Collaborate Disseminate
Ahmad Umar Agha is best known for posting a fake Associated Press tweet claiming President Obama was injured in a White House bombing.
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Open-source maintainers are so overwhelmed by AI-generated security reports that some have stopped accepting them. OpenAI’s Daybreak lead says the fix is higher-quality findings and far more coordination.
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A China-linked ransomware crew disabled the security tools at a critical infrastructure operator before it launched the encryptor. Most security budgets never priced that in.
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The private keys were so weak they could be guessed in under a second — and one of them was just the number 4.
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Once data is in use, encryption falls short. A tested approach that replaces sensitive values with realistic substitutes could make stolen information far less useful to hackers.
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The project overseeing the programming language is releasing patches Wednesday, with the internet racing to patch the 9.2 rated flaw.
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The confirmed and suspected targets include a university rector backing Serbia’s protests and a prosecutor who investigated a Trump-linked Belgrade development, weeks before parliamentary elections.
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The outage has stopped official bankruptcy notices nationwide since Oct. 9, with no cause or restoration date announced.
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The deal pairs the email security giant’s massive threat intelligence with Varonis’ visibility into corporate data, as both companies race to secure the AI agents now roaming enterprise networks.
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Researchers say the attacks have serious implications for the online advertising world, and regulators.
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