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15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros

15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros 2026-07-08 at 09:16 By Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every mainstream distribution since […]

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Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure

Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure 2026-07-08 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, talks about protecting industrial systems where software runs water, chemical and manufacturing processes. She explains why a cyber incident in these settings can harm people, equipment and

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CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV

CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV 2026-07-08 at 08:33 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A path

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20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything

20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything 2026-07-08 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems themselves, from coding agents and memory protection to model exposure discovery. This roundup covers recent

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macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents

macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents 2026-07-08 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, digs up a release year, then quietly files a reminder, the

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How to implement a continuous offensive security testing program

How to implement a continuous offensive security testing program 2026-07-08 at 07:30 By Help Net Security The hard part was never finding the exposure. It was deciding what to do about it: whether to patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept, and banking that that decision would still hold tomorrow. A penetration test answers this question for

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OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions

OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions 2026-07-08 at 07:00 By Mirko Zorz Companies are handing routine operational decisions to AI agents that plan, remember, and act on their behalf. These agents run on statistical models, and their behavior can drift across weeks and months. That drift opens a security gap outside the reach

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CFTC charges commodity, crypto pool operator with $14M fraud

CFTC charges commodity, crypto pool operator with $14M fraud 2026-07-08 at 06:25 By Cointelegraph by Jesse Coghlan The CFTC has launched a rare crypto-related enforcement action against a commodity pool operator that allegedly defrauded investors of more than $14 million. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Strike launches ‘volatility-proof’ Bitcoin loans amid bear market, but at a cost

Strike launches ‘volatility-proof’ Bitcoin loans amid bear market, but at a cost 2026-07-08 at 05:40 By Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea The cost of eliminating margin calls and forced liquidations is an interest rate as high as 14.2% and an obligation to pay on time, Strike CEO Jack Mallers said. This article is an excerpt from

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Vanguard seeks digital assets chief after years of crypto skepticism

Vanguard seeks digital assets chief after years of crypto skepticism 2026-07-08 at 04:15 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The asset manager is hiring a head of digital assets to lead its strategy for tokenization, stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure and client-facing products. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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SEC crypto rule changes are high on its 2026 agenda

SEC crypto rule changes are high on its 2026 agenda 2026-07-08 at 00:39 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The financial regulator’s agenda included proposed rule changes related to crypto broker-dealers, digital assets on national securities exchanges and potential safe harbors. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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New Hampshire lawmakers to hold hearing on $100M Bitcoin bonds

New Hampshire lawmakers to hold hearing on $100M Bitcoin bonds 2026-07-07 at 23:45 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The proposed bonds to be backed by cryptocurrency still need approval from New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte and the state’s five-member executive council. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Meta says it’s facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case — a sum equal to tech giant’s valuation

Meta says it’s facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case — a sum equal to tech giant’s valuation 2026-07-07 at 23:21 By Thomas Barrabi Meta said it based the $1.4 trillion figure, which is nearly as large as the company’s entire market cap, on how the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky and

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USDT wins payments, USDC wins DeFi as stablecoins diverge: Dune

USDT wins payments, USDC wins DeFi as stablecoins diverge: Dune 2026-07-07 at 21:05 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Dune data shows Tether’s USDT has become crypto’s dominant payments stablecoin while Circle’s USDC powers DeFi, highlighting how blockchain choice shapes stablecoin use. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots

Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots 2026-07-07 at 20:59 By A critical flaw in Google’s Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google Cloud project. From there, they could read live conversations, steal

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RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service

RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service 2026-07-07 at 20:59 By A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim’s phone, steal their banking logins, and capture the one-time codes that protect their

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