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Ravie Lakshmanan
Prompt Injection / Enterprise Security
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new attack method dubbed Reprompt that could allow bad actors to …
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Jan 15, 2026 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Web Security /Vulnerability
A maximum-severity security flaw in a WordPress plugin called Modular DS has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to …
Prince Harry outside the High Court in London on Monday 27 March for a hearing in his unlawful information gathering case against Mail publisher Associated Newspapers. Picture: PA Wire/Jordan Pettitt …
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Jan 15, 2026 **
The Hacker News
Data Security / Artificial Intelligence
As AI copilots and assistants become embedded in daily work, security teams are still focused on protecting the models …
Amol Rajan presenting the Radical with Amol Rajan podcast. Picture: BBC/Youtube screenshot
Amol Rajan is leaving the BBC Radio 4 Today programme after almost five years to start his own business. …
New Vulnerability in n8n This isn’t good:
We discovered a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2026-21858, CVSS 10.0 ) in n8n that enables attackers to take over locally deployed instances, impacting an …
[This is a Guest Diary by Matthew Presnal, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Cryptojacking and botnets can pose a greater threat than a simple drain of resources. These organizations …
It’s 2026, yet many SOCs are still operating the way they did years ago, using tools and processes designed for a very different threat landscape. Given the growth in volumes and complexity of …
The top apps for engagement retention: The Times and The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Mail+
The Daily Mail and The Times have the most engaged app users of any newsbrand in the UK, according to data …
Chinese robot pictured at Web Summit in Lisbon. Picture: Press Gazette/Dominic Ponsford
Members of the public in the UK place huge value on real human-generated journalism and are deeply distrustful …
Marfeel research on Google Discover
Google is increasingly prioritising AI summaries, X posts and Youtube videos on its Discover mobile aggregation platform.
The changes could be devastating for …
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Jan 15, 2026 **
Ravie Lakshmanan
Network Security / Vulnerability
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, for …
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has taken a " coordinated legal action " in the U.S. and the U.K. to disrupt a cybercrime subscription service called RedVDS that has allegedly …
In 2024, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) produced a stunning investigation that showed gig workers in the Global South were unknowingly building AI systems used to suppress dissent in …
With the advancement in tools and services that make generative AI models accessible, businesses can now access the same foundation models (FMs) as their competitors. True differentiation comes from …
AutoScout24 is Europe’s leading automotive marketplace platform that connects buyers and sellers of new and used cars, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles across several European countries. Their …
Generative artificial intelligence models have left such an indelible impact on digital content creation that it’s getting harder to recall what the internet was like before it. You can call on these …
The MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence (SQI), a research unit in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, brings together researchers from across MIT who combine their diverse expertise to …
Introduction
In recent weeks, Lumma Stealer infections have followed a specific pattern in follow-up activity. This pattern adds scheduled tasks for the same action, which increases traffic to the …
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control (C2) nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025.
AISURU …
Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth Researchers have demonstrated remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an advisory .
CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce …
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on January …
Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that’s exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to …
AI agents have quickly moved from experimental tools to core components of daily workflows across security, engineering, IT, and operations. What began as individual productivity aids, like personal …