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Bluesky Disrupted by Sophisticated DDoS Attack

Bluesky Disrupted by Sophisticated DDoS Attack 2026-04-20 at 14:37 By Eduard Kovacs A pro-Iran hacker group has taken credit for the attack on Bluesky, which appears to have lasted 24 hours.  The post Bluesky Disrupted by Sophisticated DDoS Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Senate Extends Surveillance Powers Until April 30 After Chaotic Votes in House

Senate Extends Surveillance Powers Until April 30 After Chaotic Votes in House 2026-04-20 at 14:37 By Associated Press The Senate approved a short-term renewal until April 30 of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies. The post Senate Extends Surveillance Powers Until April 30 After Chaotic Votes in House appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Half of the 6 Million Internet-Facing FTP Servers Lack Encryption

Half of the 6 Million Internet-Facing FTP Servers Lack Encryption 2026-04-20 at 14:37 By Ionut Arghire The continued use of the half-century-old protocol exposes enterprises and end users to various types of attacks. The post Half of the 6 Million Internet-Facing FTP Servers Lack Encryption appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Anthropic MCP Design Vulnerability Enables RCE, Threatening AI Supply Chain

Anthropic MCP Design Vulnerability Enables RCE, Threatening AI Supply Chain 2026-04-20 at 14:37 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical “by design” weakness in the Model Context Protocol’s (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. “This flaw enables Arbitrary

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Palantir’s NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break

Palantir’s NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break 2026-04-20 at 12:33 By Lindsay Clark £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform The UK government is considering ending Palantir’s involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners.…

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Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing 2026-04-20 at 12:33 By Carly Page Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK’s power grid into a bottleneck.… This article is an excerpt from

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Researchers Detect ZionSiphon Malware Targeting Israeli Water, Desalination OT Systems

Researchers Detect ZionSiphon Malware Targeting Israeli Water, Desalination OT Systems 2026-04-20 at 11:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called ZionSiphon that appears to be specifically designed to target Israeli water treatment and desalination systems. The malware has been codenamed ZionSiphon by Darktrace, highlighting its ability to set up persistence, tamper with local

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Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss

Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss 2026-04-20 at 11:16 By Anamarija Pogorelec Meta Bug Bounty and PortSwigger have formed a partnership to help security researchers sharpen their skills, collaborate more closely, and improve vulnerability discovery. The initiative combines Meta’s bug bounty program with PortSwigger’s Burp Suite, reflecting a shared

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Hackers Fail to Exploit Flaw in Discontinued TP-Link Routers

Hackers Fail to Exploit Flaw in Discontinued TP-Link Routers 2026-04-20 at 11:16 By Ionut Arghire In-the-wild exploitation has been ongoing for a year, but no successful payload execution has been observed. The post Hackers Fail to Exploit Flaw in Discontinued TP-Link Routers appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise 2026-04-20 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit

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Saylor teases ‘bigger’ BTC buy days after floating semi-monthly dividends

Saylor teases ‘bigger’ BTC buy days after floating semi-monthly dividends 2026-04-20 at 10:31 By Cointelegraph by Stephen Katte Strategy’s Michael Saylor posted “Think Even Bigger” on Sunday, coming just a week after it disclosed $1 billion of Bitcoin buying. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Coinbase is testing AI agents that show up on Slack and email

Coinbase is testing AI agents that show up on Slack and email 2026-04-20 at 10:31 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Brian Armstrong has now predicted that AI agents will not only transact onchain more than humans but will outnumber employees at his company very soon. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers

EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers 2026-04-20 at 10:30 By Sinisa Markovic The European Commission is stepping up efforts to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a cloud services tender worth up to €180 million over six years. The initiative gives EU institutions and agencies access to sovereign

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Cloud hosting firm Vercel confirms ‘limited’ hack of user info

Cloud hosting firm Vercel confirms ‘limited’ hack of user info 2026-04-20 at 09:14 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan Vercel has confirmed it was compromised after a member of a hacking forum put the company’s information up for sale for $2 million. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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The quantum gap: Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths on security

The quantum gap: Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths on security 2026-04-20 at 09:14 By Cointelegraph by Dilip Kumar Patairya Why Bitcoin and Ethereum are taking different paths to address future cryptographic risks and long-term blockchain security. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Polymarket in talks to raise $400M at a $15B valuation: Report

Polymarket in talks to raise $400M at a $15B valuation: Report 2026-04-20 at 09:14 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea Polymarket’s potential $15 billion valuation would still put it below the $22 billion valuation of competitor platform Kalshi in its latest funding round. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer 2026-04-20 at 09:14 By Simon Sharwood Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working

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SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines

SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines 2026-04-20 at 09:14 By Mirko Zorz Boost Security has released SmokedMeat, an open-source framework that runs attack chains against CI/CD infrastructure so engineering and security teams can see what an attacker would do in their specific environment. What the tool does SmokedMeat takes a flagged

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