4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (379+ words) App support is slim right now, but Google says more are coming. As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (116+ words) A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors. A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (186+ words) A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use. A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (350+ words) Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying. A prominent US senator is asking the National Security Agency to provide guidance to the general public on best practices for using virtual private networks to secure their…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (165+ words) The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time. Not long ago, I rented an SUV from a well-known car rental company. Within hours of an employee scanning my driver’s license, a high-resolution scan…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (670+ words) What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty. Hackers carried out a supply-chain attack that installed malware on networks using unusual technique: hijacking a chunk of Internet space used to update cloud-management software used by…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (272+ words) In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network. “Our researchers found that these residential proxy networks are not simply monetization tools,” Plume researchers wrote. “They are actively being used as a target for additional…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (536+ words) 227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns. Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of…...