August 2026

Mosquito killer retailing for $988 swears to battle rising California West Nile threat 2026-08-27 at 23:59 By Christopher Edwards Earlier this month, the second Californian this year died from West Nile Virus. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

LAX Security Guard Found With 24 Pounds of Fentanyl, Facing Charges 2026-08-27 at 20:00 By A security guard was allegedly caught with fentanyl in the LAX restroom.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Learn How to Build Security Operations Ready for AI-Powered Attacks 2026-08-27 at 19:57 By Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through weaknesses faster […]

Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks 2026-08-27 at 19:57 By The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx […]

DOJ, NASA, Others Among Victims of Chinese State-Sponsored Hack 2026-08-27 at 19:00 By The DOJ and other federal entities were targeted by a Chinese state-sponsored actor. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Next.js Patches Critical AVIF and Windows Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE 2026-08-27 at 18:13 By Credit: Hacktron Vercel has released security patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Next.js web framework, both of which allow unauthenticated remote code execution, one exploitable via specially crafted AVIF image files and the other through a path traversal flaw affecting servers […]

ThreatsDay: 296K IoT Botnet, 100+ Water Systems Targeted, SharePoint RCE Chain + 27 New Stories 2026-08-27 at 18:12 By A fake login page. A fake security scan. A fake productivity app. Apparently, pretending to be useful is still one of the easier ways into a machine. The rest of the week gets stranger: botnets borrowing […]

Parents rip Meta’s attempt to curb children from its social media sites after historic $18B settlement: ‘Not enough’ 2026-08-27 at 17:14 By David Landsel, Faran Krentcil Tech giant Meta agreed to a historic $18B payout to 47 U.S. states on Wednesday — as part of an effort to settle claims that social media has harmed […]

Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers 2026-08-27 at 16:39 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE […]