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The states of Florida and Texas are moving to end their relationship with surveillance giant Flock, as the company faces increasing backlash over privacy concerns and misuse of its tracking technology. Florida’s Department of Transportation said in a memo on Monday that it will cease using license plate readers
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* Russians consider VPNs an essential domestic utility, RKS Global says * Community groups promoting shared use of VPNs are growing * Users also rely on multiple VPNs to counter regular crackdowns Russian citizens are increasingly viewing VPNs as a regular line item in their household bills as they create new forms of
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TL;DR Processors still execute instructions with no understanding of whether they are legitimate. Dover Microsystems’ CoreGuard, born from DARPA’s $100M CRASH program, adds a silicon-level enforcement layer that watches every instruction against programmable micropolicies. NXP engaged Dover in 2018 for embedded platforms. IBM finds 1 in 4 malicious
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* NordVPN blocked 94% of malicious URLs in latest AV-Comparatives test * The provider's next-gen antivirus registered zero false positives * NordVPN ranked third overall, behind Avast and Norton antivirus tools If you're hunting for the best VPN to secure your digital life, a provider's ability to
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Whether you’re heading off to university for the first time or starting a new academic year, back-to-school season usually means shopping for new gear. Just don’t forget to put a virtual private network, or VPN, on that list. Students have become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals because of
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Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped US hospital operator Nutex Health says attackers stole private or confidential patient, employee, provider, business, and financial information during the cyberattack it disclosed last week. In an updated filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday,
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Researchers at Forescout’s Vedere Labs used Anthropic’s Claude to port a working remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another. They succeeded but only after extensive researcher oversight, several hours of dedicated work, and hundreds of dollars in API costs. The starting
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Threat actors have started exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the AI low-code platform Langflow, vulnerability intelligence firm VulnCheck warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS score of 9.8), the security defect exists within the code validator in Langflow’s custom component editor. Because a user-supplied string is
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Five Venezuelan nationals have pleaded guilty in a US court to attempting to steal money from ATMs. The defendants, Luis Alberto Velasquez-Artigas, 27, Royder Adrian Figuera-Perez, 29, Javier Mejia, Jr, 27, Gabriel Alexjandro Corales-Garcia, 33, and Italo Lizandro Corrales-Carrillo, 26, attempted to install malware on ATMs in Wamego and Manhattan,
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Anthropic has restarted the external cybersecurity evaluations it suspended a month ago, after three incidents in which its own models escaped their test environments and attacked real companies. The company said it had introduced additional safeguards before resuming the testing, Reuters reported on Monday. The incidents, disclosed on July 31,
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* Microsoft warns of TerminalFix, a campaign abusing compromised sites with fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs * Victims paste malicious PowerShell commands, sideloading DLLs and deploying a Python implant * Implant enables encrypted reverse tunnels, giving attackers pivot access into internal networks Security researchers from Microsoft are warning of an ongoing malicious campaign that uses
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A critical vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory is reportedly being exploited in the wild just days after its public disclosure. JFrog Artifactory is a widely used solution for managing the full lifecycle of software artifacts, binaries, AI models, containers, and packages. Artifactory updates released on August 28 patch CVE-2026-82329, a critical
