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HN826: An Inside Look at Palo Alto Networks Prisma Browser for Business (Sponsored)
A Mastercard survey reveals that 46% of small and medium businesses have experienced a cyberattack, and nearly 20% of those that suffered an attack were then forced to file for ban…
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524 Points: 430 # Comments: 173
Insider Betting on Polymarket
Insider trading is rife on Polymarket: Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—defined as wagers of $2…
Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction
Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations
Cartoon Network Flash Games
Article URL: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360 Points: 419 # Comments: …
NVIDIA confirms GeForce NOW data breach affecting Armenian users
NVIDIA has confirmed in a statement for BleepingComputer that GeForce NOW user information has been exposed in a data breach. [...]
Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs
BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries
Q&A: Quantum physicist Sonia Fernández-Vidal on why classical computing isn’t going anywhere
Sonia Fernández-Vidal has spent her career making the strange world of quantum physics feel tangible: first in the laboratory, then on the page, and now in the gallery. A doctor in…
Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number,…
OpenAI-led consortium seeks to address AI processing bottlenecks
An OpenAI-led consortium of tech giants including AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia have unveiled a new networking protocol designed to address network congestion, a prob…
In Other News: Train Hacker Arrested, PamDOORa Linux Backdoor, New CISA Director Frontrunner
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: US gov targets 72-hour patch cycles, malware uses Windows Phone Link to steal OTPs, spy operation targets Eurasian…
Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug
Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it
Why More Analysts Won’t Solve Your SOC’s Alert Problem
Attackers move faster than overwhelmed SOC teams can realistically investigate alerts. Prophet Security breaks down how AI can help analysts investigate alerts faster and focus on …
'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE
Trellix source code breach claimed by RansomHouse hackers
The attack on the Trellix source code repository disclosed last week has been claimed by the RansomHouse threat group, which leaked a small set of images as proof of the intrusion.…
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy
In a word, 'Huh?'
Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext
After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard
A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive
UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls
Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs
CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day
CISA has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks…
AWS hit by US-East-1 outage after data center thermal event
A power outage triggered by a thermal event inside an Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia disrupted Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and Elastic Block Store (…
GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt
Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site
Polish Security Agency Reports ICS Breaches at Five Water Treatment Plants
The hackers gained the ability to modify equipment operational parameters, creating a direct risk to the public water supply. The post Polish Security Agency Reports ICS Breaches a…
AI Firm Braintrust Prompts API Key Rotation After Data Breach
Hackers accessed one of the company’s AWS accounts and compromised AI provider secrets stored in Braintrust. The post AI Firm Braintrust Prompts API Key Rotation After Data Breach …
Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise
A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of pos…
Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack
ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security
Cyberattack Hits Canvas System Used by Thousands of Schools as Finals Loom
A system that thousands of schools and universities use went offline due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals. The post Cyberattack Hits Canvas Sy…
Zara data breach exposed personal information of 197,000 people
Hackers who gained access to the databases of Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara stole data belonging to more than 197,000 customers, according to data breach notification service …
Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions
Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue