July 30, 2026
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages
Note to privacy-conscious vandals: If you’re going to destroy Flock license plate readers, make sure you also take out the other CCTV cameras in the [...]
July 30, 2026
Critical Ruflo flaw lets attackers hijack AI agents through exposed MCP bridge
A critical vulnerability in the open-source AI agent platform Ruflo could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of enterprise AI environments by [...]
July 30, 2026
New Databricks tool uses AI agents to rewrite legacy SQL at scale
Databricks is adding an agentic code conversion capability to its Lakebridge toolkit, using Genie Code to provide its new customers another way to move [...]
July 30, 2026
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook
The Russian espionage crew that turned simply reading an email into a security risk has expanded beyond Zimbra, with Proofpoint saying it’s now [...]
July 30, 2026
How AI can improve site reliability engineering
One percent of AI-active developers now generate 46 times more AI-written lines of code per day than the median active user, according to the Cursor [...]
July 30, 2026
Shipping an MCP test agent: The boring parts nobody demos
The demo videos always end at the same moment. A figma frame turns into a passing test in twelve minutes. Someone in the room says the word “productivity.” [...]
July 30, 2026
AI agents need security regression testing, not another checklist
AI agents are being connected to real systems faster than most organizations are learning how to secure them. That should concern us. The first wave of AI [...]
July 30, 2026
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we show you how not to use your computer or your network. In this week’s fable of [...]
July 30, 2026
Excuses like ‘AI did it’ don’t exist in the eyes of the law
The OpenAI rogue agent behind the Hugging Face hack accessed four accounts on four services, according to updated company disclosures about the intrusion. [...]
July 30, 2026
Fedora 44 Squid 7.6 Memory Fix Advisory 2026-e6bbab8aa8
July 30, 2026
Visual Studio Code 1.131 zeroes in on subagents
Microsoft has shipped Visual Code 1.131, an update to its code editor with improvements for monitoring subagents, dictation, and Markdown editing. Released [...]
July 30, 2026
DSA-6404-1 expat – security update
July 30, 2026
Microsoft updates MCP C# SDK for stateless MCP
Microsoft has released MCP C# SDK v2.0, a major update of the company’s official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients. Unveiled July [...]
July 29, 2026
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
The guardrails that prevent closed-source, frontier models from aiding threat actors have turned into handcuffs that prevent those bots from helping to [...]
July 29, 2026
Oracle simplifies migrating legacy databases off IBM mainframes with support for EBCDIC
Oracle on Tuesday described new EBCDIC character set compatibility features in Oracle AI Database for customers transitioning from legacy databases on IBM [...]
July 29, 2026
JDK 27: The new features of Java 27
Java Development Kit 27, an Oracle-driven, planned update to standard Java, is set to reach its initial release candidate (RC) stage on August 6. This [...]
July 29, 2026
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
UPDATED Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in [...]
July 29, 2026
Detecting Web Shell Activity on Linux Using Behavioral Clues
Although its main website is loading, a production Linux server can host an active command-and-control gateway without any errors that can be seen. If you [...]
July 29, 2026
Why Automation Breaks When Visual Data Is Treated as an Afterthought
Most automation projects don’t fail with dramatic outages; they fail through a slow erosion of trust.
July 29, 2026
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
Security researchers at Tenable suspect the Iran-linked faux hacktivist outfit CyberAv3ngers was behind the cyberattack that disrupted more than 30 [...]
July 29, 2026
Substituting IP address evaluation with hardware-rooted sovereign zero trust
The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent [...]
July 29, 2026