3+ day, 10+ 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, 8+ 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…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (744+ words) LG TVs are facing scrutiny due to a video seemingly showing the devices’ capability to track users when the TVs are off. YouTube channel Gamers Nexus worked with Level1Techs, a technology-focused YouTube channel, and security researchers to analyze LG TVs’ tracking…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (369+ words) Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks. Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. Dustin Childs, a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (318+ words) In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test. Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge…...

1+ week, 2+ 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   (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…...

1+ week, 6+ day 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, 3+ 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…...