August 9, 2026
DSA-6422-1 chromium – security update
DSA-6421-1 pdns-recursor – security update
August 9, 2026
DSA-6420-1 pdns – security update
August 9, 2026
DSA-6419-1 dnsdist – security update
August 9, 2026
Why IT security’s future is more than just AI models
Much of the public discussion around AI and its impact on cybersecurity focuses almost exclusively on models, with some arguments calling for a central [...]
August 9, 2026
Fedora 44 Kernel 7.1.7 Security Update for CVE-2026-68480
Fedora has released kernel version 7.1.7 addressing CVE-2026-68480. Users can update using the dnf upgrade command, with packages signed by the Fedora [...]
August 9, 2026
Fedora 44 mingw-glib2 DoS Vulnern FEDORA-2026-2dfeac0818
August 9, 2026
Fedora 43 Kernel Critical CVE-2026-68480 Patch Advisory
August 9, 2026
Fedora 43 SeaMonkey Update 2.53.24 Advisory 2026-8d2a3de7da
August 9, 2026
Fedora 43 rabbitmq-server Important XSS DoS CVE-2026-44839
August 9, 2026
SUSE ffmpeg Important Denial of Service Vulnern 2026-3529-1
August 9, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-30129 Kernel Important Bug Fixes
August 9, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 Kernel Moderate Bug Fix ELSA-2026-49871
August 9, 2026
Oracle Linux 9 LibRaw Key Security Update for CVE-2026-51235
August 9, 2026
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn’t calling the CEO – it’s targeting the 46-year-old IT manager. [...]
August 9, 2026
DSA-6418-1 thunderbird – security update
August 8, 2026
DSA-6416-1 jq – security update
August 8, 2026
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Despite the popularity of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex, developers have plenty of complaints about AI coding tools. So researchers [...]
August 8, 2026
Rust preps improved borrow checker for stabilization
The Rust team has announced that it is enabling the Polonius Alpha borrow checker on nightly releases for testing. The team expects to fully stabilize [...]
August 8, 2026
DSA-6417-1 libheif – security update
August 8, 2026
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable’s leash
After acknowledging last month that unreleased AI models committed what for human perpetrators would be computer crimes, OpenAI now says it cannot rule out [...]
August 7, 2026
Water system controllers don’t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks
With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked – most likely by Iran – we have to get better at cyber defense, according to [...]
August 7, 2026
What we lose when every engineer can do everything
Four months ago, a front-end engineer on my team looking to make upgrades to a product or feature would have filed a ticket and waited for the [...]
August 7, 2026
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI
Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 20 percent in July, with UK firm Comparitech counting 799 incidents, up from 668 in June. Of those, 51 had been confirmed [...]
August 7, 2026
Beware cut-price AI services that read your every word
August 7, 2026
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands
N-able has confirmed attackers exploiting an N-central zero-day made it into customer networks, as the vendor pushes out a second mandatory hotfix just [...]
August 7, 2026
Moonshot’s Kimi AI model has also escaped from a test environment
Yet another AI model has escaped from a cybersecurity test lab: This time, it’s the Chinese company Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model on the run. Frontier Security [...]
August 7, 2026
Airtable joins Evernote, Brightcove, WeTransfer and AOL in Bending Spoons portfolio
Bending Spoons has snapped up Airtable to add to its portfolio of software companies, alongside AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove and Vimeo Airtable [...]
August 7, 2026
MIT boffins’ TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative execution attack at DEF CON 34 that uses precisely timed interrupts to bypass defenses against Spectre [...]
August 7, 2026
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder
A Scottish NHS trust is investigating a data breach concerning the medical records of a nine-year-old girl who died earlier this week and was named [...]
August 7, 2026
Detecting Persistence on Linux Hosts: A Security Playbook for Cron and systemd
If you manage Linux boxes long enough, you hit this exact wall. You spot a weird process eating CPU, kill it, wipe the script, and reset the user password. [...]
August 7, 2026
Snowflake attacker pleads guilty to hack of 165 companies’ data
A Canadian hacker has admitted being part of a group responsible for several major cyberattacks. Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty to being part of a [...]
August 7, 2026
DeepMind founder ascends to singular AI role at Google
Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, replacing Jeff [...]
August 7, 2026
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier’s Microsoft 365 account
US defense and aerospace supplier IEH Corporation ‘fessed up that a criminal managed to break into its Microsoft 365 mailbox in a filing with [...]
August 7, 2026
‘Asimov was right’ about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
EXCLUSIVE Don’t waste time worrying about AI models achieving sentience – they’re essentially already there, according to former US National [...]
August 7, 2026
Three concepts cloud architects overlook
After two decades of cloud architecture consulting, I see an unchanging pattern in enterprise deployments. Organizations approach me with unexpectedly high [...]
August 7, 2026
Mageia 10 9 Rootcerts Security Update Vuln MGASA-2026-0325
August 7, 2026
Mageia Python-Django Medium Exposure Issues Vuln 2026-0324
August 7, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-51075 GPSD Important Command Injection Fix
Oracle Linux has released an update for version 10, addressing CVE-2026-58459, which fixes a command injection vulnerability in gpsprof and includes [...]
August 7, 2026
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks’ products
China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has conducted a review of Palo Alto Networks’ products. The regulator’s announcement of its review says it’s needed [...]
August 7, 2026
Fedora 43 libXfont2 Important CVE Patch 2026-4f471dd34a
August 7, 2026