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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals significant threats and trends. Bitdefender has identified preinstalled Android malware, "Midnight Mimosa," affecting cheap MediaTek devices in 150 countries, which engages in click fraud and botnet activities. Additionally, a malware incident at Nippon Columbia has compromised 8.7 million records of karaoke enthusiasts, showcasing the ongoing risks of data breaches. In infrastructure security, AI systems are increasingly being recognized for their potential to execute sophisticated attacks, raising alarms about preparedness. U.S. CISA has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with critical flaws in several applications, emphasizing the need for timely patching. Meanwhile, new insights into facial recognition vulnerabilities reveal risks even when individuals are partially obscured.
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California Governor Newsom has signed S.B. 524, a bill that begins the long process of regulating and imposing transparency on the growing problem of AI-written police reports. EFF supported this bill and has spent the last year vocally criticizing the companies pushing AI-generated police reports a...
Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.
Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year.
The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Flax Typhoon, which is also tracked as Ethe...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- Network drivers;
- Packet sockets;
- Network traffic control;
- VMware vSockets driver;
(CVE-2025-38477, CVE-2...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
Nathan E. Sanders and I will be giving a book talk on Rewiring Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on October 22, 2025, at noon ET.
Nathan E. Sanders and I will be speaking and signi...
ExCyTIn-Bench is Microsoft’s newest open-source benchmarking tool designed to evaluate how well AI systems perform real-world cybersecurity investigations.
The post Microsoft raises the bar: A smarter way to measure AI for cybersecurity appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
On August 11th, 2025, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability in Slider Revolution, a WordPress plugin that’s estimated to have more than 4,000,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an authenticated attacker, with contributor-level permissions o...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Legacy Windows protocols are still exposing organizations to credential theft, Resecurity found
A newly identified cybercrime group TA585 is running an advanced cyber operation distributing MonsterV2 malware
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
In a joint warning letter, UK ministers urged FTSE 350 CEOs to bolster cyber defenses
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
In episode 72 of The AI Fix, GPT-5's "secret sauce" turns out to be phrases from adult websites, Irish police beg TikTokers to stop faking AI home intruders, Jeff Bezos pitches gigawatt data centers in space, OpenAI rolls out Agent Kit for drag-and-drop agents, and a Chinese startup unveils the cree...