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This week's cybersecurity updates highlight several key threats and trends. A vulnerability in the abandoned updater for Popcorn Time (CVE-2026-30612) has been neutralized after potentially exposing millions of PCs to SYSTEM-level code execution. The rise of AI in open-source projects has introduced concerns, with a survey indicating that maintainers are overwhelmed by low-quality AI contributions, leading to an r/opensource ban on AI projects. Additionally, forgotten AI agents pose risks by retaining access to sensitive company data, with 76% of them still holding credentials. Fraud involving synthetic identities has surged, exposing U.S. lenders to $2.4 billion in losses. Meanwhile, efforts to secure DNS against quantum decryption attacks are accelerating, reflecting an ongoing commitment to future-proofing cybersecurity measures.
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New nvi packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue.
Microsoft has released the KB5075039 Windows Recovery Environment update for Windows 10 to fix a long-standing issue that prevented some users from accessing the Recovery environment. [...]
The author of a new study told CyberScoop he's "very worried,” describing deanonymization capabilities of AI as a “large scale invasion of privacy.”
The post LLMs are getting better at unmasking people online appeared first on CyberScoop.
3 min readLegal AI solutions provider LexisNexis has confirmed a massive breach of its AWS environment According to reports, initial access was gained by exploiting the “React2Shell” vulnerability in an unpatched React frontend application – a flaw the company had reportedly left unaddressed for...
Think before you download OpenClaw, the AI agent that can manage just about anything, is risky all by itself, but now fake installers for it are wreaking havoc. Users who searched Bing’s AI results for “OpenClaw Windows” were directed to a malicious GitHub repository that delivered information steal...
Password management software provider LastPass is warning users of a phishing campaign targeting its users with fake unauthorized account access alerts. [...]
Security teams want lower MTTR, but flaws persist. How to use automation vs. orchestration to reduce risk effectively? Almost all security teams want to reduce their Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR). And for good reason: research from 2024 found that it takes an average of 4.5 months to remediate criti...
Your SOC can't triage every alert — the math proves it. See why 75% of alerts go uninvestigated and how AI-autonomous triage closes the gap.
The post 6 Minutes and a Prayer: The Math Your SOC Doesn’t Want You to See appeared first on D3 Security.
The post 6 Minutes and a Prayer: The Math Your SOC Do...
Session 14D: Autonomous Vehicles
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ningfei Wang (University of California, Irvine), Shaoyuan Xie (University of California, Irvine), Takami Sato (University of California, Irvine), Yunpeng Luo (University of California, Irvine), Kaidi Xu (Drexel University), Qi Alfr...
Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.
The software that moves money, processes trades, and manages accounts is among the most scrutinized code on earth. Yet even in highly regulated financial environments, a vulnerability persists that traditional perimeter security cannot address: the integrity of the code itself between development a...
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
David Greene: Shin, please introduce yourself to the Speaking Freely community.
 Shin Yang: My name is Shin Yang. I am a queer writer with a legal background and experience in product management. I am the steward of Lezismore, an independent, s...
*This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
David Greene: Shin, please introduce yourself to the Speaking Freely community.
 Shin Yang: My name is Shin Yang. I am a queer writer with a legal background and experience in product management. I am the steward of Lezismore, an independent, s...
Several security issues were fixed in GIMP.
AI. Automation. Zero Trust.
They dominate every security strategy document. But there’s a truth sitting underneath all three: none of them work without deep, trustworthy visibility.
You can’t continuously verify identities without knowing how they behave. You can’t train...
Security teams aren’t drowning because the threats improved. They’re drowning because the visibility got worse.
The October 2025 commissioned Forrester Consulting study conducted on behalf of NETSCOUT surfaces a problem that every analyst already knows: 61% of survey respon...
Cisco has released security updates to patch two maximum-severity vulnerabilities in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. [...]
A previously undocumented set of 23 iOS exploits named "Coruna" has been deployed by multiple threat actors in targeted espionage campaigns and financially motivated attacks. [...]
Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of passwords.
A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.