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Firefox recently added integrated AI support — a generally poorly received move among many Firefox users — that includes an AI chatbot integration for interacting with web pages. Florian Port …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Stealing Email with AI, AMD Nerfs Chips, the World Cup Nearly Rickrolled, and GPSD Bugs
Starting on June 11, 2026, the Arch User Repository (AUR) was targeted by malware which rapidly compromised over 1,500 packages. The AUR repository allows for abandoned community packages to be …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Arch AUR, Steam Marketplace, WordPress All Face Issues, Taco-Themed Coding, and Mythos Makes National News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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