Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), …
This is the sixth update to the TeamPCP supply chain campaign threat intelligence report, “When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon” (v3.0, March 25, 2026). Update 005 covered …
In one of his recent diaries, Johannes discussed how open redirects are actively being sought out by threat actors[ 1 ], which made me wonder about how commonly these mechanisms are actually misused… …
Webshells remain a popular method for attackers to maintain persistence on a compromised web server. Many “arbitrary file write” and “remote code execution” vulnerabilities are …
WhatsApp’s new “Private Inference” feature represents one of the most ambitious attempts to combine end-to-end encryption with AI-powered capabilities, such as message summarization. To make this …
Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation disguises simple operations like x + y behind tangles of arithmetic and bitwise operators. Malware authors and software protectors rely on it because no …
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “ UNKN ” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil …
Specialist journalists and publications are most likely to be cited in AI answers
Specialist journalists and publications appear to be among those most likely to be cited in AI answers .
PR database …
The Readly app displayed on a tablet. Picture: Readly
French all-you-can-read platform Cafeyn has finalised its acquisition of Readly’s non-Nordic businesses, meaning it is now running the platform …
Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. …
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Uh oh, there’s a scaling war for cyberattacks …
To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains …
Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. …
Friday Squid Blogging: Jurassic Fish Chokes on Squid Here’s a fossil of a 150-million year old fish that choked to death on a belemnite rostrum the hard, internal shell of an extinct, squid-like …
Company that Secretly Records and Publishes Zoom Meetings WebinarTV searches the internet for public Zoom invites, joins the meetings, secretly records them, and publishes (alternate link ) the …
New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general:
If …
Google Wants to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography by 2029 Google says that it will fully transition to post-quantum cryptography by 2029. I think this is a good move, not because I think we will …
Houston, TX, USA – Apr 14, 2025: Photo of the Artemis II crew, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, is seen on display at Space Center Houston. Picture: Tada …
Access to open source visuals of the current Iran conflict, which has spread to many parts of the Middle East, continues to be sporadic . Videos and photos from within Iran trickle out on social media …
A court has ordered that a Modigliani painting traced in part due to the Panama Papers be returned to its rightful owner’s estate more than 80 years after it was confiscated by the Nazis.
New York …
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