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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Bottom line: It appears that OpenAI is going to face more consequences from the Hugging Face cybersecurity incident. A Senate subcommittee for disaster-management oversight is looking into the company's response to the
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A security flaw in Skullcandy's Dime 3 wireless earphones allows nearby attackers to hijack Bluetooth connections, intercept audio playback, and access built-in microphones without any user interaction or physical confirmation. To be specific, the vulnerability affects Dime 3s running firmware version 1.0.0.28. The bug stems
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6:21 AM PDT · September 10, 2026 ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack. The company said in a website
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Have I Been Pwned logs leaked records spanning patients, staff, and providers McKesson's cyberattack last month affected roughly 6.4 million individuals, according to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The breach notification service added data leaked by serial extortionists ShinyHunters, revealing the scale of the attack for the
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Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the trick. Tencent, which owns
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Pentagon Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies appears at a Senate Committee on Armed Services subcommittee hearing on cybersecurity on Capitol Hill on March 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW September 10, 2026 09:00 AM ET Defense Department Chief Information Officer
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday warned that threat actors have been exploiting a critical-severity NetScaler vulnerability in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-19490 (CVSS score of 9.3), the security defect impacts all NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances configured as a gateway (SSL VPN, ICA Proxy,
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Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies and its handling of rogue AI activity, Reuters
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Anthropic disclosed a previously unreported incident involving unauthorized access to a real system, in a report that also revisits three cases the company first described in late July. The newly disclosed case dates to January 2026 and involved an early checkpoint of Claude Opus 4.6, which broke into a
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Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was published on Wednesday, and three of the incidents were disclosed on 30 July. The fourth, involving
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Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this summer, is one recent attempt to close that gap from inside
