran Are Locked in a Cycle of Escalation
Plus, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner got a do-over and companies have begun pumping the brakes on AI spending.
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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide
ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. […]
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A Rogue Hack and China at the Door Spark a Great AI Panic
Pressure is building in Washington to rein in AI, while the industry fights over who should hold the leash.
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Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git
Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated user triggers it by committing two crafted Jupyter notebooks and requesting their diff. The chain needs no administrator rights, continuous integration (CI) runner access, victim interaction
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How Australian enterprises can extend their private cloud network without sacrificing performance
Somewhere between “the pilot project worked” and “we’re now running production workloads across three states,” most enterprise IT teams hit the same wall. The private cloud…
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Trump Caught Between Apple and Micron in Fight Over Chinese Chips
Two of the president’s priorities—cutting prices for U.S. consumers and increasing domestic semiconductor production—come into conflict.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Eyes $20 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Eyes $20 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
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SpaceX Launches Another Starship, and This Time the Market Is Watching
Latest launch for experimental rocket is first since Elon Musk’s rocket company went public in historic IPO.
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Man charged for using phone’s ‘duress’ password to wipe data
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American man for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password,…
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Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service resurfaces with four new families
The Hacker News disclosed that the threat actors behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem have resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating that the operators are showing no signs of stopping despite extensive public disclosures into their inner workings.
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Cloud resilience model invalidated by systemic threats
The long-held belief that cloud infrastructure is borderless and inherently resilient is being challenged by a new class of systemic threats.
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Vatican’s ‘Click to Pray’ app leaks personal data of hundreds of thousands
A popular Vatican website and mobile app, ‘Click to Pray,’ was found to be leaking the names and email addresses of hundreds of thousands of its users.
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Cybersecurity threats escalate with ransomware, data breaches and online fraud
The cybersecurity landscape continues to expand with increasing risks for governments, businesses and consumers.
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UK issues alert over Russian zero-click email attacks
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert regarding a new ‘zero-click’ threat campaign orchestrated by Russian state-backed hackers targeting organizations across critical sectors, according to a recent report by IT Pro.
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GitHub to implement two-tier bug bounty program amid AI-generated report surge
GitHub is launching a two-tier bug bounty program starting July 27, 2026, in response to an increase in low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.
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Illinois man sentenced to over six years for hacking Snapchat accounts and distributing CSAM
Coverage from Bleeping Computer indicates that an Illinois man has been sentenced to 76 months in prison for hacking into the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women.
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AI assistant used in cyberattack on Thailand’s Ministry of Finance
An open-source AI assistant named Hermes was used in a cyberattack targeting Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, compromising sensitive personnel data and internal systems.
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US to deny visas to foreign nationals involved in cybercrime
The United States will deny visas to foreign nationals involved in cybercrime, with potential extensions to their immediate families, according to a recent report by The Register.
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Europol targets ‘The Com’ extremist network, removing thousands of harmful URLs
As detailed in Bleeping Computer, Europol announced a significant operation targeting “The Com,” a decentralized network of violent extremist groups responsible for disseminating harmful online content.
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How to Build an Attack Surface Management Operating Model
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CISOs vs. Boards: Myth or Misunderstanding?
Escalating threats are forcing boards to prioritize security, but communication gaps persist. Boards and security teams each say they need more support to bridge the divide.
