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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data 2026-08-20 at 21:12 By Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI’s Grok chatbot to send a user’s name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user […]

How Retailers Are Approaching Modernization 2026-08-20 at 20:00 By Modern difficulties are shaping how retail organizations approach modernization. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure 2026-08-20 at 19:59 By The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using […]

UC Berkeley professor who criticized student math abilities admits to using AI to help write viral op-ed 2026-08-20 at 19:31 By Titus Wu She said huge portions of her students are failing to keep up with college calculus and she’s forced to teach middle-school algebra and fractions to students. This article is an excerpt from […]

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT Outage 2026-08-20 at 18:55 By On August 19, OpenAI confirmed a ChatGPT outage affecting users worldwide.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

9M Images Exposed by Facial Recognition Platform 2026-08-20 at 18:00 By 450.2 gigabytes of data were exposed in a public database with no password protection or encryption. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE 2026-08-20 at 16:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability (“GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4”), which […]

Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers 2026-08-20 at 16:35 By Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler […]

Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution 2026-08-20 at 16:24 By A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of […]

Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments 2026-08-20 at 15:01 By Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of […]

Why “Shady AI” is Security’s Next Big Governance Problem 2026-08-20 at 14:45 By In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it.  The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on […]

What Happens When Two Iconic Brands Unite? 2026-08-20 at 13:00 By Monica White Symantec® CBX is the perfect marriage of Symantec and Carbon Black® technologies into a unified XDR platform This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Apple News, Google promote outlets that endorse Dem presidential candidates — while shutting out Republicans: study 2026-08-20 at 13:00 By Thomas Barrabi The most-promoted news outlets on Apple News and Google News haven’t endorsed a Republican in the last 10 presidential elections — the latest sign of alleged anti-conservative bias, according to a new analysis. […]

Abdul El-Sayed reveals he would take socialist plan a ‘step further’ than Bernie Sanders for key US industry 2026-08-20 at 04:38 By Fox News El-Sayed said he wanted to “take it a step further” than Bernie Sanders’ public ownership model for a major US industry. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

Mission to save NASA’s aging Swift space telescope called off after rescue spacecraft loses control 2026-08-20 at 00:30 By Associated Press The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York […]

Amazon expanding lightweight drone delivery to 500 US cities with potential 30-minute wait times for packages 2026-08-20 at 00:18 By Associated Press Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon said in a news release. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on child safety, ex-employee testifies in historic trial 2026-08-19 at 23:43 By Thomas Barrabi Arturo Béjar, a former Meta safety researcher who has become one of its biggest critics, told jurors in California federal court that Zuckerberg did little to address the harmful effects of Facebook […]

Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’ 2026-08-19 at 22:53 By Ariel Zilber Anthropic has reportedly overtaken OpenAI in quarterly sales for the first time — a stunning reversal for the ChatGPT maker in its bitter rivalry with the startup founded by a group of its former employees. This article is an […]

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second 2026-08-19 at 22:02 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an […]

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior 2026-08-19 at 21:06 By OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging […]