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AI may soon allow humans to talk with animals — but some say it could violate their right to privacy 2026-09-06 at 22:47 By Ronny Reyes “One risk that is currently not taken into account in research ethics is the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by collecting data on their…

Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner 2026-09-06 at 13:01 By Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of them switches off Windows Update and Microsoft Defender…

Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication 2026-09-06 at 12:32 By Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska’s attack warning, published on September 5. Successful attacks date to at least September 2.…

Flock cameras could turn American neighborhoods into a ‘China-like surveillance state,’ ex-Pentagon AI chief warns 2026-09-06 at 04:55 By Fox News Mark Beall urges court oversight, strict guardrails on automated license plate readers used by law enforcement. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores 2026-09-05 at 23:14 By Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store’s server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5.…

Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code 2026-09-05 at 20:50 By Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an integer-overflow…

Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials 2026-09-05 at 19:52 By JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. “Cadence users should immediately revoke or…

Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers’ Data It Said Was Deleted 2026-09-05 at 18:47 By Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and…

Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel 2026-09-05 at 11:53 By A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a…

Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities 2026-09-05 at 10:31 By Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an…

PayPal to slash hundreds of California jobs as big money managers axed by tech giant 2026-09-04 at 22:08 By Annie Gaus Fresh layoffs at a Bay Area tech giant have gutted senior employees and engineers as part of a brutal 20% workforce reduction. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York…

Violence Prevention Program Led to 61% Decrease in City’s Gun Violence 2026-09-04 at 19:00 By Richmond, California’s Office of Neighborhood Safety achieved a 61% reduction of the city’s gun violence.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says 38K ChatGPT queries only use amount of water it takes to grow an almond 2026-09-04 at 18:59 By Taylor Herzlich The billionaire tech leader was discussing rampant backlash online against AI companies during an appearance on a Tuesday episode of the new “Sources” podcast with host Alex Heath. This article…

Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters 2026-09-04 at 18:57 By Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. “Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to…

PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution 2026-09-04 at 18:20 By PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since…

Tesla shares slump 6% after feds launch probe into new Cybercabs without steering wheels 2026-09-04 at 18:15 By Reuters The probe comes after Tesla on Thursday began commercial deployment of a small number of the two-seater Cybercab and said it planned to gradually expand the service to additional vehicles. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |…

New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims’ Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic 2026-09-04 at 17:51 By A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant…

‘We were warned’: Robot launches wild kung-fu attack against customer in frightening clip 2026-09-04 at 15:00 By Ben Cost In Russia, the machine rages against you. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

California to Regulate AI Chatbot Toys Marketed at Children 2026-09-04 at 15:00 By California could regulate AI chatbots for children, pending Governor Gavin Newsom’s approval.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

World Cup Insights 2026-09-04 at 13:42 By Security executive James Weston discusses intelligence-led security and lessons learned at FIFA World Cup. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws 2026-09-04 at 13:42 By Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are – CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A missing file type validation vulnerability in…