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Product showcase: LuLu reveals unauthorized outbound connections from Mac apps

Product showcase: LuLu reveals unauthorized outbound connections from Mac apps 2026-04-27 at 07:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec LuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS that lets you control which apps are allowed to send data from your computer. macOS includes a built-in firewall, but it mainly handles incoming connections. LuLu also monitors outgoing traffic. Installing […]

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Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now 2026-04-27 at 04:57 By Brandon Vigliarolo Join us for this week’s Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos KETTLE  If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this

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Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT’s expense

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT’s expense 2026-04-26 at 15:06 By Avram Piltch The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance opinion  You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and

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Week in review: Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Vercel breach

Week in review: Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Vercel breach 2026-04-26 at 12:27 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines Boost Security has released SmokedMeat, an open-source framework that runs attack chains

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Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work

Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work 2026-04-25 at 17:17 By Thomas Claburn AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks

China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks 2026-04-25 at 14:57 By Ionut Arghire Dubbed GopherWhisper, the group relies on multiple Go-based backdoors alongside custom loaders and injectors. The post China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data 2026-04-25 at 12:49 By Jessica Lyons Coming in cold with custom Snow malware A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics – Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation – is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according

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Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software

Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software 2026-04-25 at 12:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment centrifuges. According to a new report published by SentinelOne, the previously undocumented cyber sabotage framework dates back

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CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline

CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline 2026-04-25 at 11:19 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of

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DeepSeek’s new models are so efficient they’ll run on a toaster … by which we mean Huawei’s NPUs

DeepSeek’s new models are so efficient they’ll run on a toaster … by which we mean Huawei’s NPUs 2026-04-25 at 01:03 By Tobias Mann Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1 Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance

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Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi has entered production, Elon Musk says

Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi has entered production, Elon Musk says 2026-04-24 at 23:27 By Thomas Barrabi Splashy promotional videos shared on X by Tesla and Musk showed the robotaxi, which doesn’t have a steering wheel or pedals, drive itself off the factory floor at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. This article is an excerpt from

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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys

Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Sinisa Markovic In a decisive move that could reshape how users log in online, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging consumers to abandon passwords in favour of passkeys, positioning them as the future of authentication. “Passkeys should become consumers’

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Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild

Indirect prompt injection is taking hold in the wild 2026-04-24 at 23:26 By Zeljka Zorz The open web is slowly but surely filling up with “traps” designed for LLM-powered AI agents. The technique, known as indirect prompt injection (IPI), involves hiding (more or less) covert instructions inside ordinary web pages, waiting for an AI agent

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Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs 2026-04-24 at 20:54 By Brandon Vigliarolo What, you didn’t expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever? Drones: they’re not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today’s full-ocean-depth AUV systems.… This

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Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps

Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps 2026-04-24 at 20:54 By Liam Proven New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon,” the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu

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