Cybersecurity

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Rising Cyber Threats Drive SMB Security Spending

Small and medium-sized businesses are significantly increasing cybersecurity budgets due to mounting digital threats and the adoption of AI, moving…

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Steam Controller charger nearly caused a fire for one owner

A Reddit user reported that the metal contacts on the Steam Controller's charging puck caused a fire hazard by short-circuiting…

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SonicWall VPN Hackers Bypass MFA Due to Incomplete Patches

Threat actors exploited incomplete patches for CVE-2024-12802 on SonicWall Gen6 SSL-VPN appliances to bypass multi-factor authentication, using brute-forced credentials to…

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WordPress 7.0 Security Risk: AI API Keys Exposed

A security flaw in WordPress 7.0 exposes AI API keys via the browser's autofill feature, displaying them as plain text…

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Palantir Hack Week Adds New ICE Software Controls

Palantir held a spring hack week to address employee unease over its DHS and ICE contracts by developing new oversight…

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5 red flags: How AI tricks you into fake payments

AI-accelerated scams using social engineering tactics have become the fastest growing source of consumer harm, with fraudsters manipulating victims into…

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Device Security Must Share the Load Beyond Identity

Identity verification alone is no longer sufficient for security, as AI-powered phishing, credential theft, and session hijacking allow attackers to…

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4chan’s ‘Wizards’ Nudify Women on Demand

On 4chan's /r/ board, anonymous users request and create deepfake nude images of women from publicly available photos, with skilled…

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Hacked GitHub via tainted VS Code extension

GitHub confirmed a security breach after TeamPCP infiltrated its internal repositories via a compromised VS Code extension installed by an…

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Hackers Poison Open Source Code at Unprecedented Scale

A cybercriminal group called TeamPCP has transformed software supply chain attacks into an almost weekly occurrence, poisoning hundreds of open…

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CypherLoc Scareware Has Targeted Millions of Users, Researchers Warn

Since early 2026, researchers have tracked approximately 2.8 million attacks from the CypherLoc scareware strain, which locks browsers and directs…

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Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Surpass Credentials

Vulnerability exploitation has overtaken compromised credentials as the most common initial breach vector for the first time in nearly 20…

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Discord rolls out end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls for all users

Discord has enabled end-to-end encryption for all voice and video calls by default, ensuring that no one, including Discord itself,…

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GitHub Confirms 3,800 Repos Breached via Malicious VSCode Extension

A GitHub employee's device was compromised after installing a malicious VS Code extension, leading to approximately 3,800 internal repositories being…

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Microsoft fixes YellowKey BitLocker bypass flaw (CVE-2026-45585)

Microsoft is developing a patch for CVE-2026-45585 ("YellowKey"), a BitLocker bypass vulnerability requiring physical access that affects Windows 11 and…

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Translate Cyber Risk into Boardroom Dollars

Cybersecurity investment has been skewed toward technical controls while undervaluing people, processes, and organizational dynamics, leading to a focus on…

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CVE Lite CLI: Open-Source Dependency Vulnerability Scanner

CVE Lite CLI, now an OWASP Incubator Project, shifts dependency vulnerability scanning from late-stage CI pipelines to the developer's terminal,…

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Meta and Google mine data from workplace tracking apps

A new Columbia Law School study found that nine popular employee monitoring tools ("bossware") all shared sensitive user data, including…

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GitHub’s survival at stake under Microsoft

Microsoft's 2019 acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion was met with mixed reactions, but nearly eight years later, the platform…

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International Space Station Reports New Leak

The Russian segment of the International Space Station has resumed leaking air into space due to microscopic structural cracks, a…

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