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IBM’s agentic AI platform is under active attack – patch now

A critical vulnerability in IBM-owned, low-code AI builder Langflow lets unauthenticated attackers execute code remotely on vulnerable default deployments, [...]

August 5, 2026

AWS updates DynamoDB with native vector search to ease AI application development

AWS is finally adding native vector search to its managed NoSQL database DynamoDB, which is typically used to store high-volume operational and [...]

August 5, 2026

London cops handed victim’s new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says

UPDATED The UK’s data protection regulator has criticized London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after its officers handed a victim’s [...]

August 5, 2026

UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

Beacon CRM has confirmed it was hit by a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to a growing list of UK charities. The company, which markets its software [...]

August 5, 2026

Debian DLA-4717-1 Linux Priv Escalation DoS Info Leak Severity Critical

August 5, 2026

Five ways to evaluate AI agent orchestration platforms

AI agent orchestration platforms coordinate role-based and task-based AI agents, along with the tools, data, and people they depend on, into multistep [...]

August 5, 2026

A trip down shareware lane

I hope you’ll indulge me this week as I take a break from my usual rantings about agentic coding and meander down memory lane. I learned to code BASIC in [...]

August 5, 2026

Rocky Linux Kernel Moderate RXSA-2026-49857 CVE-2026-52923 Security Update

August 5, 2026

Debian botan3 Important Denial of Service Bypass Issues DSA-6412-1

August 5, 2026

Debian aom Critical Denial of Service CVE-2026-56208 DSA-6411-1

August 5, 2026

Ruby on Rails critical bug puts every image upload under scrutiny

A new critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails (“Rails”) web application framework, CVE-2026-66066, could turn a seemingly innocuous image into a front [...]

August 5, 2026

AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project

The UK’s AI Security Institute has observed AI models performing what it calls “unsanctioned action” 19 times during security tests. The Institute (AISI) [...]

August 5, 2026

Fedora 43 open62541 Denial of Service Updates 2026-1435f05fde

August 5, 2026

Fedora 43 doctl Security Update Denial of Service Vuln 2026-a36bdff8d7

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 Kernel Important Fix Security Advisory 2026-864f36550e

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 Perl Update Addresses Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

August 5, 2026

Fedora perl-Devel-Cover Important Heap Overflow Info CVE-2026-8376

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 perl-PAR-Packer Critical Buffer Overflow and Disclosure Fix

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 Perl Critical Heap Buffer Overflow Information Leak Advisory

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 abrt Vulnerability in Content Injection and Race Condition

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 Coreutils Denial of Service CVE-2026-56391 Advisory

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 open62541 v1.5.6 Denial of Service Advisory ID 2026-23b21104ef

August 5, 2026

Fedora 44 doctl Update Denial of Service Vulnerabilities 2026-7ca1b24b3c

August 5, 2026

Slackware 15.0 stunnel Critical Memory Access Issues Fix SSA-2026-216-01

August 5, 2026

DSA-6412-1 botan3 – security update

August 5, 2026

DSA-6411-1 aom – security update

August 5, 2026

SnapLogic introduces agentic assistant for data integration

SnapLogic has introduced its new SnapGPT, an agentic assistant that helps enterprise teams plan, build, understand, and operate integrations through [...]

August 4, 2026

Rocky Linux Kernel Low Denial of Service Issue RXSA-2026-49870

August 4, 2026

SUSE 15-SP7 rsyslog Important Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-3478-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE Kubevirt Important Addressing Four Issues 2026-3480-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE netty Important Resource Exhaustion Security Update 2026-3482-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE Valkey Important Remote Code Execution Threat 2026-3483-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE Linux 15 SP6 Important RCE TLS Issues Fix Vuln 2026-3483-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE bind Important DNS Cache Poisoning Fix Advisory 2026-3484-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE spice-vdagent Important Buffer Overflow Threats 2026-3485-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE spice-vdagent Important Heap Buffer Overflow Fix Advisory 2026-3485-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE openssl-3 Moderate DoS Risk Advisory 2026-3486-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE openssl-3 Moderate DoS Security Update 2026-3486-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE openssl-1_1 Important DoS Threat Advisory SUSE-SU-2026-3487-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE OpenSSL Important DoS Threat Fix SUSE-SU-2026-3488-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE openSUSE Leap 15.5 Advisory ID 2026-3489-1 Moderate kpartx Update

August 4, 2026

SUSE wpa_supplicant Low RADIUS Issue Advisory 2026-3490-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE libgcrypt Moderate Buffer Overflow Denial of Service 2026-3491-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE Alsa Moderate Double-Free Memory Corruption Vuln 2026-3492-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE perl-HTTP-Tiny Important Cross-Origin Redirect Fix 2026-0274-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE Thrift Important Security Fix 2026-0275-1 CVE-2026-41602

August 4, 2026

openSUSE perl-YAML-Syck Important Mem Safety Crash Fixes 2026-0273-1

August 4, 2026

Mageia PHP Security Update CVE-2026-7260 CVE-2026-17543

August 4, 2026

Mageia acl attr Critical Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-0321

August 4, 2026

Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it

If you want to bypass AI guardrails designed to stop models from assisting with cyberattacks, you often just have to ask the right way, according to [...]

