Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
There must have been red faces in the social media department of Ireland's police headquarters after two of its accounts were hijacked this week.
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A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and report...
Unit 42 details the top initial access vectors adversaries use to breach organizations, led by edge exploits, credential abuse and phishing
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Learn how to create a security incident log that supports GDPR records, ICO decisions, insurance claims, and credential access reviews.
Researchers have discovered a first-of-its-kind supply-chain vulnerability in OpenAI’s official skills repository.
OpenAI maintains an official GitHub repository of skills that teach AI agents how to work with various platforms and services. As an official skill, these comp...
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Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device. [...]
Researchers said the first known attack by Armory Castle, also known as UNC5221, occurred almost seven weeks ago. The threat group previously compromised Ivanti and Citrix customers.
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Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and ru...
PwnEscape (CVE-2026-99999), faille critique du noyau Linux, fait fuir la mémoire de l'hôte depuis une VM, jusqu'à l'évasion. Voici comment se protéger.
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google accou...
New whitepaper from Microsoft and NVIDIA helps enterprises manage open-weight AI model risks with a shared taxonomy, evaluations, and controls.
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Les inscriptions pour l'événement Cloud & Cyber Security Expo Paris 2026 sont désormais ouvertes. Obtenez votre badge gratuitement pour y participer.
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CVE-2026-93953 : une injection SQL dans Backuply, présent sur 600 000 sites WordPress, permet à un simple abonné de devenir administrateur. Mettez à jour.
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Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going
A chain of vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser could have enabled researchers to take control of one billion Windows machines worldwide — and it cost them just $40,000 in AI compute time to discover it.
Researchers at Xbow USA worked for six days on developing the ex...
The outage has stopped official bankruptcy notices nationwide since Oct. 9, with no cause or restoration date announced.
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Cybersecurity giant Proofpoint says it will acquire Miami-based data visibility and security company Varonis in an all-cash transaction worth $6.3 billion.