October 17, 2026
DSA-6569-1 apache2 – security update
Inbox flooded with sign-up messages? Email bombing explained
If you’re suddenly being overwhelmed with sign-up emails, it could very well be a sign of something more serious
October 17, 2026
Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
Late Sunday night, a still-unknown cybercriminal or group hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery [...]
October 17, 2026
Open Source Security Signals | Q3 2026
Vulnerabilities are easy to count. Meaningful risk is harder to measure.Open source has become the foundation of modern software because it works. Shared [...]
October 17, 2026
Explore Secure Linux Hosting Options with RoseHosting’s Management Benefits
Linux prevails as the most popular OS among hosting providers – and for good reason. Linux is secure by design, cost-efficient, compatible with the [...]
October 17, 2026
SUSE 15 SP7 Kernel RT Important Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities 2026-4708-1
An update that solves two vulnerabilities can now be installed.
October 17, 2026
Fedora 45 Kernel Updates Important Fixes FEDORA-2026-e96bbfedfe
October 16, 2026
Fedora 45 NetworkManager Update NM-fortisslvpn and NM-vpnc Removal
October 16, 2026
What Is a Hypervisor? How It Works and Where Isolation Can Fail
A hypervisor creates and runs virtual machines, or VMs.
October 16, 2026
Debian LTS DLA-4840-1 jq Important Memory Issues and CVE-2026-32316
October 16, 2026
Debian Apache2 Important HTTP Issues Denial of Service 2026-6569-1
October 16, 2026
SUSE ImageMagick Important DoS Issues Fix Advisory 2026-4691-1
October 16, 2026
DSA-6564-1 jpeg-xl – security update
October 16, 2026
DSA-6563-1 mutt – security update
October 16, 2026
Fedora 43 log4net Denial of Service Alert FEDORA-2026-588bc7e01c
October 16, 2026
Fedora 43 Syncthing Update 2.1.6 Security Advisory 2026-a5b9928f10
October 16, 2026
Fedora 43 WordPress 6.9.10 Security Advisory 2026-e0ebe50146
October 16, 2026
Fedora 43 OpenSSL 3.5.9 Security Notice CVE-2026-93eed17997
October 16, 2026
Fedora 44 qt5-qtbase Fix for Denial of Service CVE-2026-19248
October 16, 2026
Fedora 44 SDL3_image Update DoS Risk Advisory FEDORA-2026-2b8ae366f4
October 16, 2026
Fedora 44 NAnt Important Log4net DoS Risk Advisory 2026-0bf84c3130
October 16, 2026
Rocky Linux 10 rpcbind Important Remote DoS Vuln RLSA-2026-83561
October 16, 2026
Rocky Linux 9 Kernel Important Security Update RLSA-2026-83156
October 16, 2026
Rocky Linux libsoup Important Heap Overflow Vuln RLSA-2026-83384
October 16, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-83544 Grafana Important Plugin Issue
October 16, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 rpcbind Important Denial of Service RLSA-2026-83563
October 16, 2026
openSUSE Tumbleweed QEMU Moderate Multiple Issues 2026-12049-1
October 16, 2026
openSUSE Tumbleweed Qsnapper Moderate Security Fixes 2026-12050-1
October 16, 2026
openSUSE python313-urllib3 Moderate Security Advisory 2026-12045-1
October 16, 2026
Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame
The October 2026 Windows security update may break networking for some customers who are still clinging to long-deprecated NTLMv1 security. A seemingly [...]
October 16, 2026
Oracle Linux 8 Wireshark Moderate DoS Fix Advisory ELSA-2026-83657
October 16, 2026
Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts
The US’ bankruptcy courts are currently down owing to what officials are calling a “cybersecurity incident.” The Administrative Office of the US [...]
October 16, 2026
Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough to avoid a $1.2B fine
Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls were lacking. The [...]
October 16, 2026
MDR vs EDR vs SOC: What You’re Actually Buying in 2026
October 16, 2026
Thief snatches school snapper’s SD cards in smash & grab
An old-fashioned smash-and-grab job on a photographer’s vehicle threatens the security of pupils’ data as a UK secondary school says it faces a potential [...]
October 16, 2026
The $690 billion cloud spending spree
Every quarter, I look at the capital expenditure numbers coming out of the major cloud providers, and every quarter, they manage to surprise me. This time, [...]
October 16, 2026
Pop the champagne, Python 3.15 is here!
The best Python yet isn’t just faster than before. It’s also smarter at telling you what’s wrong, better at letting you profile applications, and loaded [...]
October 16, 2026
Cyberattack AIs must be trained only on air-gapped systems, hundreds of AI researchers say
Current security procedures for training AI models are inadequate, hundreds of AI researchers have warned governments and the AI community. They are [...]
October 16, 2026
User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it
Change is constant, but The Register likes to keep some things the same – such as using Friday mornings to bring you a new installment of On Call, the [...]
October 16, 2026
Mageia 10 gpsd Important Code Injection Fix CVE-2026-60122
October 16, 2026
Mageia libX11 Important Buffer Overflow Issues CVE-2026-88806
October 16, 2026
Debian SPIP Important Remote Code Execution Risk DSA-6565-1
October 16, 2026
SUSE Mutt Important Heap Overflow Fix Advisory 2026-4685-1
October 16, 2026
NGINX Vulnerability Fixes Require More Than a Version Check
NGINX has patched flaws that could let request data bypass a size limit or allow an encrypted session to be forged.
October 16, 2026
What Is an X.509 Certificate, and Why Can TLS Libraries Disagree?
An X.509 certificate names an identity and its public key; libraries can disagree over whether the issuer was allowed to certify that name.
October 16, 2026
TypeSafe’s Jev ‘even more susceptible to attack’ than LLMs, says security vendor
Although the Jev model rolled out last month by TypeSafe claims to have significant advantages over traditional LLMs, a security report published Wednesday [...]
October 16, 2026
Curl Vulnerability Can Let a Malicious Server Run Code During Uploads
A curl vulnerability can let a malicious upload server run commands on the computer sending it data.
October 16, 2026
DSA-6568-1 linux – security update
October 16, 2026
DSA-6567-1 cifs-utils – security update
October 16, 2026
DSA-6566-1 expat – security update
October 16, 2026
DSA-6565-1 spip – security update
October 16, 2026
Targeted Ads Used to Infect Al Jazeera Devices with Candiru Spyware
October 15, 2026
Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters
Despite the hype around AI agents interacting with websites, few sites bother to supply dedicated reading material for visiting bots. And occasionally, the [...]
October 15, 2026
Debian Mutt Important DoS Arbitrary Code Execution DSA-6563-1
October 15, 2026
Researchers warned attackers could ‘defrost the food’ months before French supermarkets got hit
Security researchers warned about exploitable vulnerabilities in refrigeration controllers months – and in one case, more than a year – before [...]
October 15, 2026
Ubuntu 22.04 Go Important Network Access Escalation CVE-2026-39821
October 15, 2026
Debian Chromium Critical Security Issues Code Execution DSA-6562-1
October 15, 2026
Medicare scam calls, texts and ads: What to watch for this Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safe
October 15, 2026
SUSE iperf Important Denial of Service Memory Issues 2026-4678-1
October 15, 2026
SUSE libXtst Important Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability 2026-24145-1
October 15, 2026
SUSE Alloy Significant Security Advisory 2026-24148-1 Released
October 15, 2026
SUSE jackson-annotations Important Security Fix 2026-24149-1
October 15, 2026