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How to Evaluate ASM Platforms
ASM platform failures occur because executives approve purchases based on discovery validation while discounting classification and routing gaps
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What Executive Exposure Risk Reporting Actually Requires
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Rogue AI Vehicle Porn, OpenAI, Nudes, Clop, Patches, Oracle, Palo Alto, Aaran Leyland – SWN #601
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Industry’s message on CIRCIA: Please ask us fewer questions about cyberattacks
Industry groups who spoke at town halls hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about a pending cyber incident notification regulation had a few consistent messages: We want this to apply to fewer of us. We don’t want to report to you on as many incidents. We want to give you less information when…
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Zscaler Finds Critical AI Security Gaps Across Enterprises
As organizations rapidly adopt artificial intelligence (AI), security teams are racing to understand how frontier AI models could reshape enterprise cyber risk. Rather than relying on theoretical scenarios, Zscaler spent 90 days using frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI to assess dozens of real enterprise environments from an adversarial perspective. The results suggest that…
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Why Attack Surface Reporting Should Change for Executives
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Google Fined €890M Under EU Digital Markets Act Over Search and Play Store Practices
EU fined Google €890M under the DMA for favoring its own services and restricting Play Store competition, with AI search features also under scrutiny. The European Commission hit Google with two fines totalling €890 million on Thursday for violating the Digital Markets Act, one for giving its own services preferential placement in Google Search and…
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New AI, who this? 4 areas to consider when adopting agentic endpoint security
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OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack
OnTrac parcel delivery company is informing that hackers breached its corporate network and may have accessed personal details belonging to its customers. […]
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Accelerating AWS Network Firewall troubleshooting with AWS DevOps Agent
When an administrator introduces a rule change in AWS Network Firewall and network connectivity is disrupted, pinpointing the cause requires inspecting multiple points in the traffic path. The firewall gives you stateless and stateful rule engines, domain rules, and routing to the firewall endpoint inside your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). A network drop…
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Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow
Botnets powered by residential proxy networks are proliferating, enabling cybercriminals of all types to evade detection by blending in with seemingly legitimate traffic, Lumen Technology’s Black Lotus Labs said in a report Friday. The global scale of botnets observed by Lumen is currently approaching 60 million victim IP addresses, Chris Formosa, senior lead information security…
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Escape Artists: ‘Incorrigible’ AI Models Resist Rehabilitation
The hacking of Hugging Face by a rogue OpenAI agent is significant, but unsurprising — and preventing the next AI model escape will be difficult, at best.
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Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry
A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended “YOLO” mode to automate post-exploitation activity during an alleged breach of Thailand’s Ministry of Finance. […]
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Amazon will give you a $350 gift card when you buy a new Samsung phone – here’s what to know
Samsung just launched its latest lineup of phones, and Amazon has free gift card offers on every single one.
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As White House monitors latest OpenAI incident, Congress eyes an AI ‘kill switch’ for DHS
The White House is monitoring developments after OpenAI revealed earlier this week that one of the company’s AI systems went beyond its intended parameters during a security test and managed to hack into the infrastructure of the AI platform Hugging Face. According to Reuters, presidential technology advisor Michael Kratsios has been briefed on the incident.…
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Luxury ORM Los Angeles: A Realistic Timeline for Suppressing Negative Search Results
In this post, I will discuss luxury ORM Los Angeles and show you a realistic timeline for suppressing negative search results. In the high-stakes world of high-end commerce, your brand’s digital footprint is your most valuable asset. One disparaging article or a series of coordinated negative reviews can do more damage to your bottom line…
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IdP Dependency Mapping: How to Find Your Identity Single Points of Failure
Dependency mapping focuses on what breaks, not what exists
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Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
Hackers are changing the DNS settings on Wi-Fi devices at hotels and conference centers to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. […]
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Federation and Single Sign-On: How SSO Works and When It Breaks
SSO failure modes create cascading authentication outages across connected services
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What GRC Actually Controls
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Rep. Bacon warns CISA cuts weaken U.S. cyber defenses
House Armed Services Committee member urges faster cyber investments as China, Russia threats grow.
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Claude Opus 5 arrives with near Fable performance at half the price
Anthropic’s latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.
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Service-to-Service Authentication: Patterns for Securing API and Microservices
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Federation Outage Prevention: What breaks, how to test it and how to recover
Recovery is only as fast as your understanding of what depends on what.
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I fixed my home office’s spotty Wi-Fi with Samsung’s free diagnostic tool – and it took just minutes
A recent uptick in lag and disconnects led me to reevaluate my home office setup. Here’s how I validated my solution.
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US warns of Iran-linked attacks on critical infrastructure
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US warns of Iran-linked attacks on critical infrastructure
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Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug
Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday’s massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365 services. […]
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Why Role-Based Access Breaks at Hospital Scale — and What Replaces It
Attribute- and policy-based controls are makes minimum-necessary tractable without strangling care
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Microsoft, tech companies throw weight behind spread of open-source AI
Microsoft, along with more than two dozen tech companies, are pressing policymakers to support open-source AI systems and code across society, arguing that it will be a safer approach than attempting to restrict access or relying on a handful of closed, proprietary models. The open letter, posted Friday, draws parallels to the software industry of…
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BlueNoroff Zoom Phishing Kit Profiles Crypto Wallets Before Malware Delivery
The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns designed to deliver malware. “BlueNoroff has operationalised trust abuse by combining compromised industry contacts, social engineering, wallet
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The Journey towards Logically Air-Gapped Deployment
Achieve digital autonomy in critical infra with a ‘logically air-gapped’ model using eBPF, Cilium, and Cisco for secure, compliant cloud-native operations.
