Claiming ‘it’s my server’ was often enough to persuade models to help
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This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …
What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas
Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit
Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains ‘full administrative access to an N-central console’
AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday
Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock’s expansion the American way
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages
Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline
Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home
Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k
Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence
Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another
AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns
With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue
Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems
Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal’s agenda as hospitality sector put on alert
Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict
Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames ‘grossly incompetent’ governor of Minnesota instead
UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials’ contact details
Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public
AI is ‘both the weapon and the target’ in latest wave of cyberattacks
CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook
Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine
Schools often don’t prioritize or understand cybersecurity
Excuses like ‘AI did it’ don’t exist in the eyes of the law
If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that” is an effective sales pitch for open source
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Whoever wins, we lose