August 27, 2026
Mageia 10 opencpn-o-charts-plugin Bugfix Advisory 2026-0107
August 27, 2026
Mageia 10 Advisory php8.5-gmagick Module Conflict Fix 2026-0106
August 27, 2026
AI girlfriend review site’s secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks
PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we explore the frightening and amusing world of foolish infosec errors. This week, it’s all [...]
August 27, 2026
Omarchy distro gains serious backing
The controversial Omarchy distro is attracting both criticism and fans – and financial support, too. Omarchy is an opinionated respin of Arch Linux and a [...]
August 27, 2026
Rocky Linux 9 Golang Important DoS XSS Issues RLSA-2026-60304
August 27, 2026
Rocky Linux 8 kernel-rt Important Security Fixes RLSA-2026-59737
August 27, 2026
openSUSE Leap 16.0 gh Important Issues Patch 2026-21663-1
August 27, 2026
Ubuntu 24.04 openCryptoki Important Access Issues USN-8686-1
August 27, 2026
ATF responds to ‘major’ cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang’s claims
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said it’s responding to a “major” cybersecurity incident shortly after the Qilin ransomware [...]
August 27, 2026
Schrödinger’s backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
Schrödinger’s Cat, the famous 1935 thought experiment, imagines a cat that, for reasons rooted in quantum physics we need not dwell on here, is [...]
August 27, 2026
Linux Kernel Vulnerability News: Linux Security Roundup
Linux kernel vulnerability news dominated the security updates published from August 20 through August 27. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle Linux, [...]
August 27, 2026
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
The company behind three of the UK’s busiest airports says “a quantity” of data was stolen by an extortion group during a recent “cybersecurity [...]
August 27, 2026
AppArmor Credential Fix Prevents In-Hook Use-After-Free Risk
A Linux security hook should be able to check a task without invalidating the identity data that surrounding kernel code is still using. AppArmor broke [...]
August 27, 2026
NFS Client Cleanup Fix Removes Orphaned rpc_pipefs Files
Linus Torvalds merged a Linux NFS client update on Aug 26, 2026, that includes a fix for rpc_pipefs files left attached to an RPC client after the client [...]
August 27, 2026
Nvidia eyes $12.9 bn Hugging Face deal to expand AI platform control
Nvidia is moving to acquire AI platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9 billion, a move that would extend its reach beyond chips into how AI [...]
August 27, 2026
AWS acquires DuckLabs, but what does it want from the team behind DuckDB?
Open-source software has given cloud providers a way to adopt popular technologies without having to own the companies behind them. AWS, however, has [...]
August 27, 2026
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined a nuisance call blocking biz £190,000 ($258,000) for bombarding elderly people with hundreds of thousands of [...]
August 27, 2026
AI coding agents vs. big balls of mud
Big balls of mud are inevitable, right? I’ve written about where these sprawling, difficult-to-maintain codebases come from and how you might deal with [...]
August 27, 2026
Why digital twins need memory as much as AI agents
Digital twins began as virtual counterparts to physical systems. In aerospace, manufacturing, and other high-stakes environments, they gave engineers a [...]
August 27, 2026
How to implement HMAC authentication in ASP.NET Core
Security is a major concern for web applications and services that use the HTTP protocol. Although HTTP is a versatile protocol that can be used in many [...]
August 27, 2026
IPMI Security Patch Restores a Lost Linux RCU Grace Period
The Linux IPMI maintainer accepted a patch on Aug 26, 2026 that restores an RCU grace period before command-receiver objects are freed. The one-line change [...]
August 27, 2026
Debian xrdp Advisory DSA-6469-1 Multiple Threats CVE-2026-32105
August 27, 2026
Linux Uevent Leak Exposes Freed Memory in Synaptics RMI4
A Linux uevent can carry bytes from freed kernel memory when one object survives longer than the allocation behind its name. A new Synaptics RMI4 patch [...]
August 27, 2026
Rocky Linux Ruby 3.3 Important Security Updates RLSA-2026-50828
August 27, 2026
Rocky Linux 9 Ruby Important RLSA-2026-50827 Security Updates
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 Rust-anstyle-hyperlink Security Fix for CVE-2026-5222
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 BlueZ Moderate Out-of-Bounds Read CVE-2026-75032
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 OpenSSH Important File Control Risk CVE-2026-59995
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 Knot Critical Security Fix Update 2026-4857ca6db8
August 27, 2026
Fedora 43 openbao Security Fix Advisory 2026-ba51600ab3
August 27, 2026
Fedora 44 Emacs Important Integer Overflow CVE-2026-77219
August 27, 2026
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
The FBI on Wednesday said it disrupted a botnet and seized two platforms that Chinese-government cyberoperatives used to hack NASA, the US Senate, the [...]
August 27, 2026
DSA-6469-1 xrdp – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6470-1 gimp – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6471-1 wireshark – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6472-1 bubblewrap – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6473-1 libdbi-perl – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6474-1 cockpit – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6475-1 suricata-update – security update
August 27, 2026
DSA-6476-1 chromium – security update
August 27, 2026
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has published its technical report detailing “the Hugging Face incident,” the compromise of the eponymous LLM repository by unreleased, [...]
August 26, 2026
SUSE Important Update for util-linux Vulnerabilities 2026-3813-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Buildah Important Security Update Vuln 2026-3817-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Essential Security Patch for kubernetes-old 2026-3823-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Kubernetes Vital Security Patch SUSE-SU-2026-3824-1
August 26, 2026
SUSE Kernel Security Update 2026-3810-1 Important Issues Fixed
August 26, 2026
DSA-6466-1 linux – security update
August 26, 2026