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  • Google AI gives wildly racist ‘advice’ about social situations with different groups: ‘I am alone with a Brit’

    Google AI gives wildly racist ‘advice’ about social situations with different groups: ‘I am alone with a Brit’ 2026-08-21 at 21:14 By [email protected] Trust your gut, not the bot. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • NYC surpasses San Francisco as biggest tech talent hub, study shows

    NYC surpasses San Francisco as biggest tech talent hub, study shows 2026-08-21 at 20:24 By Thomas Barrabi New York City has surpassed San Francisco as the largest hub of tech talent in the country – and the rise of artificial intelligence is a key factor in the boom, according to a new research report by…

  • Robot filmed colliding with wall during controversial World Humanoid Games training: ‘Sparks flying everywhere’

    Robot filmed colliding with wall during controversial World Humanoid Games training: ‘Sparks flying everywhere’ 2026-08-21 at 20:02 By Ben Cost It was a complete brake-down. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone Launches National Security Advisory Firm

    Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone Launches National Security Advisory Firm 2026-08-21 at 19:27 By Mike Lennon The newly-formed Nakasone Group will counsel government leaders, corporations, prominent families, and other private clients confronting cybersecurity, geopolitical, and personal security risks. The post Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone Launches National Security Advisory Firm appeared first on SecurityWeek. This…

  • Digital Asset, Paul Ryan foundation target US state benefits with Canton pilot

    Digital Asset, Paul Ryan foundation target US state benefits with Canton pilot 2026-08-21 at 19:25 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The RISE program would use the Canton Network to combine and distribute state-administered benefits across three US states beginning in 2027. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Bitcoin rally sends crypto stocks soaring as miners, treasury companies jump

    Bitcoin rally sends crypto stocks soaring as miners, treasury companies jump 2026-08-21 at 19:11 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Bitcoin’s rally above $79,000 lifted miners and treasury companies, with Canaan, Strive and Metaplanet posting double-digit gains as crypto stocks surged. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

    Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot 2026-08-21 at 18:52 By Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no…

  • Crypto Biz: Treasury’s ‘Not-QE’ playbook sends Bitcoin higher

    Crypto Biz: Treasury’s ‘Not-QE’ playbook sends Bitcoin higher 2026-08-21 at 18:50 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Bitcoin rallied as Treasury bond buybacks fueled the “not-QE” trade, while Metaplanet expanded to the US and Cypherpunk made a $33 million Zcash mining bet. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet

    Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet 2026-08-21 at 18:41 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that’s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve…

  • In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug

    In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug 2026-08-21 at 18:11 By SecurityWeek News Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Threema DDoS attack, Evooo1Bot Linux botnet, Crypto4A secures top-tier NIST certification. The post In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable…

  • Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini

    Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini 2026-08-21 at 17:34 By Kevin Townsend Researchers say the new ‘Cryptographic Context Injection’ technique conceals malicious instructions until they are decrypted inside a trusted execution environment. The post Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is…

  • New Phishing Toolkit Uses Passkeys to Maintain Access After Password Resets

    New Phishing Toolkit Uses Passkeys to Maintain Access After Password Resets 2026-08-21 at 17:22 By Kevin Townsend Researchers say iAuthFlow V2 can register an attacker-controlled passkey, enabling persistent access even after passwords are changed and active sessions revoked. The post New Phishing Toolkit Uses Passkeys to Maintain Access After Password Resets appeared first on SecurityWeek.…

  • Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host

    Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host 2026-08-21 at 15:26 By Ionut Arghire The type confusion bug can lead to V8 sandbox escape and control-flow hijacking of the host process. The post Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Critical Microsoft Entra ID vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-69836)

    Critical Microsoft Entra ID vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-69836) 2026-08-21 at 15:20 By Sinisa Markovic Microsoft has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-69836) in Entra ID, reportedly exploited in the wild. Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud identity service, formerly Azure Active Directory, that verifies logins and controls access to Microsoft 365, Azure,…

