August 19, 2026
DSA-6450-1 srt – security update
DSA-6449-1 swift – security update
August 19, 2026
Linux Identity, Privilege & Administrative Access
Access to a Linux system involves several connected decisions. The system must determine who or what is requesting access, verify that identity, decide [...]
August 19, 2026
ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home
Some ICE employees seemingly needed a reminder not to wear their Meta pervert glasses to work. Because only ICE can spy on ICE. Meta smart glasses are [...]
August 19, 2026
Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate
Surveillance tech company Flock has struggled with its public image for years, but the problem has become particularly acute in recent weeks. Its network [...]
August 19, 2026
Mageia 10 lsp-plugins Bug Fix Advisory Release 2026-0101 Update
August 19, 2026
Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover
Comcast has folded its Wi-Fi-based intruder detection feature into Xfinity Shield, a repackaged bundle of physical and cybersecurity offerings. The US [...]
August 19, 2026
Decoding Origin: Cursor’s GitHub rival that was launched during the latter’s outage
AI coding tools are increasingly becoming the place where developers write and modify software. SpaceX-owned Cursor now wants to bring code hosting into [...]
August 19, 2026
Fix for Test Failure in Debian LTS ruby-grape DLA-4706-2 Update
August 19, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 attr Medium Symlink Traversal Fix RLSA-2026-56133
August 19, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-56219 Python3 Important Security Issue
August 19, 2026
Rocky Linux 9 RLSA-2026-55856 .NET 9.0 Important Security Update
August 19, 2026
AI inference: Five best practices for successful AI applications
While some organizations are still getting started with their AI strategies, others are in pilot purgatory, with few experiments or proofs of concept [...]
August 19, 2026
Coding agents make mistakes. So what?
Regular readers will probably have figured out that I’m generally an optimist. I think things are always getting better, and the future of the human race [...]
August 19, 2026
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator
Australian aparthotel chain Quest has revealed it leaked customer data. A Reg reader kindly shared an email from the chain with the subject line “Important [...]
August 19, 2026
AI’s attribution problem gets worse as models scale
Diffusion models are becoming sophisticated enough that they can reproduce an image even when they don’t have access to the original. In a series of ‘what [...]
August 19, 2026
Fedora 43 Python 3.14.7 Security Advisory 2026-7f32bbb5b0
August 19, 2026
Fedora 43 libnfs Security Advisory CVE-2026-57918 CVE-2026-53689
August 19, 2026
Fedora 43 perl-Imager Important EXIF Decode Fix CVE-2026-19082
August 19, 2026
Fedora 44 libgit2 Update 1.9.7 Security Advisory 2026-86684eb696
August 19, 2026
Fedora 44 GitPython 3.1.59 Update Security Fixes 2026-166bfc4f18
August 19, 2026
Fedora Python 3.14.7 Important DoS Bypass Fix 2026-2c124fcf93
August 19, 2026
Fedora 44 lemonldap-ng 2.23.3 Security Update CVE-2026-19349
August 19, 2026
Fedora 44 perl-Imager Important EXIF Decoding Fix CVE-2026-19082
August 19, 2026
How to Recover Authentication Platforms After Cyberattacks in Linux Environments
When an authentication platform goes down, downstream applications go with it. Employees can’t sign in, customers get locked out, and scheduled jobs [...]
August 19, 2026
DSA-6451-1 firefox-esr – security update
August 19, 2026
OpenAI’s overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security
OpenAI on Tuesday said its decision to suspend model training work, implemented after unreleased, unsupervised AI models hacked HuggingFace, remains in [...]
August 18, 2026
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux Kernel Critical Issues Update USN-8636-2
August 18, 2026
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Kernel Security Update USN-8630-3
August 18, 2026
Accelerating AI innovation through open weights
Open-weight AI models are a big deal, as Nvidia and more than 200 other companies and organizations attested in their “Open Weights and American AI [...]
August 18, 2026
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments
Researchers affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that you can get payments out of certain expired contactless credit cards, a [...]
August 18, 2026
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux Kernel Security Advisory USN-8646-1
August 18, 2026
Ubuntu Linux Kernel Security Advisory USN-8643-1 Multiple Issues
August 18, 2026
DuckDB 2.0 coming this fall with client/server mode
DuckDB, the analytics database with high-end features in a single easily deployed binary, is due to release a major update, version 2.0, this fall. In a [...]
August 18, 2026
How QR-code phishing can slip past corporate security measures
Quishing has become a popular alternative to traditional phishing. Here’s how businesses can close the gap.
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux 8 Node.js Important Security Update ELSA-2026-54530
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux ELSA-2026-55858 .NET 10.0 Important Bug Fix
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 libssh Important Advisory ELSA-2026-55855
August 18, 2026
Oracle haproxy Important Buffer Overflow Fix ELSA-2026-55679
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 Nodejs Significant CVE Remedy ELSA-2026-55541
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 Bind Vital Security Announcement ELSA-2026-55437
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux curl Important Fix ELSA-2026-55432 CVE-2026-8927
August 18, 2026
Oracle Linux 9 libXfont2 Important CVE Fixes ELSA-2026-55447
August 18, 2026
CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug
CISA says attackers are exploiting a critical 2025 vulnerability in Ray, the widely used open source framework for scaling Python and machine-learning [...]
August 18, 2026
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
Apple has released a batch of vulnerability fixes for iPhones, iPads, and Macs, including an image-processing flaw that experts say has the hallmarks of a [...]
August 18, 2026
New Linux eBPF IDS Uses XDP to Block Network Attacks in Real Time
Researchers published a new Linux intrusion-detection architecture on Monday that handles network-flow analysis using XDP and eBPF. By shifting the [...]
August 18, 2026
Linux Security Foundations & Operations
A sustainable Linux security program depends on more than individual hardening settings, scanners, and monitoring tools. Those controls matter, but they [...]
August 18, 2026
Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
Researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into telling them how to hack the AI assistant – eventually tricking it into sending sensitive data to [...]
August 18, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-55764 Kernel Important Security Bug Fix
August 18, 2026
Gentoo Nginx High Multiple Code Execution Issues GLSA-202608-16
August 18, 2026
Gentoo PostgreSQL Critical Multiple Issues GLSA-202608-15
August 18, 2026
Gentoo GLSA-202608-14 X.Org X Server Multiple Vulnerabilities
August 18, 2026