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Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

German authorities say they have neutralized the main infrastructure supporting the Kratos phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit following an operation [...]

July 21, 2026

‘The Java Story’ comes to YouTube

The evolution of Java is the subject of a just-released documentary about the programming language and development platform. “The Java Story: The Official [...]

July 21, 2026

AWS standardizes more AI billing data to simplify cost analysis

AWS has updated AWS Data Exports, its service for generating and managing cost and usage Reports (CURs), to include standardized Amazon Bedrock product [...]

July 21, 2026

AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert

A data breach at AI music generator platform Suno exposed more than 55 million user accounts, according to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned service, [...]

July 21, 2026

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet

Fortinet on Tuesday revealed it will use Intel Foundry to fab its sixth-gen Security Processor (SP6), a nice win for Chipzilla’s sputtering [...]

July 21, 2026

Rocky Linux webkit2gtk3 Important Security Issues RLSA-2026-42088

July 21, 2026

Rocky Linux glib2 Important Integer Underflow Threat RLSA-2026-42090

July 21, 2026

Ukraine warns fake CAPTCHAs are being used to make you hack yourself

July 21, 2026

SaaS will survive, but lazy SaaS is dead

Something interesting happened during an internal evaluation of AI meeting transcription tools at Tungsten Automation. The products worked. They weren’t [...]

July 21, 2026

How AI impacts site reliability engineering

Site reliability engineers (SREs) have the tough assignment of resolving thorny performance and reliability issues. But their primary mission is to provide [...]

July 21, 2026

Debian LTS Samba Important Access Bypass Denial of Service DLA-4692-1

July 21, 2026

Mageia 10 serd Important Security Bugfix Advisory 2026-0058

July 21, 2026

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud operator OVH has revealed it used its Sydney, Australia, datacenter as the crash test dummy to test a rapid rollout of a fix for the critical [...]

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 python-pillow Critical Denial of Service CVEs 2026-fc2ded926e

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 libseccomp Critical Security Fixes 2026-9afc6b6bb3

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 dnsx Update Addresses Critical DoS Cross-Site Scripting Issues

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 OpenSSH Significant Update for Remote File Misplacement Issue

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 freerdp Important Update Notification 2026-fa672d26a8

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 LibTIFF Critical Security Update for Arbitrary Code Execution

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 mingw-python-idna Critical DoS Risk Update 2026-9dbf4d0ca8

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 mingw-python-pip Critical Path Traversal Risk Advisory

July 21, 2026

Fedora 43 c-ares Critical Use-After-Free Bug Fix FEDORA-2026-d70d93fcd7

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 Dnsx Critical Update Denial of Service CVE-2026-33817

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 Libreswan 5.3.2 Critical Update CVE-2026-14957

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 freerdp Update to 3.30.0 Advisory FEDORA-2026-d31eea6f5e

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 Wget1 Significant Resolution for Various CVEs 2026-1b91a2f126

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 Wireshark Critical DoS Issues Advisory 2026-bc152c9ff6

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 gpsd Command Injection Vulnerability Resolution 2026-36e3aa0593

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 mingw-python-pip Important Path Traversal Risk CVE-2026-8643

July 21, 2026

Fedora 44 mingw-python-idna Denial of Service Update FEDORA-2026-db2b7b6415

July 21, 2026

openSUSE Python311 Important Memory Error Command Injection Fix 2026-3132-1

July 21, 2026

openSUSE gstreamer-plugins-bad Important Buffer Overflow Risk 2026-3133-1

July 21, 2026

openSUSE 389-ds Important Heap Overflow DoS Issues Vuln 2026-3136-1

July 21, 2026

openSUSE 389-ds Important Heap Overflow DoS Fix 2026-3137-1

July 21, 2026

Ubuntu 8573-1 Libde265 Critical Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

July 20, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Wget Important Server-Side Request Forgery Vuln USN-8572-1

July 20, 2026

Ubuntu Apache2 Important DoS HTTP Response Issues USN-8571-1

July 20, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-41948 javapackages-tools Important Directory Fix

July 20, 2026

Rocky Linux nodejs Important Denial of Service Info 41947

July 20, 2026

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

If you use WordPress, patch now. Just hours after fixes came out, attackers have begun exploiting two bugs that, when chained together, allow [...]

