This Week in Security: Microsoft on Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux on ARM, and FreeBSD Joins the File Cache Club

Supply chain attacks continue, with Microsoft’s own open source Azure repositories being automatically disabled by GitHub following a compromise of the packages by the Miasma worm. OpenSourceMalware reports that the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Microsoft on Microsoft, Register Your Domains, Linux on ARM, and FreeBSD Joins the File Cache Club

This Week in Security: Messing with AI, 7Zip and Notepad++ Vulnerabilities, HTTP2 Bomb, and More

With the rise of AI coding assistants continuing apparently unabated, some project maintainers have begun striking back. Ars Technica reports on projects putting hostile directions into the AGENTS.md file, or …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Messing with AI, 7Zip and Notepad++ Vulnerabilities, HTTP2 Bomb, and More

This Week in Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, and FreeBSD Joins the Club you Don’t Want to Join

Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, and FreeBSD Joins the Club you Don’t Want to Join

This Week in Security: AI Generated Reports, More AI Generated Reports, GitHub Chaos, and More Linux Vulnerabilities

Google’s Project Zero demonstrates a new zero-click exploit for the Pixel 10 phones, showing a full escalation from remote to kernel without user interaction. During the investigation Project Zero found …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: AI Generated Reports, More AI Generated Reports, GitHub Chaos, and More Linux Vulnerabilities

This Week in Security: Android Exposes ADB, ShinyHunters Get Paid, Robot Dogs, and More

Google has patched an Android ADB bug in the May security patch set. If you have a Pixel phone you should already have the patches, and most other major manufacturers …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Android Exposes ADB, ShinyHunters Get Paid, Robot Dogs, and More

This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and a …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, and Backdoored Tools

This Week in Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, and Stuxnet before Stuxnet was Cool

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local privileges escalations are never good, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: State Malware, State Hardware Bans, and Stuxnet before Stuxnet was Cool

This Week in Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, and Hacks that Could Have Been Worse

The author of the BlueHammer exploit, which was released earlier this month and addressed in the last Patch Tuesday, continues to be annoyed with the responses from the Microsoft security …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Annoyed Researchers, Dangling DNS, and Hacks that Could Have Been Worse

This Week in Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, and a Very Full Patch Tuesday

CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugins by allowing an empty request body. Present since 2024, this bug was caused by a previous fix to the auth workflow. In …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, and a Very Full Patch Tuesday

This Week in Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, and SCADA was IOT Before IOT was Cool

Rowhammer attacks have been around since 2014, and mitigations are in place in most modern systems, but the team at gddr6.fail has found ways to apply the attack to current-generation GPUs. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Flatpak Fixes, Android Malware, and SCADA was IOT Before IOT was Cool