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Coro Hires EMEA, Product and R&D Executives
Cybersecurity vendor Coro has appointed three executives to lead EMEA sales, product strategy, and research and development as the company pursues international and channel growth. New executives take charge of EMEA, product, and R&D Among the hires are: Ingo Schaefer as Vice President of Sales, EMEA Dor Avrahami as Vice President of Product Itzik Schacher…
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Don’t get fooled by TikTok resin art scams
Resin art has become a popular corner of TikTok, with some videos attracting millions of views. But not every glossy, colorful post is what it claims to be. Scammers are using the look of handmade resin art to trick buyers, collectors, and even fellow artists into sending money for work that either doesn’t exist or…
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Call of Duty Mobile scam uses fake free points to steal player accounts
Call of Duty Mobile players should watch out for a phishing campaign disguised as a free Call of Duty Points giveaway. Victims are asked to log in with their email address and password to claim free Call of Duty Points (CP), the game’s premium currency. They’re then redirected to a second page asking for their…
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OpenAI’s agent escaped its sandbox during a security test
During an internal OpenAI security evaluation, a chain of AI models escaped its sandbox, reached the internet, and then accessed Hugging Face infrastructure to complete the test objective. OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment company. Its best-known product is undoubtedly ChatGPT. Hugging Face is a website where developers and researchers share…
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Origin Energy confirms data breach impacting millions of customers
Following insights from Bleeping Computer, Australian energy provider Origin Energy has confirmed a significant data breach affecting potentially millions of its customers, exposing a range of personally identifiable information.
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macOS Gatekeeper vulnerability allows app replacement
As detailed in The Register, security researchers uncovered a vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Gatekeeper security feature that could allow malicious actors to replace legitimate applications with harmful versions.
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The 3 types of people who will excel in the AI agent era, according to tech leaders
The autonomous business of the future is being built. Certain skills are in high demand – and can help you stand out.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 vs. Google Pixel Watch 4: I compared both Android flagships, here’s what I prefer
In a battle of the top Android watches, one does it a little better.
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Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller
Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain Controller and authenticate as that machine. They codenamed the flaw Certighost. Because Domain Controller accounts carry directory replication rights, the resulting Kerberos credential can retrieve the krbtgt secret through DCSync.
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How to Evaluate Attack Surface Reduction and Remediation Workflows
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Chick-fil-A data breach affects more than 13,000 customers
Chick-fil-A has confirmed that over 13,000 customers had their accounts breached in a wave of credential stuffing attacks targeting its website and mobile app between June 17 and June 19. […]
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Slopsquatting, Phantom Domains, and HalluSquatting Are the Same AI Attack
Slopsquatting, phantom squatting, and HalluSquatting all exploit the same late-binding attack pattern, where AI coding agents trust hallucinated package, repo, or domain names. ActiveState explains how pre-fetch verification and governed dependency management can help stop these attacks before malicious code enters the pipeline. […]
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The Cloud Shared Responsibility Model — Operationalized
Understanding which party can take which API actions — and which party is accountable for the resulting configuration state — determines where security controls must be implemented
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I tested Dell’s new midrange work PC – It nails the sweet spot of price and performance
Dell’s 14S pairs a sleek design with excellent battery life, making it one of the best midrange PC I’ve tested in 2026.
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Google wants to store a selfie video of your face
Google has started rolling out a new way to recover access to your account if you’ve lost your phone or forgotten your password: a “selfie video” verification option. After recording a short video of your face during setup, you can later submit another video during account recovery to prove you are who you claim to…
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I tested a $14 emergency radio with solar and hand-crank power – it’s in my survival kit now
AM/FM, NOAA weather band, solar and hand-crank charging, and a power bank – this tech is what actually works when the grid doesn’t.
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What Endpoint Security Actually Controls
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Meta takes on AI-generated accounts with free Facebook verification badge
Meta has introduced Facebook Verified, a free badge meant to show that a person behind a profile has completed identity verification through a selfie check. (Source: Meta) The company says the goal is to give users a signal that they are dealing with a person, not a bot or an AI-generated account, when browsing Marketplace…
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Kubernetes Runtime Threats Explained
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Vatican’s Official Prayer App Leaks 700K+ Global Users’ PII
A porous API endpoint exposes, names, email addresses, location, and site status, all of which can be easily gleaned by anyone with a browser.
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Europol flags 4,340 URLs for removal in ‘The Com’ crackdown
Europol has flagged 4,340 URLs for removal during a multi-week operation targeting online content linked to “The Com,” a loosely organized network of nihilistic violent extremist groups. […]
