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A tale of two cities: San Francisco banning data centers, while Santa Clara is building more 2026-09-19 at 00:31 By Vivi Lin Santa Clara collects an estimated $29.5 million a year from server farms which gets spent on police, parks, libraries and other resident services. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |…

Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root 2026-09-19 at 00:22 By A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few…

Inside the phony, incestuous web of woke AI ‘watchdogs’ that Anthropic claims will save us from an AI apocalypse 2026-09-18 at 23:11 By Thomas Barrabi Redwood Research – a Berkeley, Calif.-based group that co-authored a bombshell report last month detailing how a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hacked rival firm Hugging Face – is one…

Tech watchdogs cry foul as Google’s adtech monopoly left intact by judge: ‘Embarrassing capitulation’ 2026-09-18 at 21:28 By Thomas Barrabi US District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s 106-page decision ordered Google to share more data about its ad auctions with publishers and appoint an independent antitrust monitor to police its business practices, among other changes. The order…

New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution 2026-09-18 at 19:56 By WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without…

Part 1: Why “Less Is More” in Symantec PAM Clustering 2026-09-18 at 19:20 By Mickey Why adding nodes to your primary site hurts performance, and how to scale with secondary sites instead This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Edge Processing Is Quietly Changing Physical Security — Here’s Why It Matters 2026-09-18 at 19:00 By Examining edge and cloud processing in detail, including the benefits and trade-offs of each.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

‘Human GPS’ can pinpoint precise spot where obscure photos are taken, ‘might be FBI.’ 2026-09-18 at 18:56 By Ben Cost He found the owner’s lost “dog.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2 2026-09-18 at 18:24 By The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the…

Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation 2026-09-18 at 17:47 By Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. “Missing authentication…

An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It. 2026-09-18 at 17:47 By In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network.  The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not…

Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding Agents 2026-09-18 at 17:47 By A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin’s code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed…

The Best Way to Thank Security Officers Is to Give Them the Support They Deserve 2026-09-18 at 16:05 By National Security Officer Appreciation Week is about more than recognition. It’s about giving officers the tools and support they need to succeed. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original…

Larry Ellison’s about-face on an Oracle stock sale sparks chatter in Silicon Valley, Hollywood  2026-09-18 at 14:00 By Charles Gasparino Was this Ellison being crazy like a fox? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage 2026-09-18 at 13:40 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the…

Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer 2026-09-18 at 12:40 By A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. “The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM),…

Beyond 1999: The Case for AI-Augmented Vulnerability Orchestration 2026-09-18 at 12:00 By Threat actors use AI and automation to weaponize flaws in milliseconds. Meanwhile, defensive teams remain shackled to spreadsheets, ticket chains, and 30-day approval cycles.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root 2026-09-18 at 10:21 By A critical vulnerability in Check Point’s Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Management Server is the system that controls firewall…

ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories 2026-09-18 at 10:21 By Attackers keep finding new keys. The funny part is that defenders keep inventing where to store them. This week, those keys sit in AI tools, exposed services, old bugs, weak logins, and software sold like a monthly…

Critical Docker Sandboxes Flaw Lets Malicious Guest Code Read and Modify macOS Host Files 2026-09-18 at 10:21 By Malicious code running inside a Docker Sandboxes virtual machine on macOS could escape the project directory shared into it and read or change files anywhere else on the host, Docker warns in a security announcement on September 15. The…

Iran-Linked Handala Hack Tied to HEAVYGRAM Telegram Backdoor That Can Steal Passwords 2026-09-18 at 10:21 By The Iran-linked “hacktivist” persona known as Handala Hack has been attributed to a Telegram-based surveillance backdoor called HEAVYGRAM and a Delphi-based utility known as CRUDEEXCLUDE. “HEAVYGRAM offers builtin commands supporting remote command execution, system, network and process information discovery,…

Australia iPhone 18 launch descends into chaos as line-cutter claims he’s first in world to buy device: ‘I’m the first!’ 2026-09-18 at 09:42 By News.com.au He spent hours camped outside the flagship store only to watch a rival line-jumper barge past him in the dash for the doors, phone held aloft, declaring himself the world’s…

RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstall 2026-09-18 at 09:17 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that’s assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate and control compromised devices. “Distributed primarily via targeted smishing (SMS/text phishing) and…

AI protesters rally outside Dreamforce conference in San Francisco as tech bosses shrug off fears 2026-09-17 at 23:45 By Annie Gaus AI critics took to San Francisco streets Thursday to call for action on the rapidly advancing technology, but their protest drew only a small crowd as some tech CEOs shrugged off rising alarm about…