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When ransomware hits, confidence doesn’t restore endpoints

When ransomware hits, confidence doesn’t restore endpoints 2026-05-18 at 07:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ransomware, supply chain vulnerabilities, insider threats, compliance failures, and software disruptions remain major concerns for security leaders, according to The Ransomware Reality: Zero Days to Recover report by Absolute Security. How CISOs currently ensure endpoint resilience against ransomware (overall, %) (Source: Absolute […]

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Debian 13.5 point release lands with security fixes, bug patches

Debian 13.5 point release lands with security fixes, bug patches 2026-05-18 at 01:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec Debian 13.5 is the fifth point release for the stable distribution “trixie.” The update folds in roughly 100 Debian Security Advisories and corrections for more than 130 source packages, covering everything from the Linux kernel and Apache HTTP Server […]

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NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE

NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE 2026-05-17 at 18:32 By A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer […]

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AI advances are breaking into the physical world – and robots will soon learn how to do your washing and ironing

AI advances are breaking into the physical world – and robots will soon learn how to do your washing and ironing 2026-05-17 at 16:09 By Michael Kaplan A tech VC said, physical AI is “the challenge of figuring out how to reinvent the physical world. It’s a big challenge.” In describing Project Prometheus, he added, […]

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Week in review: Cisco patches SD-WAN 0-day, unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw exploited

Week in review: Cisco patches SD-WAN 0-day, unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server flaw exploited 2026-05-17 at 14:40 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Review: Foundations of Cybersecurity, 2nd edition Jason Andress has refreshed his introductory security text for No Starch Press. He writes […]

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Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt

Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt 2026-05-17 at 14:39 By Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company’s GitHub environment and download its codebase. “Our investigation has determined that no customer data or personal information was accessed during this […]

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Funnel Builder Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables WooCommerce Checkout Skimming

Funnel Builder Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables WooCommerce Checkout Skimming 2026-05-16 at 19:49 By A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild to inject malicious JavaScript code into WooCommerce checkout pages with the goal of stealing payment data. Details of the activity were published […]

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Fast16: Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Tool Was Built to Subvert Nuclear Weapons Simulations

Fast16: Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Tool Was Built to Subvert Nuclear Weapons Simulations 2026-05-16 at 17:33 By Threat Hunter Team New analysis confirms the targeted applications and reveals fast16 was tailored to corrupt uranium-compression simulations central to nuclear weapon design. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

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AI influencer salaries revealed, with one making $9k-a-month — but which has he most personality?

AI influencer salaries revealed, with one making $9k-a-month — but which has he most personality? 2026-05-16 at 14:44 By Jeanette Settembre “It’s a new category of creators and their ability to monetize in unique ways,” ex celebrity manager Clarissa Mansbridge told The Post.  This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York […]

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PoC Code Published for Critical NGINX Vulnerability

PoC Code Published for Critical NGINX Vulnerability 2026-05-16 at 14:43 By Ionut Arghire Introduced in 2008, the critical-severity security defect was patched this week in NGINX Plus and NGINX open source. The post PoC Code Published for Critical NGINX Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX accelerates timeline for blockbuster Nasdaq IPO

Elon Musk’s SpaceX accelerates timeline for blockbuster Nasdaq IPO 2026-05-15 at 23:47 By Reuters The accelerated schedule pulls forward a process that had originally been planned for around late June, around Elon Musk’s birthday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

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Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access

Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access 2026-05-15 at 20:32 By The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that’s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), […]

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Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence

Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence 2026-05-15 at 19:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Claw Chain by Cyera, can permit an attacker to establish a foothold, expose […]

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Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square discloses Microsoft stake, touts ‘deeply embedded’ software

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square discloses Microsoft stake, touts ‘deeply embedded’ software 2026-05-15 at 18:31 By Thomas Barrabi Ackman, 60, wrote in a lengthy X post that Microsoft operates “two of the most valuable franchises in enterprise technology” in the form of its 365 productivity apps, which include Word and Excel, and its Azure cloud-computing business. […]

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In Other News: Big Tech vs Canada Encryption Bill, Cisco’s Free AI Security Spec, Audi App Flaws

In Other News: Big Tech vs Canada Encryption Bill, Cisco’s Free AI Security Spec, Audi App Flaws 2026-05-15 at 18:30 By SecurityWeek News Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Nvidia cloud gaming data breach, Android 17 security upgrades, FBI warning after ShinyHunters hacks Canvas. The post In Other News: Big Tech […]

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GCC Cyber 2026: How Digital Banking Expansion Is Creating a New Attack Surface Attackers Are Already Exploiting

GCC Cyber 2026: How Digital Banking Expansion Is Creating a New Attack Surface Attackers Are Already Exploiting 2026-05-15 at 17:46 By Ashish Khaitan The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has spent the last several years building one of the world’s most ambitious digital economies. Across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, governments […]

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Google lets Workspace admins apply one policy across all SAML apps

Google lets Workspace admins apply one policy across all SAML apps 2026-05-15 at 16:07 By Sinisa Markovic Google has updated Context-Aware Access (CAA) in Google Workspace to introduce a default policy assignment for SAML applications. SAML applications are third-party or internal applications that use the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol to enable single sign-on […]

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Cisco patches another actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20182)

Cisco patches another actively exploited SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20182) 2026-05-15 at 16:07 By Zeljka Zorz Cisco has patched yet another Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20182) that has been exploited as a zero-day by “a highly sophisticated cyber threat actor”. About CVE-2026-20182 CVE-2026-20182 – affecting both Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (the “brain” of the Cisco […]

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