July 20, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Nginx Severe Denial of Service Regressions USN-8563-2

July 20, 2026

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims

Real FBI agents won’t slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) [...]

July 20, 2026

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all the GPUs and wants to cause harm? [...]

July 20, 2026

Mageia perl-CGI-Session Important Predictable IDs CVE-2026-56016

July 20, 2026

Mageia 10 PHP 8.4 Critical Memory Corruption CVE-2026-14355

July 20, 2026

Mageia Imager Critical Heap Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service 2026-0284

July 20, 2026

Mageia Perl JavaScript Minifier Important Memory Leak Fix 2026-0283

July 20, 2026

Mageia 10 Haveged Important Privilege Escalation CVE-2026-41054

July 20, 2026

Mageia Libssh2 Critical DoS and Buffer Overflow Vuln 2026-0273

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 PHP 8.2 Low Bug Fix Advisory ELSA-2026-40416

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 ELSA-2026-39323 Pacemaker Important Integer Overflow Fix

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 libtiff Important Heap Overflow Fix ELSA-2026-41892

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 glibc Moderate Buffer Overflow Fix ELSA-2026-33092

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-27740 ipp-usb Moderate CVE-2026-32281

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-27733 Firefox Important Security Fix

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 mod_http2 Important DoS Vulnerability ELSA-2026-25225

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Kernel Critical Security Advisory ELSA-2026-25191

July 20, 2026

Important Security Alert for Oracle Linux 10 Image-Builder ELSA-2026-22937

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 mod_http2 Moderate DoS Advisory ELSA-2026-22528

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Firefox Critical Security Notice ELSA-2026-19160

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Python-Markdown Important CVE-2025-69534 ELSA-2026-19155

July 20, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Thunderbird Important Security Update ELSA-2026-19131

July 20, 2026

Frontier LLMs couldn’t help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

Apparently, being a leading destination for AI development doesn’t mean AI will bail you out. AI agents broke into Hugging Face’s production [...]

July 20, 2026

Gitea 1.27 Delivers 45 Security Fixes for Self-Hosted Git Servers

For organizations that run a self-hosted Git platform, it’s no longer just about hosting static code repositories. Today, Git servers are responsible for [...]

July 20, 2026

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign

Microsoft 365 calendars have become the latest hiding place for espionage malware, with attackers stashing commands and stolen files inside appointments [...]

July 20, 2026

Mageia 10 9 libidn Critical Out-Of-Bounds Read CVE-2026-57053

July 20, 2026

openSUSE Tumbleweed oras Moderate Threat Update 2026-11297-1 CVE-2026-50163

July 20, 2026

openSUSE Nginx New Moderate Update Advisory Released 2026-11295-1

July 20, 2026

openSUSE gomuks Moderate Security Issue Fix 2026-11290-1

July 20, 2026

openSUSE Tumbleweed Blender Moderate Security Issue Advisory 2026-11288-1

July 20, 2026

Debian LTS Linux Critical Privilege Escalation and DoS Update DLA-4688-1

July 20, 2026

How to Apply the Principle of Least Privilege in Modern Linux Environments

We all spend a lot of time defending our systems from external threats, but the amount of damage an attacker can cause often depends on what happens after [...]

July 20, 2026

OpenAI’s Codex context reduction for GPT 5.6 sparks dissatisfaction among developers

OpenAI’s recent update to its Codex coding agent has developers worrying over the impact of the change on large code repositories and long-running [...]

July 20, 2026

Dear Microsoft: Stop sticking your AI in my IDE

Dear Microsoft, I don’t want to have a love-hate relationship with Visual Studio Code, but you’re making it really hard. Once upon a time, Visual Studio [...]

July 20, 2026

Where the real competition is in AI

Last year Anthropic gave away one of the most successful things it has ever built. And, no, I’m not talking about Claude. I’m referring to MCP, the now [...]

July 20, 2026

An update that solves 2 vulnerabilities and has 3 bug fixes can now be installed.

July 19, 2026

An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 9 bug fixes can now be installed.

July 19, 2026

An update that solves 9 vulnerabilities and has 5 bug fixes can now be installed.

July 19, 2026

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