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OpenAI drops ChatGPT text chat limits for free users, adds new safeguards for teens

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OpenAI drops ChatGPT text chat limits for free users, adds new safeguards for teens 2026-08-07 at 11:52 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol, the model behind ChatGPT for Plus and Pro subscribers, and pushed a new model, GPT-5.6 Luna, out to everyone using the free tier. The company is also removing the rate […]

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August 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do we deal with the patch apocalypse?

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August 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do we deal with the patch apocalypse? 2026-08-07 at 09:00 By Help Net Security July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-setting in so many ways. The sheer volume of security patches for almost every product in the Microsoft portfolio was the highest ever and, of course, well over 600 CVEs

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What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like

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What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like 2026-08-07 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of enforcement might bring. He explains why corrective orders

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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months

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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months 2026-08-07 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the number was 2,354. The count fell across April, May,

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026, part two

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026, part two 2026-08-06 at 20:50 By Help Net Security Round two from Black Hat USA 2026. This set covers the parts of the show floor that did not make the first gallery. Scroll through below. Featured vendors: BlackCloak, Teleport, GitGuardian, Oak, Hexnode, Picus Security, Featured speaker: Kate Silverstein (Mozilla) discussing

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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic

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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic 2026-08-06 at 17:07 By Sinisa Markovic A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading apps associated with Papyrus (Source: IAS Threat Lab) While a person taps

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026

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Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 2026-08-06 at 16:30 By Help Net Security Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. The second gallery is here. Featured vendors: Stellar Cyber, Tines, Filigran, Delinea, Prophet AI, Air Security, Legion Security. Featured people: Kunal

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Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

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Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken 2026-08-06 at 15:45 By Mirko Zorz Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a test, it often passes. Roughly one time

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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison

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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison 2026-08-06 at 15:30 By Sinisa Markovic A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley Moucka, also known as “Waifu” and “Judische,” 26, of Kitchener, Ontario,

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Pre-auth RCE in enterprise Java hits Bonita and OFBiz servers

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Pre-auth RCE in enterprise Java hits Bonita and OFBiz servers 2026-08-05 at 21:45 By Mirko Zorz An attacker sends a single web request to a Bonita server and lands inside an internal API that assumed nobody could reach it. The request arrives unauthenticated. From there the attacker runs code on the host. Bonita BPM handles

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Top product launches at Black Hat USA 2026

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Top product launches at Black Hat USA 2026 2026-08-05 at 18:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Black Hat USA 2026 is underway in Las Vegas, and vendors are using the moment to unveil what they hope will define the next year of defense. Here are the announcements drawing the most attention on the ground, and why they

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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime

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INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime 2026-08-05 at 15:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion mobile subscriptions and over $1.1 trillion in digital transactions in 2025, while more than 570

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AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests

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AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests 2026-08-05 at 15:05 By Zeljka Zorz “During a routine cyber evaluation, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations,” UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed on Tuesday. The agents’ actions included an attempted supply-chain attack that saw them create

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Code review used to be the only way to catch these bugs

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Code review used to be the only way to catch these bugs 2026-08-05 at 14:30 By Mirko Zorz An automated system called NOVA read the source code of 3,915 open-source projects over two months and came back with 14,090 vulnerabilities, each one confirmed through the system’s validation pipeline. Vulnerability researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit

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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic

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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic 2026-08-05 at 12:35 By Mirko Zorz TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the Omada cloud service returns the

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Bank of America impersonators weaponize ScreenConnect, then make it hard to remove

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Bank of America impersonators weaponize ScreenConnect, then make it hard to remove 2026-08-05 at 11:43 By Zeljka Zorz A phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America (BoA) is underway, trying to trick Windows users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software and then making it difficult to uninstall it. Different traps for Mac and Windows users By

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Cloudflare gives AI agents wallets with built-in spending controls

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Cloudflare gives AI agents wallets with built-in spending controls 2026-08-05 at 10:54 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cloudflare’s Wallets will give AI agents running on its platform a human-readable wallet handle for paying APIs and online content within limits set by their creator. Handle reservations have opened, while the service will become available in the coming months.

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Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents

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Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents 2026-08-05 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register with Future AGI on first boot and send an instance ID, a version string, a deployment type, and

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Product showcase: Material unifies Google Workspace email, file & OAuth defense

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Product showcase: Material unifies Google Workspace email, file & OAuth defense 2026-08-05 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the attack that gets you won’t look like an attack. It’ll look like a normal login, a normal file share, a normal permission request you clicked past without reading. You don’t have a

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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how 2026-08-05 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The

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