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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several critical threats and trends. A memory corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder affects multiple widely used applications, including Node.js, Python, and Envoy, posing risks of remote code execution. LiteLLM reported a serious incident where a leaked master key allowed attackers to hijack its GitHub release pipeline. In data breach news, Capcom suffered a breach exposing 11.7 million email addresses, while patient data was stolen in an attack on Point Vision. Additionally, the U.S. CISA highlighted actively exploited vulnerabilities in Collabora Online and Arista VeloCloud, urging immediate attention. Lastly, a new tool called Pulse has been released to help users interpret Windows event logs more clearly.
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who ordered the investigation, on Monday called the sprawling spyware operation spearheaded by the country’s previous ruling party “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history since the fall of communism.”
Researchers say small AI models could be capable of spreading across vulnerable smart devices within months.
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The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker cons...
No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other defenders of free speech are fighting back. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're talking about a key co...
Shahriyar Jalayeri and Mehrun P. Hunter discovered that U-Boot
incorrectly handled certain NFS READ and NFS READLINK responses. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a buffer overflow,
resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
(CVE-2026-74220, CVE-2026-74221)
Shah...
Several security issues were fixed in Bind.
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21.
I’m speaking at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 5 PM ET on Octo...
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ABB previously published an advisory warning about possible probing of a dynovaPRO vulnerability.
The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Issues 17 Advisories, Rockwell Fixes ArmorBlock Takeover Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The letter argues federal agencies should more rigorously test AI models for security threats and sandbox evasion, set new safety standards and lean into defensive AI.
The post Senators press Trump admin to rally federal government around AI safety, security appeared first on CyberScoop.
Digital evidence has evolved, and investigative tools must keep pace – discover how Semantics 21 helps investigators work faster, search smarter and maintain control without compromising professional judgement.
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. [...]
Matthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers.
I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the over-engineering cryptographers tend to...
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial res...
Multiple security issues have been found in the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code, sandbox escape, information disclosure, mitigation bypass or privilege escalation. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in
Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the SOGo groupware server, which could result in cross-site scripting, shell injection, password reset poisoning or SQL injection. For the stable distribution (trixie), this problem has been fixed in version 5.12.1-3+deb13u3.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenSSH.
Several security issues were fixed in curl.
It was discovered that missing validation of tar sources in the Buildstream software integration tool could allow to write files on the build host. For the stable distribution (trixie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.9-2+deb13u1.