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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.

Google’s new frontier model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro and is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders via its Fairwind Program.

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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.

Polymarket hacked Polymarket hacked

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

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

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

Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure.

Cisco Talos linked SD-WAN key-stealing malware to infrastructure overlapping Volt Typhoon’s Silent Train network, which Lumen detailed.

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Companies to Combine Marketing and Technology Resources to Assist in Brand Protection Document Security Systems, a Rochester, NY based provider of document security solutions, and Eastman Kodak have announced a partnership in which they will provide applications to will enable a broad range of industries and governments to combat the increasingly damaging effects of counterfeiting and brand fraud.What types of documents and items really need such protection? A lot.

Trouble Ahead - The Implementation Challenges for DNSSECThere has been a lot of recent buzz surrounding implementation of Domain Name System Security extensions (i.e., DNSSEC). The latest example: verification and signing of DNSSEC for the .IN (India) and .ASIA top-level domains (TLDs), which are being pitched as major enhancements to global security for much of Asia.

Startup Says its ASL Protocol Fixes Fundamental Flaws with SSL Operating in stealth mode for the better part of five years, Toronto, Canada based Federated Networks, an Internet security software firm that launched in September at the DEMO Conference, received some validation and a vote of confidence that the company is on track with its initiatives to protect users from some of the most pervasive threat vectors.

Varonis Systems, a provider of data governance software, today announced it has extended its DatAdvantage for UNIX now supports AIX servers, allowing AIX system administrators the ability to perform automated data access and usage audits, fix and maintain access controls, identify sensitive data and find data owners.

Novell, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo.

Mobile Threats a Top Concern in 2011 According to Several Industry ReportsThreats targeting the fast growing smartphone and tablet markets top the list of cyber concerns in 2011 according to a report released today by M86 Security Labs and echoed by several other firms and recent reports.

Anonymizer has released a beta version of Nevercookie, the recently announced Firefox plugin designed to protect against the Evercookie, a javascript API built and made available by Samy Kamkar (same guy who brought you the Samy Worm and XSS Hacking to Determine Physica

Malaysian National Allegedly Hacked Federal Reserve Bank, Department of Defense Contractor and MoreAfter arriving at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in late October, Lin Mun Poo, a 32 year-old resident of Malaysia traveling to the US on a business trip was greeted by Secret Service Agents who arrested him and seized his laptop computer.

The United States Attorney's Office Eastern District of Michigan announced today that former Ford employee Xiang Dong Yu, aka Mike Yu, 49, of Beijing, China, pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of theft of trade secrets.

Adobe this week announced the availability of its new Acrobat X Family of products, including Adobe Reader X as well as Acrobat X Suite, Acrobat X Pro, and Acrobat X Standard. In the new release, Adobe added an entirely new security strategy with a new “Protected Mode” for Acrobat Reader.

Majority of Americans Have Abandoned an Online Purchase Due to Security Concerns, Poll FindsAccording to a national poll released today by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), 64 percent of Americans said they have not made an online purchase from a specific website because of security concerns.

Cisco and VMware to Deliver Integrated Virtual Desktop Solution Cisco and VMware this week announced a desktop virtualization solution based on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and VMware View 4.5.The solution is aimed at helping customers deploy virtual desktop solutions that scale to meet business needs and regulatory requirements while reducing risk and total cost of ownership.

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