Gavin Newsom dragged to court in self-driving truck battle that could change state forever 2026-08-06 at 22:26 By Titus Wu Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration improperly rolled out regulations that pave the way for self-driving trucks on state roads, the union claimed. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View […]
New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts 2026-08-06 at 20:58 By Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is
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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026, part two 2026-08-06 at 20:50 By Help Net Security Round two from Black Hat USA 2026. This set covers the parts of the show floor that did not make the first gallery. Scroll through below. Featured vendors: BlackCloak, Teleport, GitGuardian, Oak, Hexnode, Picus Security, Featured speaker: Kate Silverstein (Mozilla) discussing
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Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.8 CVSS Score Bugs 2026-08-06 at 20:13 By Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device
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‘Nostradamus of AI’ Leopold Aschenbrenner makes new $400M bet after Situational Awareness fund’s near-collapse 2026-08-06 at 19:56 By Thomas Barrabi Leopold Aschenbrenner, has made a new $400 million bet on a private company – just days after the near-implosion of his hedge fund, according to a report. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology
New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs 2026-08-06 at 19:17 By An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researchers
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ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories 2026-08-06 at 18:24 By Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled
Building Trust in AI Starts with Trustworthy Data 2026-08-06 at 18:00 By Enterprise AI is transitioning from the “does it work” phase to the “how can we adopt it safely” phase, creating an unprecedented and complex mix of opportunities and challenges for business leaders. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court 2026-08-06 at 17:56 By Eduard Kovacs Connor Riley Moucka was extradited to the United States in July 2025 after he was arrested in Canada. The post Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic 2026-08-06 at 17:07 By Sinisa Markovic A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading apps associated with Papyrus (Source: IAS Threat Lab) While a person taps
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The Detection Gap: MITRE ATT&CK T1053.005 2026-08-06 at 17:00 By Kirk Hasty MITRE ATT&CK Walkthrough: T1053.005 (Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task) This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source
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Day in the Life of a Cybersecurity Director: Turning Intelligence into Action 2026-08-06 at 17:00 By Kenneth Ng When people hear the word cybersecurity, they often picture analysts racing to stop an attack in real time. Those roles are absolutely critical, but a lot of effective security happens long before an alert ever appears. This
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Release the RAVEN: Exploiting the Cracks 2026-08-06 at 17:00 By Karl Biron In Part 1, we went from a single open port to a complete map of the target. Version, topology, indices, secrets, credentials, privilege structure — all of it documented, all of it ready to be weaponized. Reconnaissance is finished. Now we find out
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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 2026-08-06 at 16:30 By Help Net Security Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. The second gallery is here. Featured vendors: Stellar Cyber, Tines, Filigran, Delinea, Prophet AI, Air Security, Legion Security. Featured people: Kunal
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Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts 2026-08-06 at 15:54 By Eduard Kovacs Zenity researchers reported the findings to Anthropic and OpenAI in late 2025 and early 2026, but they remain unpatched. The post Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts appeared first
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Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken 2026-08-06 at 15:45 By Mirko Zorz Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a test, it often passes. Roughly one time
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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison 2026-08-06 at 15:30 By Sinisa Markovic A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley Moucka, also known as “Waifu” and “Judische,” 26, of Kitchener, Ontario,
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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities 2026-08-06 at 15:16 By Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844
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Podcast: Compliance Won’t Save You: The Future of Cyber Risk with Edna Conway 2026-08-06 at 15:00 By SecurityWeek News (Video) In this podcast, we share insights from Edna Conway, a recognized leader in cybersecurity and supply chain resilience with over 40 years of experience in the field. The post Podcast: Compliance Won’t Save You: The
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CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps 2026-08-06 at 14:49 By Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery
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