August 13, 2026
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Kernel Important Flaw Escalation CVE-2026-43503
August 13, 2026
Debian PostgreSQL DSA-6438-1 Multiple Security Issues Detected
August 13, 2026
DSA-6435-1 spip – security update
August 13, 2026
Routing Security in Practice: Detecting BGP Hijacks and RPKI-Invalid Announcements
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is still trust-based. In the past, a router would announce it originated a block of address space, and its neighbors would [...]
August 13, 2026
Debian 12 DLA-4739-1 Chromium Important Security Flaws Fixed
August 13, 2026
Visual Studio Code 1.133 brings flexibility to Claude sessions
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its code editor that brings more flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions. The update also [...]
August 13, 2026
Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls
AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes wrong
August 13, 2026
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back
Donald Trump is allowing government agencies to contract private cybersecurity companies to carry out operations against cyber-enabled transnational [...]
August 13, 2026
The backup Microsoft never promised you
Confidence in an organization’s cyber recovery capabilities deserves scrutiny. If a ransomware attack disables the SaaS data tenanted in the [...]
August 13, 2026
eBPF Security Logs May Show the Wrong File or Command, New Study Warns
A Linux security tool can catch a system call and still record the wrong thing.
August 13, 2026
Linux Audit Can Log a Syscall but Miss the Flag That Explains It
Linux Audit can tell defenders that a system call ran while leaving out the setting that explains what the call did.
August 13, 2026
Databricks acquires Electric to bring local Postgres databases to agentic apps
Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that brings WebAssembly-based Postgres databases into application environments, for an undisclosed sum, in an [...]
August 13, 2026
Linux Security Roundup Privilege Escalation DoS Code Execution August 2026
This week’s Linux security updates cover several areas administrators cannot afford to overlook. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, and other [...]
August 13, 2026
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon’s charity data
Beacon, a CRM provider for charities and nonprofits, says an AWS access key “potentially exposed in public JavaScript build artifacts” is the [...]
August 13, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-54247 Kernel-rt Medium Denial of Service
August 13, 2026
MCP didn’t remove sessions. It handed them to the model
A few years ago, I helped move an application off sticky sessions so we could scale behind an ordinary round-robin load-balancer. On paper it was an [...]
August 13, 2026
Why AI models need a real-time web intelligence layer
A growing sentiment in tech is that large AI model providers will eventually replace traditional software vendors. The argument makes some sense. If a [...]
August 13, 2026
Relief from the bookkeeping of change management
It’s an idle Tuesday afternoon. You’re in hour three of change management calls to get a CostCenter tag update approved for a production change. Only [...]
August 13, 2026
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results
PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight others’ security failures. Hopefully, there’s a lesson in all this, but it could [...]
August 13, 2026
Debian DSA-6433-1 xdg-dbus-proxy Important Policy Bypass
August 13, 2026
Gentoo FreeType Normal Info Leak Multiple Issues GLSA-202608-02
August 13, 2026
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find
Researchers from Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found processors made by China’s Loongson have leaky caches that attackers could [...]
August 13, 2026
Fedora 43 cri-o 1.34.11 Denial of Service Fix CVE-2026-34986
August 13, 2026
Fedora 44 apr-util 1.6.5 Denial of Service CVE-2026-32327
August 13, 2026
SUSE gzip Moderate Buffer Overflow Vulnerability ID 2026-3592-1
August 13, 2026
DSA-6436-1 chromium – security update
August 13, 2026
DSA-6437-1 apr-util – security update
August 13, 2026
Lovable reaches $13.3B valuation as it adds Cerebras, enterprise tools
Vibe-coding website company Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The company also recently announced a [...]
August 12, 2026
‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency
Suspected Chinese cyber operatives used publicly available AI tools to compromise Taiwanese government systems before expanding the attack to its nuclear [...]
August 12, 2026
SUSE Gzip Moderate Buffer Overflow Security Advisory 2026-3590-1
August 12, 2026
SUSE Kernel Important Fix for 59 Vulnerabilities 2026-3593-1
August 12, 2026
SUSE Kernel Important Security Update Advisory 2026-3595-1
August 12, 2026
DSA-6431-1 openjdk-25 – security update
August 12, 2026
Ubuntu Linux Kernel Critical Update Advisory USN-8630-1
August 12, 2026
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible
If you thought that the famous Spectre security vulns were a relic of 2018, think again. Certain RISC-V chips are still very much subject to this [...]
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 Kernel Important Bug Fix Vuln ELSA-2026-53330
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-34911 Kernel Important Bug Fixes
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 9 libarchive Moderate Update ELSA-2026-52674
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 9 Pipewire Important CVE-2026-5674 Advisory
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 9 Kernel Important Security Vuln ELSA-2026-500162
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 8 Ruby Important Bug Fix Advisory ELSA-2026-50728
August 12, 2026
Oracle Linux 8 Java 1.8.0 Important Update ELSA-2026-42877
August 12, 2026
Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows
Nightmare Eclipse, the serial zero-day hunter who has an axe to grind with Microsoft, published a new Defender zero-day, ShieldBreak, that apparently [...]
August 12, 2026
Microsoft rolls out .NET 11 Preview 7
Microsoft has announced the seventh preview release of the .NET 11 open source developer platform, with improvements ranging from tiered compilation for [...]
August 12, 2026
New Linux Private Futex Race Can Trigger Kernel Use-After-Free
A proposed Linux kernel patch addresses a private-futex race that a recent security fix left unresolved. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim found that a rare [...]
August 12, 2026
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in
Uber Freight says it is investigating a “data security incident” days after the Helix extortion group listed the company on its data leak site [...]
August 12, 2026
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak
The UK’s criminal records office, ACRO, has escaped a fine and received a regulatory reprimand after security failings potentially exposed highly [...]
August 12, 2026
CodeRabbit targets AI-generated code overload with Agentic Change Management
CodeRabbit is expanding its AI-powered Code Review platform into what it calls “Agentic Change Management” by adding new capabilities targeted at helping [...]
August 12, 2026
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim’s security tools – and broke their own encryptor
An Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s computer into Safe Mode to kill its security tools – and in the process sabotaged their own malware when [...]
August 12, 2026
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground
British Transport Police is expanding its trial of live facial recognition (LFR) to the London Underground, despite concerns about privacy and mistaken [...]
August 12, 2026