September 18, 2026

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