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Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility

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Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility 2026-08-10 at 13:01 By Eduard Kovacs CERT.PL said this appears to be the first instance of a private APN being used as an attack vector. The post Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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OpenAI risks White House relationship with hiring of ‘nuisance’ AI policy executive: sources

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OpenAI risks White House relationship with hiring of ‘nuisance’ AI policy executive: sources 2026-08-10 at 13:00 By Thomas Barrabi Ball infuriated Trump AI officials last month after claiming that the White House should create “regulatory risk” — or new rules imposing consequences on US firms — to discourage use of Chinese AI models. This article […]

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CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability

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CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability 2026-08-10 at 12:31 By Ionut Arghire The critical-severity flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default

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Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default 2026-08-10 at 12:13 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic will make auto mode in Claude Code the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14. Users who previously selected a different default may receive a one-time prompt asking whether […]

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The Crime Began Well Before the Breach

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The Crime Began Well Before the Breach 2026-08-10 at 12:00 By The image most security professionals still carry of perimeter crime is the opportunist: the actor who spots an open gate, grabs what is within reach, and flees. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack

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Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack 2026-08-10 at 11:55 By Ionut Arghire Using social engineering, a threat actor accessed the computers of three employees and exfiltrated data from them. The post Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials

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Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials 2026-08-10 at 10:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below – helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-pro Although […]

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UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report

OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities

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OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities 2026-08-10 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot rule out the model reaching the critical capability level for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework. The […]

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GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems

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GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems 2026-08-10 at 10:01 By Mirko Zorz GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because GitHub’s malware detection only ever watched one ecosystem. That changed this month. […]

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Modern Wireless-First Security Solutions Deliver Multiple Benefits for Mixed-Use Properties

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Modern Wireless-First Security Solutions Deliver Multiple Benefits for Mixed-Use Properties 2026-08-10 at 10:00 By The most common longstanding security and safety challenges of mixed-use properties generally fall into 4 categories. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause

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OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause 2026-08-10 at 08:50 By OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the […]

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Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain

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Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain 2026-08-10 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what the build produced, uploads those files to content-addressable […]

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Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model

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Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model 2026-08-10 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enpass is a password manager that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, identities, secure notes, software licenses, and other sensitive information in encrypted vaults. Vaults remain on the device or in a cloud storage service selected by the […]

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Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People

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Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People 2026-08-10 at 07:44 By Eduard Kovacs The vulnerabilities affected software used by eight of Belgium’s ten largest banks and over 60 government agencies. The post Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article […]

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BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9

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BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9 2026-08-10 at 03:32 By Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com […]

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Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’

Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads

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Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads 2026-08-10 at 00:22 By Zain Khan The California senator is pulling the ConnieChan.ai chatbot and related ads after the campaign stunt overshadowed his attacks on his congressional rival’s record on housing and transit. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology […]

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Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies: poll

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Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies: poll 2026-08-09 at 21:44 By Reuters The poll, which was conducted over the six days ended Aug. 3, comes as companies like Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube face mounting legal pressure over their treatment of young users. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

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Apple testing China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks: report

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Apple testing China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks: report 2026-08-09 at 21:01 By Reuters Apple held early talks with CXMT, which is China’s largest chipmaker by market value, about supplying components with the goal of using them in some devices sold in China, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. This article is […]

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