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A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.

Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Iran eyed in military freezer hacks, Copenhagen University breach, AI-powered malware.

As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it.

It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments.

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity unauthenticated race condition leading to remote code execution.

Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders.

Malicious code linked to a website monitoring tool was designed to hijack logged-in Polymarket sessions and siphon user funds.

Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, the bug allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server.

An integer overflow tracked as CVE-2026-111585 could be used to execute arbitrary code on the viewer’s system.

Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop.

Risk managers are trained to spot weak signals, plan for disruption and make hard decisions under uncertainty. But the discipline looks different when the risk is not a system or an enterprise, but you.

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A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.

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Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.

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Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders.

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Malicious code linked to a website monitoring tool was designed to hijack logged-in Polymarket sessions and siphon user funds.

Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, the bug allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server.

Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop.

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Network security vendor Palo Alto Networks, today announced that its next generation firewalls have achieved Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+), making Palo Alto Networks firewalls validated for deployment in critical infrastructures, ranging from national governments to enterprise and financial institution networks.

Fixmo, a provider of mobile security and risk management solutions, today launched Fixmo SharePlace, a data leakage prevention (DLP) solution designed to provide secure and compliant remote access to Microsoft SharePoint from iOS and Android devices.

Today’s businesses must be able to rapidly adapt to changing market conditions – to support a new venture, merger/acquisition, etc. As business needs change, so too must the underlying security policies.

The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or REN-ISAC, recently issued an alert to administrators and IT staffers at some of the world’s most notable institutions of higher learning that urges them to take the matter of securing DNS seriously.

NEW YORK - The New Yorker magazine on Wednesday unveiled a new online system for anonymous whistleblower tips, based on technology developed by the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz and a former hacker.

McAfee pulled the curtain back on a new biometric protection suite on Tuesday, promising uniform data protection across multiple platforms, including Mac OS X, iOS, Windows, and Android.

Would you mind a stranger taking your picture as you eat ice cream on a bench outside? What if your spouse and kids were also in the shot? Kind of creepy. Lots of folks have a negative reaction to stranger taking their pictures. They feel their rights have been impinged. But the rights you feel you deserve and the rights you have under the law can be very different. Let’s see what rights you really have with your image.

Bitcoin’s wiki defines it to be “an experimental, decentralized digital currency”. As with any experimental system, if it proves to be successful then it is usually followed by a finalized product which builds on the parts that worked well on the experiment and removes the parts proved to be irrelevant.

Researchers have uncovered a targeted attack against political rights activists in China in which a malicious Word document exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Office to take control of the victim computer.

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