Every major building in America has three things: a physical address, a legal owner, and an unmonitored attack surface.

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That surface extends from the ground up through every floor, every facade, and … (more…)

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He created Gmail accounts, impersonated real US researchers, and convinced NASA, the military, and universities to hand over sensitive code.

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A list of topics we covered in the week of April 20 to April 26 of 2026

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Overview On April 15, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the April Security Update patch, fixing 165 security issues involving Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET Framework, Widely used products such as Azure, including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed by […]

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A vulnerability in iPhones and iPads allowed law enforcement to recover deleted notifications, including Signal message previews.

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Roblox is paying millions to settle child safety claims while rolling out strict age checks and chat limits that could reshape how kids use the platform.

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A list of topics we covered in the week of April 13 to April 19 of 2026

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This month’s Patch Tuesday addresses 167 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days that could lead to system compromise, data exposure, and privilege escalation.

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Inside a targeted email campaign that funnels the most vulnerable financial people into handing over sensitive data, and signing up for weekly fees.

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For years, quantum risk was easy for most institutions to treat as premature: real in theory, urgent someday, but not yet an operational problem. That is no longer tenable.

Related: AI spawns semantic attacks

Two developments this month brought the … (more…)

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New cases and research suggest AI chatbots don’t always shut down dangerous conversations.

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Even though it’s patched, Adobe confirmed it was exploited in the wild, so updating is urgent, not optional.

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A list of topics we covered in the week of April 6 to April 12 of 2026

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MyLovely.AI leaked personal data, explicit prompts, and images of over 100,000 users, exposing many to sextortion and doxxing.

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MyLovely.AI leaked personal data, explicit prompts, and images of over 100,000 users, exposing many to sextortion and doxxing.

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ProPublica has a scoop:

In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings.

The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPublica.

Or, as one member of the team put it: “The package is a pile of shit.”

For years, reviewers said, Microsoft had tried and failed to fully explain how it protects sensitive information in the cloud as it hops from server to server across the digital terrain. Given that and other unknowns, government experts couldn’t vouch for the technology’s security...

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Phishers are using QR codes on official-looking notices to level up their traffic and toll scams.

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As if securing the enterprise against a tidal wave of AI tools wasn’t hard enough, it turns out the geopolitical instability of the moment is making things worse.

That wasn’t the headline at RSAC 2026 last week — agentic AI … (more…)

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Healthcare companies handle some of the most personal data imaginable, and that makes them a magnet for hackers.

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A list of topics we covered in the week of March 30 to April 5 of 2026

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