August 14, 2026
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
France’s tax authority has confirmed that an intruder accessed its systems and extracted data in June after an alleged cybercriminal advertised a [...]
August 14, 2026
Linux BPF Patches Fix Sparse CPU Bugs Causing Out-of-Bounds Read
Two fixes posted August 13 correct separate per-CPU map failures on Linux systems whose logical CPU IDs contain gaps.
August 14, 2026
Nvidia moves into hot market for model routers
Model routing has emerged as a way to keep AI inferencing costs down by examining prompts and directing them to the most appropriate model — for example, [...]
August 14, 2026
Oracle’s new database security tool is free — for six months
Oracle has released a security tool intended to provide organizations with a centralized view of security risk across their database environments. Oracle [...]
August 14, 2026
Autonomous AI attacks pose ‘clear and present danger’ to critical infrastructure
In early July, attackers used open source AI agents to autonomously hack government systems and energy companies, signaling to defenders that AI-powered [...]
August 14, 2026
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers’ details exposed in logistics breach
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that a breach at one of its shipping partners exposed the personal data of more than 13,000 [...]
August 14, 2026
Google cuts Gemini 3.7 Flash prices as enterprise AI economics diverge and Pro cadence slows
Google has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, with updates focused on coding, automation, and agent workflows, alongside lower pricing for production deployments. [...]
August 14, 2026
Cloud ops is different in a neocloud
Enterprises are taking a serious look at neoclouds, the specialized cloud providers built primarily around AI infrastructure, especially GPUs, high-speed [...]
August 14, 2026
Debian Trixie Unzip Important Code Execution Issue DSA-6440-1
August 14, 2026
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed
Scotland’s public prosecution service has warned 300 staff that their personal information may have been caught up in a cyberattack on one of its [...]
August 14, 2026
Debian Trixie Zip Command Injection Vulnerability DSA-6439-1
August 14, 2026
Gentoo libinput High Multiple Vulnerabilities GLSA-202608-08
August 14, 2026
Gentoo Exim High Code Exec Vulnerabilities GLSA-202608-07
August 14, 2026
Gentoo Flatpak High Sandbox Escape Issues GLSA-202608-06
August 14, 2026
Rocky Linux php8.4 Low Bug Fix DoS Enhancement RLSA-2026-49914
August 14, 2026
Rocky Linux 10 PHP Low Denial of Service Fix RLSA-2026-48170
August 14, 2026
Gentoo Apache HTTPD High Remote Execution Risk GLSA-202608-05
August 14, 2026
New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs
New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) has claimed Chinese companies are building space facilities in the nation to gather military [...]
August 14, 2026
DeepSeek raises some V4 prices by more than 10x as AI demand strains capacity
One of AI vendor DeepSeek’s biggest selling points has been its ultra-low price point, but that party’s about to end. The Chinese model provider is raising [...]
August 14, 2026
Fedora 43 erlang-cowlib Denial of Service Fix 2026-ce97d80dae
August 14, 2026
Fedora 44 erlang-cowlib Denial of Service Fix 2026-7d233ad8b0
August 14, 2026
OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging
If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt [...]
August 14, 2026
DSA-6442-1 util-linux – security update
August 14, 2026
DSA-6441-1 python-httplib2 – security update
August 14, 2026
DSA-6440-1 unzip – security update
August 14, 2026
DSA-6439-1 zip – security update
August 14, 2026
Microsoft updates C++ build tools for Visual Studio
The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s [...]
August 13, 2026
Slackware 15.0 rsync Security Update Advisory 2026-225-01
August 13, 2026
Mageia dhcpcd Critical Memory Corruption DoS Vuln 2026-0335
August 13, 2026
Oracle Linux 7 ELSA-2026-50808 libpng Moderate CVE-2026-33416
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
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
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
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
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