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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads 2026-08-10 at 00:22 By Zain Khan The California senator is pulling the ConnieChan.ai chatbot and related ads after the campaign stunt overshadowed his attacks on his congressional rival’s record on housing and transit. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies: poll 2026-08-09 at 21:44 By Reuters The poll, which was conducted over the six days ended Aug. 3, comes as companies like Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube face mounting legal pressure over their treatment of young users. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |…

Apple testing China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks: report 2026-08-09 at 21:01 By Reuters Apple held early talks with CXMT, which is China’s largest chipmaker by market value, about supplying components with the goal of using them in some devices sold in China, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. This article is…

Nancy Pelosi rages at ‘sexist and racist’ AI chatbot mocking her would-be successor 2026-08-08 at 20:06 By Titus Wu A parody artificial intelligence chatbot launched by a candidate trying to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress was taken down Friday after the former House speaker attacked the bot for being “sexist.” This article is an excerpt from…

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers 2026-08-08 at 11:54 By Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of…

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens 2026-08-08 at 11:03 By New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over…

Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication 2026-08-08 at 09:58 By Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated…

N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist 2026-08-08 at 09:57 By N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. “We are proactively expanding protections in response…

Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts 2026-08-08 at 09:52 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS…

ClickFix Attacks Deliver macOS Stealer That Can Drain Crypto Wallets 2026-08-08 at 04:49 By ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the…

UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data 2026-08-08 at 04:49 By A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services is attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. “UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk…

Yahoo News’ AI-powered tool drew just 3% of its articles from conservative outlets: study 2026-08-07 at 22:46 By Thomas Barrabi Media Research Center – a conservative watchdog that has previously called out Apple News, Google and other aggregators for alleged bias – conducted a review of the “Yahoo 100” feed. The tool “uses AI to…

Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer 2026-08-07 at 21:48 By A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. “These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly…

11 Reasons Native Telemetry Correlation Matters in XDR 2026-08-07 at 21:45 By Shanleigh Reardon The best XDR doesn’t just collect signals—it connects them This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

This new ‘AI’ chatbot is actually just one very tired guy 2026-08-07 at 21:43 By Bianca Zalben The tongue-in-cheek project is advertised on a $6,000 San Francisco billboard, and was launched as a commentary on society’s increasingly automatic reliance on artificial intelligence. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post…

New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution – Patch ASAP 2026-08-07 at 15:56 By WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server…

Growing Up The Hard Way 2026-08-07 at 14:55 By Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered…

18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers 2026-08-07 at 14:10 By A use-after-free bug in Linux’s SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since…

Tish James, Kathy Hochul’s pursuit of Kalshi raises questions about why they’re ignoring Polymarket 2026-08-07 at 14:00 By Charles Gasparino Kalshi argues the suit is a death blow to its business. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

I tested the new Samsung Galaxy Watch9: The health tracker’s most exciting features 2026-08-07 at 12:59 By Carly Stern The new watch, on sale today, tracks fitness and sleep, measures antioxidants in the skin, and an even do a body composition scan. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post…

New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables 2026-08-07 at 12:32 By Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA…

Stop, Drop, and Roll 2026-08-07 at 12:00 By Insights from national fire prevention standards for active shooter prevention. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access 2026-08-07 at 11:52 By Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, disclose victim IP addresses and mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented…

Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets 2026-08-07 at 11:18 By A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic’s and Google’s own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI’s, it was enough to hijack the next agent…