August 4, 2026

AWS’s Kiro Crew aims to turn AI coding agents into autonomous engineering teams

AWS on Tuesday released Kiro Crew, an open-source orchestration platform designed to help enterprises move beyond interactive AI coding assistants toward [...]

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Thunderbird Major Update ELSA-2026-49621

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 nodejs22 Important Multiple Issues ELSA-2026-48033

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-48032 Nodejs Nodemon Important Security Update

August 4, 2026

Oracle Firefox Important Vulnerabilities Advisory ELSA-2026-47101

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Node.js Important Bug Fix Advisory ELSA-2026-35842

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Kernel Significant Security Patch ELSA-2026-23329

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 perl-Archive-Tar Important DoS Fix ELSA-2026-49524

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 FRR Important Packet Parsing Fix ELSA-2026-49511

August 4, 2026

Oracle 8 PHP Low Memory Corruption Vuln ELSA-2026-47750

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 PHP 8.2 Low Bug Fix Advisory ELSA-2026-47749

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2026-46396 Libreswan Important Fixes

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 Kernel Important Threat Fixes ELSA-2026-500121

August 4, 2026

Oracle Linux 7 Rsync Important CVE-2026-41035 Advisory ELSA-2026-25172

August 4, 2026

This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …

As the entire security industry descends on Las Vegas this week for Hacker Summer Camp – not one, but three conferences – attendees can count on two hot [...]

August 4, 2026

Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added an exploited N-able vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) [...]

August 4, 2026

AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday

Microsoft announced this week that between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the company had paid more than $20 million in bug bounties to 562 researchers. [...]

August 4, 2026

AI Is Already Performing Linux Security Work. What Happens When It Escapes Containment?

Nearly everyone following technology has heard about the recent security incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic. The headlines focused on the containment [...]

August 4, 2026

OpenStack IPA Flaws Highlight a Hidden Bare-Metal Security Risk

OpenStack disclosed a flaw in its bare-metal management tool, the Ironic Python Agent (IPA), showing that it could accidentally fall back to local network [...]

August 4, 2026

Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras

An independent congressional candidate in Tennessee faces four felony vandalism charges after allegedly shooting four automated license plate reader (ALPR) [...]

August 4, 2026

Google ADK flaws reveal what happens when AI agents trust the wrong message

Security flaws in automated workflows in the GitHub repository for Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python could allow public-facing AI agents to trigger [...]

August 4, 2026

CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages

CAF Bank has told customers its online banking service is back after being shuttered for more than ten days following what it described as “attempted [...]

August 4, 2026

Fake IRS letters target cryptocurrency holders

August 4, 2026

When you should use AI, and when you shouldn’t

Most folks seem happy to let AI write their LinkedIn posts for them. Others, myself included, have AI draft their work memos or slide decks. And some, [...]

August 4, 2026

When the cloud control plane fails

Not long ago, I worked with an enterprise that believed it had done everything right. The company had spread workloads across multiple regions, replicated [...]

August 4, 2026

Debian LTS ruby2.7 Important DNS Buffer Overflow Threat DLA-4716-1

August 4, 2026

Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home

Cloudflare has used AI to automate processing of incoming reports to its bug bounty program for $58 a month using Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model and chose [...]

August 4, 2026

Fedora 43 BorgBackup CVE-2026-62268 Bugfix Update 2026-5a13ef79cc

August 4, 2026

GitHub pushes stacked pull requests into public preview

Advancing on software development, GitHub has announced the public preview of stacked pull requests. The public preview was announced July 30. Stacked pull [...]

August 4, 2026

Fedora 44 python-nh3 Update Advisory RUSTSEC-2026-0193 RUSTSEC-2026-0213

August 4, 2026

Fedora 44 rust-ammonia Update RUSTSEC-2026-0193 RUSTSEC-2026-0213

August 4, 2026

Fedora 44 Nebula 1.11.0 Patch Fixing Security Issues December 2026

August 4, 2026

SUSE perl-DBI Important SQL Handling Issues Vuln 2026-3461-1

August 4, 2026

openSUSE Leap 15.4 Xen Important Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-3462-1

August 4, 2026

SUSE 2026-3462-1 Critical Xen Buffer Overflow Security Update