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US charges suspected Dream Market admin arrested in Germany
The alleged main administrator of Dream Market Incognito Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been indicted in the United States on money laund…
High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in VMware Fusion
The patch was announced as Broadcom is attending the Pwn2Own hacking competition in Berlin this week. The post High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in VMware Fusion appeared first o…
Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice
CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?
New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (known as Fragnasia and tracked as CVE-2026-46300) that allows attackers to…
Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma Windows Zero-Days
YellowKey is a BitLocker bypass that requires physical access. GreenPlasma enables elevation of privileges to System. The post Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma Windows Zero-…
New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption
Details have emerged about a new variant of the recent Dirty Frag Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain root access, making it th…
To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely
Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor
AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks
UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time
18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The…
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads
Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco
Reducing memory requirements to control costs in a new wave of kit
Cisco to cut nearly 4,000 jobs despite strong growth in AI, enterprise networking
Despite reporting positive financial news — including record third-quarter revenue of $15.8 billion, a 12% year-over-year increase — Cisco said it will eliminate almost 4,000 jobs.…
Cisco workforce reductions
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Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem?
If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ...
West Pharmaceutical says hackers stole data, encrypted systems
West Pharmaceutical Services disclosed that it was the target of a cyberattack that resulted in data exfiltration and system encryption. [...]
Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that'
Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory
Iranian hackers targeted major South Korean electronics maker
The Iran-linked hacking group MuddyWater (a.k.a. Seedworm, Static Kitten) launched a broad cyber-espionage campaign targeting at least nine high-profile organizations across multip…
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Checkbox Assessments Aren't Fit to Measure Risk
Security governance needs to be more than an annual compliance exercise. New companies are emerging to address risk-management gaps in current audit tools.
Attackers Weaponize RubyGems for Data Dead Drops
Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.
D2DO302: Not Just Brains in Jars: The Human Psychology of Developers
Ned and Kyler are joined by Dr. Cat Hicks to discuss her new book “The Psychology of Software Teams.” They talk about software development from a psychological perspective, includi…
Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures
And neither AI nor international conflict are helping
Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks
But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data
Tables Turn on 'The Gentlemen' RaaS Gang With Data Leak
An OPSEC failure provides a window into what helped the ransomware group rise: a generous affiliate model, opportunistic TTPs, and an effective organizational structure.
New critical Exim mailer flaw allows remote code execution
A critical vulnerability affecting certain configurations of the Exim open-source mail transfer agent could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary …
Bug hunter tracks down three massive MCP flaws and one vendor won't fix theirs
Apache, Alibaba databases vulnerable and only one has a patch
See through local AI lies with Irish eyes
ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server
Dark Reading Celebrates 20 Years as a Leading Authority on Cybersecurity, Highlighting the People, Events, Ideas, and Technologies Shaping the Modern Risk Landscape
Informa TechTarget's flagship cybersecurity media brand launches a special content series to mark two decades as a trusted source for cybersecurity professionals.
Startup SPAN teams with Nvidia to put data center nodes in your backyard
Even though many communities are in open revolt against massive data centers needed to power artificial intelligence, a startup is betting that homeowners will welcome miniature da…