  • Attackers impersonate popular AI brands to spread malware

    Attackers impersonate popular AI brands to spread malware 2026-08-21 at 14:47 By Sinisa Markovic Attackers are impersonating popular AI brands like Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to spread information stealers, backdoors, malicious browser extensions, and other malware, according to Sophos. Overview of MDR cases with AI involvement (Source: Sophos) Sophos X-Ops reviewed 12 months of…

  • Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows

    Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows 2026-08-21 at 14:21 By Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade’s defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation.…

  • Mamdani, the DSA and the Teamsters are lining up against Amazon in NYC — here’s how it could backfire spectacularly

    Mamdani, the DSA and the Teamsters are lining up against Amazon in NYC — here’s how it could backfire spectacularly 2026-08-21 at 14:00 By Charles Gasparino A local ordinance would ban the online retailer and similar businesses from using subcontractors for its deliveries.  This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York…

  • Brides are refusing to give up their fitness trackers at their weddings — and some are getting creative

    Brides are refusing to give up their fitness trackers at their weddings — and some are getting creative 2026-08-21 at 13:29 By McKenzie Beard Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue — and a wearable tucked in your garter to track the stress, too. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |…

  • Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0

    Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0 2026-08-21 at 13:03 By Cisco has published another round of security updates for Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload Software as part of a continued comprehensive internal security review. Four of the security vulnerabilities affect Crosswork Data Gateway, Crosswork Network Controller, and Crosswork Planning,…

  • Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers

    Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers 2026-08-21 at 12:23 By Ionut Arghire Hackers pushed a poisoned arrayref version that added a dependency to fetch a malicious payload from a remote server. The post Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from…

  • 5 AI Attack Patterns Organizations Can’t Ignore

    5 AI Attack Patterns Organizations Can’t Ignore 2026-08-21 at 12:00 By AI is rapidly changing the modern threat landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Strategy Bitcoin treasury hits breakeven point as BTC price passes $77K

    Strategy Bitcoin treasury hits breakeven point as BTC price passes $77K 2026-08-21 at 11:48 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin gains 20% in two days as Strategy sees its BTC treasury climb out of the red. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind

    Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind 2026-08-21 at 11:41 By Eduard Kovacs Two industry surveys released this week by Kiteworks and CyberSheath paint a consistent picture of the defense industrial base. The post Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article…

  • Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches

    Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches 2026-08-21 at 11:12 By Ionut Arghire Most of the fixes resolve code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. The post Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Citrix urges customers to fix critical NetScaler authentication bypass (CVE-2026-19490)

    Citrix urges customers to fix critical NetScaler authentication bypass (CVE-2026-19490) 2026-08-21 at 10:55 By Sinisa Markovic Citrix has patched two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical authentication bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2026-19490, and is urging customers to upgrade affected appliances as soon as possible. “We strongly recommend that customers review the…

  • Endpoint Blind Spots: The 5 Places Ransomware Hides Before It Detonates

    Endpoint Blind Spots: The 5 Places Ransomware Hides Before It Detonates 2026-08-21 at 10:51 By Ashish Khaitan Ransomware rarely appears out of nowhere. Before encryption, extortion, or data theft begins, attackers often spend time establishing access, stealing credentials, moving laterally, and identifying valuable systems. These activities occur during the ransomware pre-execution phase, when malicious activity…

  • Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October

    Bitcoin ETFs draw $608M as Ether ETFs see largest inflow since October 2026-08-21 at 10:50 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Bitcoin ETF inflows pushed August’s total to a 2026 high of $2.07 billion as Bitcoin traded above $75,000 and Ether climbed to $2,357. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities

    CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities 2026-08-21 at 10:25 By Ionut Arghire The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting the bugs to deploy the PhantomCore malware. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • GitLab 19.3 helps enterprises scale agentic development securely

    GitLab 19.3 helps enterprises scale agentic development securely 2026-08-21 at 10:12 By Industry News GitLab has announced updates that give enterprises more control as they scale agentic software development. GitLab Dedicated customers, who already run their most sensitive software delivery workloads on GitLab, can now run GitLab Duo Agent Platform inside that same single tenant…

  • GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure

    GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure 2026-08-21 at 10:04 By A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify…

  • Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution

    Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution 2026-08-21 at 09:06 By Microsoft on Thursday warned of a maximum-severity security flaw in Entra ID that it said has been exploited in the wild, but noted that no customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-69836 (CVSS score: 10.0), is…

  • A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains

    A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains 2026-08-21 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic A phrase on a suspicious website turned into an investigation of phantom banks built to support scams, according to new research from Allure Security. Molly DeQuattro, the company’s VP of Operations, was reviewing a domain that resembled the…

  • Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration

    Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration 2026-08-21 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprises believe they are prepared for the security challenges posed by quantum computing, but gaps in ownership, testing and visibility could complicate their transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), according to new research from Axiad. Who owns PQC migration? (Source:…

  • New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026

    New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026 2026-08-21 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, and Tufin. NETSCOUT expands Adaptive DDoS Protection with outbound attack mitigation NETSCOUT has announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection…

  • Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist

    Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist 2026-08-21 at 01:06 By Associated Press Commanders of the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, believe free time to indulge in the latest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. This article is an…

  • Bitcoin breaks above 200-day moving average for first time since November

    Bitcoin breaks above 200-day moving average for first time since November 2026-08-21 at 00:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The BTC price reclaimed its 200-day moving average for the first time in nine months as its rally gained momentum after the US Treasury expanded its bond buybacks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News…

  • CFTC chair says agency will move forward on crypto regulation if CLARITY fails

    CFTC chair says agency will move forward on crypto regulation if CLARITY fails 2026-08-20 at 23:56 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Michael Selig said at a meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee that he had directed CFTC staff to explore developer protections and other crypto-related policies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

  • Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls

    Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls 2026-08-20 at 23:26 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Binance’s Agent OS lets AI agents access market data, execute trades and make payments while giving users control over permissions and account access. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

    Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads 2026-08-20 at 23:22 By The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation.…

  • Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

    Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts 2026-08-20 at 22:59 By Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within…

  • ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More

    ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More 2026-08-20 at 22:12 By A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to…

  • New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

    New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data 2026-08-20 at 21:12 By Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI’s Grok chatbot to send a user’s name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user…

  • US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin

    US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin 2026-08-20 at 20:43 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Analysts say the $40 trillion debt milestone could bolster Bitcoin’s long-term case, even as Treasury yields, dollar strength and liquidity remain key near-term drivers. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • How Retailers Are Approaching Modernization

    How Retailers Are Approaching Modernization 2026-08-20 at 20:00 By Modern difficulties are shaping how retail organizations approach modernization. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

    AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure 2026-08-20 at 19:59 By The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using…

  • UC Berkeley professor who criticized student math abilities admits to using AI to help write viral op-ed

    UC Berkeley professor who criticized student math abilities admits to using AI to help write viral op-ed 2026-08-20 at 19:31 By Titus Wu She said huge portions of her students are failing to keep up with college calculus and she’s forced to teach middle-school algebra and fractions to students. This article is an excerpt from…

  • Bitcoin miners pour billions into AI as capex outpaces revenue 15-to-1

    Bitcoin miners pour billions into AI as capex outpaces revenue 15-to-1 2026-08-20 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Nine public miners generated $341 million from AI and HPC operations in the first half of 2026 after spending more than $5 billion on capital assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

  • OpenAI confirms ChatGPT Outage

    OpenAI confirms ChatGPT Outage 2026-08-20 at 18:55 By On August 19, OpenAI confirmed a ChatGPT outage affecting users worldwide.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Most Americans say the Trump family’s crypto investments are not ‘appropriate’: Poll

    Most Americans say the Trump family’s crypto investments are not ‘appropriate’: Poll 2026-08-20 at 18:53 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright A new poll showed 63% of 1,166 Americans varied sharply along partisan lines, with a majority of Republicans saying it was appropriate for Trump and his family to invest in crypto. This article is an…

  • 9M Images Exposed by Facial Recognition Platform

    9M Images Exposed by Facial Recognition Platform 2026-08-20 at 18:00 By 450.2 gigabytes of data were exposed in a public database with no password protection or encryption. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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