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Vulnerabilities The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-21962 and it has been widely exploited by threat actors against WebLogic servers. The cybersecurity agency CISA has instructed government organizations to immediately patch a critical vulnerability that has been widely exploited in attacks against Oracle WebLogic servers. The remote code execution flaw, identified
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In the first part of this series we laid the foundations, covering what the internet really is, how the web works, how search engines crawl and index it and why 96% of it remains invisible to Google. If you haven’t read it yet I’d recommend starting there before
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OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, walked out
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OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was the first of its kind
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Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 24, 2026 03:58 PM ET The public-private task force will focus on moving financial institutions to quantum-resistant technology and addressing risks created by vendors and digital assets. * Treasury * Quantum Computing * Encryption The Treasury Department announced a
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In Brief 12:58 PM PDT · August 24, 2026 Alabama’s Attorney General announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident. The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI
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It’s been nearly two months since Sony announced that the future of PlayStation is going to be all-digital, sparking a furor amongst the gaming community. The company’s social media announcements have usually received hundreds of messages disapproving of the move to phase out discs, but the most serious
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Cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest has confirmed being targeted by hackers affiliated with the notorious ShinyHunters group, but claims the impact of the attack was limited. ReliaQuest revealed on August 17 in a post on X that it had been tracking a widespread ShinyHunters phishing campaign involving domains with the ‘company.claims’
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* Expel researchers warn of SynkLoader backdoor spread via fake IT help desk Teams messages * Malware modules include PhishLocker (fake login screen harvesting OS passwords) and Interactive Shell for remote control * Defenses: distrust unsolicited Teams DMs, verify with IT before installing apps, and train staff against social engineering For roughly a
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No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg A suspected Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a small UK power plant around the time that a series of digital intrusions disrupted American water utilities across 12 states. A British government spokesperson confirmed the hack to The Register on Monday and
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Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in a notification letter dated 21 August and posted on the California attorney general’s website. The letter opens the
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Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky have uncovered a malware downloader that targets Android-based automotive head units, marking the first documented case of malicious code explicitly engineered to compromise vehicle infotainment systems with the main intent of carrying out ad fraud. The discovered campaign basically disguises as legitimate software update mechanisms to
