Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover
Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print
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SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote ac…
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world
Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker
Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million to Expand Data Fabric Platform
The previously bootstrapped company helps organizations securely and reliably operate AI agents at scale. The post Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million to Expand Data Fabric Platform ap…
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm
Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral
Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P
Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credenti…
US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them
The 17 members of the Mabna Institute targeted hundreds of universities and organizations in the US and abroad. The post US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards f…
Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or …
StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infecte…
Microsoft fixes known issue causing Windows Defender crashes
Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused Windows Defender to crash after a recent security update, resulting in 0xc0000005 access violation errors on some affected systems. [...]
Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign
The cybercrime gang has listed major companies such as Shell, Philips, Fiserv, Zebra, Mindray, and Largan Precision. The post Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Win…
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks
Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they a…
ICE Collecting DNA Samples
ICE collected nearly a million DNA samples last year.
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities
The flaws can be exploited for remote code execution, authentication bypass, and device takeover. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulne…
Cerebras reimagines AI cluster design with switchless CS-4 architecture
Cerebras Systems has unveiled the CS-4, a new rack-scale AI system that can connect its wafer-scale processors across racks without network switches, an approach designed to reduce…
Critical RCE flaw in Windows IKE Extension now actively exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the Windows Internet Key…
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims
Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle
IBM moves closer to fault-tolerant quantum computing with modular cryogenic systems
As it pursues its goal of producing a fault-tolerant quantum computer, IBM today announced that it has achieved another milestone: It has successfully joined two cryogenic modules …
Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning
Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required
943 Patches Rolled Out With Oracle’s August 2026 Security Update
The fixes resolve over 1,000 vulnerabilities across two dozen products, including over 460 remotely exploitable bugs. The post 943 Patches Rolled Out With Oracle’s August 2026 Secu…
Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 2 months
Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 24H2 will stop receiving updates in two months. [...]
UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards
Those legacy systems won't fix themselves
Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities
The bugs could lead to code execution, privilege escalation, sandbox escape, and information disclosure. The post Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared f…
CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs
The FBI said Tuesday that the Medusa ransomware gang has breached more than 500 critical infrastructure organizations in the United States since June 2021. [...]
CareCloud Data Breach Impact Grows to 3.7 Million Individuals
The data breach was initially believed to affect roughly 350,000 people, but the HHS breach tracker shows a far bigger impact. The post CareCloud Data Breach Impact Grows to 3.7 Mi…
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure
Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors …
Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data
A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise …
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues
It seems like Nvidia’s not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon