OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by what it described as a "highly capable
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gateway LiteLLM. Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on August 27,
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed player
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Thursday, August 27
I've been tasked with finding a url/hash/file scanner for our company and I'm looking to reddit to get some advice. Currently our environment is relying on venders for analyzing url's is based off VirusTotal, Hybrid Analysis and a free version Joe Sandbox. We were approved for a paid version of Joe Sandbox, but the cost of that was unknown and now that we've learned the price there is concerns that they will not approve it. Looking for sandbox tools and companies that can breakdown url's on par with Joe Sandbox or better. [Any.Run](http://Any.Run) is a site we started looking into, but with their origins in Russia there are security concerns with that. Looking for recommendations that anyone in the field could provide for us to look into. Currently the lead runners are Cloud Lite Joe Sandbox, Any\[.\]Run and Falcon Sandbox. Thank you in advance
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by what it described as a "highly capable
After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.
Big Pineapple , the platform behind 1.1.1.1 , Gateway DNS , DNS Firewall , AS112 , and several other Cloudflare DNS services, stores over 250 billion DNS cache entries at any given time. At that scale, wasting a single byte per entry costs more than 250 gigabytes of memory across our fleet. Five successive changes to how cache entries are stored in memory cut the per-entry footprint by over 50%. Across our fleet, these changes freed up roughly 100 terabytes of memory, equivalent to the amount of RAM in 130 of our Gen 13 servers . The cache also got faster. Insert throughput rose 43% and lookup latency dropped 19%, as fewer allocations and better memory locality meant we did not trade speed for space. What we cache On cold start, Big Pineapple starts out with an empty cache. As DNS queries arrive, the cache fills until it hits its maximum entry count, at which point we evict older or less popular items to make room. The exact cache size varies by data center. When EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) is in use, authoritative servers return different answers depending on the client's network, so we cache multiple versions of the same query. This increases both the number of entries and the memory each one
Credit: Hacktron Vercel has released security patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Next.js web framework, both of which allow unauthenticated remote code execution, one exploitable via specially crafted AVIF image files and the other through a path traversal flaw affecting servers that use a Windows filesystem. The Windows path traversal, tracked as CVE-2026-75604&
A fake login page. A fake security scan. A fake productivity app. Apparently, pretending to be useful is still one of the easier ways into a machine. The rest of the week gets stranger: botnets borrowing AI, command traffic hiding in public infrastructure, malicious tools waiting before showing their real behavior, exposed systems getting scanned, and exploit windows shrinking again. Different
In 2026, insider threats are probably a bigger risk than you think. In fact, they could cost your organization $19.5 million a year. But it’s not really a problem with hackers, spies, or malicious employees. Instead, it’s about negligence, training, and IT privileges. Often, the most expensive mistake is a stolen credential doing exactly what […] The post 50+ insider threat statistics for 2026 appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Russian-speaking cybercriminals used SpaceX’s Cursor AI tool to hack seven companies - https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-speaking-cybercriminals-used-spacexs-cursor-ai-tool-hack-seven-companies-2026-08-27/
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, according to Mindguard. The latest version of
Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through weaknesses faster than traditional security processes were built to handle. The challenge is no longer just finding another vulnerability or
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gateway LiteLLM. Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, and Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on August 27,
AI is officially mainstream in security operations. According to Prophet Security's State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report (produced from ViB’s survey of 250+ cybersecurity pros), 40% of security teams now use AI daily. Another 56% are currently testing it out, and only 4% have no plans to adopt it. For the teams already using AI, what is actually changing? Here are the ten biggest
Individuals and organizations in Cambodia have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an open-source remote access trojan (RAT) called Spark RAT. "The samples employ diverse lure themes, suggesting an effort to appeal to a broad range of potential victims. These include government notices, public health materials, real estate-related content, and other topics," Acronis Threat
Getting PCI DSS Requirement 11.4 Right From the Start Enterprises often know they need PCI compliance penetration testing but remain uncertain about what makes a test compliant. PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 involves considerably more than scheduling an annual external assessment. Scope, internal and external testing, methodology, tester qualifications, segmentation validation, remediation, retesting, and evidence all influence whether the work will satisfy assessor scrutiny. This guide explains what enterprise security and compliance teams should have in place before their next PCI DSS assessment. Introduction PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 requires documented internal and external penetration testing, generally at least annually and after significant changes. Segmentation controls need separate testing where segmentation reduces cardholder data environment scope, and service providers face a shorter six-month cycle. Vulnerability scanning does not replace penetration testing, and exploitable findings need correction and retesting. Confirm your exact obligations with your QSA before treating any single testing model as sufficient evidence. The post PCI DSS Penetration Testing Requirements: What Enterprises Actually Need for Compliance appeared first on Synack .
[https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/security-bulletin-27-aug-2026-urgent-security-advisory/](https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/security-bulletin-27-aug-2026-urgent-security-advisory/) (For those unaware, PaperCut is a print management platform used globally across many different verticals) Impacts all NG/MF versions of PaperCut. Not a lot of detail on the page yet, but some IoCs are provided. Hopefully most people don't have their PaperCut instance publicly accessible.
Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communications organization in Venezuela. GoCaracal provides operators with remote shell access and payload execution, while the extended profile adds browser data theft, keylogging, remote desktop control
Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service (DoS) and privilege escalation to a root shell. Dubbed GPUThor, the attack was developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, who hammered four DRAM
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2019-1068 - A remote code execution vulnerability in
Wednesday, August 26
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified an ongoing campaign delivering a previously undocumented custom backdoor against Afghan telecom providers and South Asian critical infrastructure organizations. The backdoor, tracked as PATCHCORD, is a compiled C/C++ implant delivered through sector-specific lures, including fake VPN installers impersonating Afghan Telecom (AFTEL) and telecom management tools. The research is published here - [https://www.acronis.com/en/tru/posts/patchcord-new-malware-cluster-targets-afghan-telecom-and-south-asian-critical-infrastructure/](https://www.acronis.com/en/tru/posts/patchcord-new-malware-cluster-targets-afghan-telecom-and-south-asian-critical-infrastructure/)
China’s hacking campaign targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, the Justice Department, and more, according to the DOJ.
Twistlock founders Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel and John Morello are shutting down their newest startup Minimus. They raised 51 million in seed funding from YL Ventures and Mayfield and had around 60 employees a few months ago. The pitch was stripped down container images that cut out most CVEs before they ever shipped but commercial traction never caught up to the technical story. Customers get a 60 day window before the registry goes fully offline on October 22 and remaining cash is going back to investors. Founder pedigree and funding clearly do not guarantee product market fit. Anyone else surprised this one did not make it?
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian APT groups in 2026. Nimbus Manticore (aka
US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate, and more - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-by-us-justice-department-says-2026-08-26/?utm\_source=braze&utm\_medium=notifications&utm\_campaign=2025\_engagement So Winnie the Pooh isn't quite as friendly
☢️ Philippine Nuclear Agency and Naval Contractor Targeted by Suspected Chinese-Speaking Operator Using Known Vulnerabilities
The [Hunt.io](http://Hunt.io) research team documented an intrusion set that left its tooling and stolen data in a publicly reachable open directory. Two Philippine organizations were targeted: a nuclear research body (compromised through ownCloud CVE-2023-49105) and a marine engineering company contracted to the Navy (hit via LiteSpeed Cache CVE-2024-28000 and an XML-RPC brute force). Recovered material included reactor core component databases, radiation safety documents, employee PII, and credential stores, with a CSV referencing roughly 9 GB exfiltrated. Simplified Chinese ran through the operator's scripts, logs, and folder names. A separate, possibly unrelated EtherHiding compromise was also active on the same WordPress site, with 174 unique IPs found hosting the same loader. Full research, IOCs, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping: [https://hunt.io/blog/chinese-speaking-operator-philippine-nuclear-naval-contractor](https://hunt.io/blog/chinese-speaking-operator-philippine-nuclear-naval-contractor)
Open directory held custom exploit tooling and an EtherHiding loader used against Philippine targets
The [Hunt.io](http://Hunt.io) research team found an open directory staging the tooling behind an intrusion into a Philippine nuclear agency and a naval contractor. The custom pieces: a stage-1 ELF loader (multi\_backupd) that pulls a Mettle stage-2 over TCP, a Go build of the CVE-2024-28000 LiteSpeed Cache exploit with a PHP-parity MT19937 implementation, and five Python scripts abusing ownCloud CVE-2023-49105 via empty-secret pre-signed URLs. Sliver, Metasploit, and Mettle were also staged on the host. Separately, on the compromised WordPress site we found an active EtherHiding loader. A malicious script pulls ethers.js from public CDNs and reads HTML from an Ethereum smart contract, rendered via the NoChain framework impersonating a Google verification page, then runs a ClickFix-style lure launching mshta. A HuntSQL query on the contract address returned 174 unique IPs hosting the same loader. Hashes, domains, and full IOCs: [https://hunt.io/blog/chinese-speaking-operator-philippine-nuclear-naval-contractor](https://hunt.io/blog/chinese-speaking-operator-philippine-nuclear-naval-contractor)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed player
The SOC we've always known was built around a model that guarantees most of the alert queue will never receive analyst review. There's never time. In a traditional SOC, the typical progression follows a well-known pattern: an alert arrives; a detection engine assigns a severity score. The issue then waits for a human to decide if it should escalate to an investigation. Given the volume of
As part of Patch the Planet , we received preview access to GPT 5.6-Cyber with a simple task: evaluate its cyber capabilities. Recent events inspired me to give it a challenge to work through: escape the VM I’d normally use for sandboxing. The target was a QEMU/KVM VM on my Linux dev machine (Debian Linux 12, AMD Zen3). It escaped the VM three different times. First, it used recently disclosed bugs in my host kernel. When I fully updated, it used disclosed bugs that had not yet reached package maintainers or were not classified as security bugs. When I rebuilt QEMU and dependencies from the latest upstream source, it found several 0-days. It operated autonomously for hours, backtracked from approaches that didn’t work, pulled code and research papers, wrote oracles, made its own minimal examples, and aimed for a reusable, reliable exploit, all with minimal handholding and prompting. My main job was to physically reboot the machine when it hardlocked the host kernel. If it wasn’t clear before, I will state it plainly: you can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent. To use a 2010s term of art, you should treat such agents as an advanced persistent threat. Advancing cybersecurity capabilities Let’s imagine a common situation: you want to run an AI agent, but need its full capabilities, including the ability to download, build and debug software; do research; sift through dependencies; set up fuzzers; triage vulnerabilities; and stand up services under different configurations. The generally accepted solution is to set up a
Aikido Security has published research that recreates the Australian gym-booking incident in a synthetic environment, finding that Claude Opus 4.6, running on the OpenClaw agent harness, exploited a client-side-only booking restriction in 9 of 10 runs. The original incident was first reported by ABC News on August 10, based on chat logs and screenshots the user supplied. He had asked an
OpenAI on Tuesday said it banned a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to bypass access restrictions and run an influence operation, which relied on its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate social media posts and comments that were shared on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn. The accounts "were being used to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a
An eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects. "The operation, which brought together 22 countries from six continents, is a response to the escalating global threat posed by West African criminal networks – such as the Black Axe and other similar groups," INTERPOL said. "These groups are
It’s tempting for MSPs to write off event sponsorship in education as a waste of money. You sponsor an event, hand out flyers, follow up with an email, and hear nothing back. Rick Cowell says you’re judging it on the wrong timescale. Rick spent 20 years as a school network manager, and he founded the […] The post The Planting Seeds philosophy. Selling into schools takes years, not quarters appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Tuesday, August 25
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here: Cyber Alert ‼️ US - 헖헮헿헵헮헿혁혁 ShinyHunters hacking group claims to have compromised Carhartt and allegedly stolen more than 50 GB of compressed data containing millions of customer records, employee information, customer metadata, loyalty-related information, and… pic.twitter.com/BvzsEQS54l — Hackmanac (@H4ckmanac) August 13, 2026 My usual Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) workflow after a breach emerges is to run our open source Email Address Extractor tool over the corpus of data, get a count of the unique addresses then drop it into the processing pipeline. Having a count helps prioritise: it's roughly the same effort to process a breach with 10M addresses in it as it is 100k
A few years ago, Dow's cyber engineering team made the switch from point-in-time pentesting to continuous coverage for their high-value assets. How'd they do it? By partnering with Synack. And keep in mind this was before the recent wave of AI-powered pentesting solutions. Dow was ahead of the curve. The post How Continuous Pentesting Became Standard Practice at Dow appeared first on Synack .
Illinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.
We found and reported a bug in Provenance Blockchain, a public proof-of-stake chain built on Cosmos SDK , that lets any user grant themselves admin control over marker accounts without holding a single token. Provenance covers a range of financial services, including on-chain tokenized loans, private equity tokens, bridged assets, and asset registries. Our bug affected 82 markers representing live financial assets on mainnet. We found the bug, which affects versions before 1.28.0, in March 2026, and reported it to Provenance on April 1. It was mitigated in PR #2627 (commit c81fd65 ), which shipped in v1.28.0 on May 1, 2026, and fixed in PR #2734 , which shipped in v1.29.0 on June 8, 2026. What is a marker? The marker module is Provenance’s core primitive for fungible tokens. Chain participants can issue a new asset on Provenance by submitting a MsgAddMarkerRequest transaction; the chain creates a dedicated account for that asset, called a marker. Each marker is a special account type that controls: A denomination (e.g., uusd.trading , cusd.deposit , cguaranteedrateomni ) An access control list governing who can mint, burn, withdraw, deposit, or administer the token A supply field recording the canonical token count An escrow balance (the marke
Some months ago, I performed a web application penetration test on an application that used passkey for authentication. As part of the assessment, I also tested the passkey implementation and noticed some unusual behavior. During the debugging process, I created two short JavaScript helper functions that can be used to hook the browser APIs involved in passkey operations, allowing the passkey configuration to be inspected and manipulated. This gave me the ability to reliably perform some passkey tests and assess the configuration and implementation. “Fishing with a Passkey ”
Hey everyone, Over the last few months, I've been curating and categorizing a massive catalog of malware families designed specifically for incident responders, SOC analysts, and threat hunters. I got tired of having to scrape together fragmented IOCs and CISA advisories every time a new variant popped up, so I built a centralized, open-source dataset. \*\*What's included:\*\* \* \*\*2,800+ Malware Families\*\* categorized by type (Ransomware, InfoStealer, Wiper, etc.) \* \*\*Framework Mapping:\*\* Families are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, NIST CSF guidelines, and official CISA advisories. \* \*\*Response Playbooks:\*\* Actionable containment steps and "what to avoid" during an active incident. \* \*\*Formats:\*\* Available via a web UI, JSON API, Parquet, and JSONL. It’s completely free and Apache-2.0 licensed. You can browse the catalog here: [https://jordanricky1604-ship-it.github.io/malware-families-catalog/](https://jordanricky1604-ship-it.github.io/malware-families-catalog/) I'd love to hear your feedback on the schema or if there are specific families you think need deeper analysis. I'm actively maintaining and updating this!
Monday, August 24
You likely noticed the recent redesign of the Cloudflare Blog. We added dark mode, modernized the look and feel, and made a lot of other small improvements along the way. What you might not have noticed – well, except for those who are more terminally online – is that the redesign was part of a much bigger migration project. On Wednesday, August 12, we moved the blog to EmDash , a content management system (CMS) built especially to work on Astro and with Cloudflare. We’ll take you into the migration story – what we learned and how EmDash got better – as well as into the benefits we’re already seeing from a new platform. We are Customer Zero At Cloudflare, Cloudflare itself is Customer Zero. This means that we use our products. And – in use – we make them better for ourselves and our customers. This is a very real cultural value at Cloudflare. The burden of proof is on you if you want to use an external vendor. Why can’t that team support you, what gaps are there, why can’t those gaps be filled, and are those “gaps” true requirements? This preference is even enshrined in our internal engineering standards, known as our Codex. We don’t just build products for others; we build them to run Cloudflare itself. We are our own first, most demanding customer. We validate scale, security, and usability on our own massive infrastructure before a paying customer ever touches the product. If a product breaks, it breaks us first. This forces us to fix issues immediately, ensuring that by the time a feature reaches the enterprise, it has already survived the harshest production environment on earth. With the launch of EmDash and some limitations with our
Before dawn on 10 July 2024, one ransomware attack took down ten schools inside the same multi-academy trust at once. Every control that eventually stopped it was something the Department for Education’s own cyber security standard already asked for, well before the attack. That’s a case DfE has published on its own Cyber Security Hub, […] The post What the DfE’s cyber security update means for multi-academy trusts appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Overview Konami's Metal Gear Online 3 video game contains a heap-based buffer overflow that can be triggered by an input‑validation vulnerability that allows match hosts to remotely execute arbitrary code on lobby members' machines through specially crafted data. Description Metal Gear Online 3 is an online 8 vs. 8 competitive shooter game that uses Steam Matchmaking to handle its multiplayer lobbies and matches. As detailed in CVE‑2026‑19874 , version 1.1.2.8 of Metal Gear Online 3 (Steam AppID 287700) contains an input‑validation vulnerability in the processing of Steam lobby metadata related to the player‑removal feature. The game tracks a lobby field ( kick_num ) indicating the number of players designated for removal, along with corresponding Steam ID entries of each kicked player ( kicked_id_%i ). When joining a lobby, the player's client parses these fields to check whether its own Steam ID is on the list, and if so, the player is prevented from joining the match. The function responsible for parsing this lobby data does not validate the kick_num value against the size of the fixed‑length buffer allocated for kicked player identifiers. Supplying a kick_num value larger than the buffer capacity results in out‑of‑bounds writes into adjacent memory. The memory region immediately following this buffer contains internal Steamworks callback handler structures that store function pointers and callback arguments for processing lobby data changes, messages, and other related events. By manipulating the overflow, an attacker can corrupt these handler structures and redirect callback execution, resulting in control‑flow hijacking on affected client systems. The vulnerability can be triggered automatically w
Proofpoint catches malicious traffic and blocks data exfiltration well, with solid coverage for business email compromise, phishing, and malware. But it’s built for the enterprise, and it shows. G2 reviewers flagged a steep learning curve and steep pricing, and suggested Proofpoint’s support would need improving. The platform’s also in flux. Proofpoint closed a $1.8 billion […] The post 9 Proofpoint alternatives. Pros & cons of the leading options appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite I genuinely think I've nailed the IoT door lock situation! Well, Ubiquiti has, but I think I've worked out how to put it all into a residential house and have it make sense. There are a few basic tenets: Main power (never have to rely on batteries) Fail-secure (needs to remain locked on power outage) Local control (no cloud latency to contend with) Manual override ("the house is on fire, let me out") Which is exactly what we have here in this week's vid (and sorry about the section of rubbish audio; the camera mic started capturing it for a short period there). There are some edge cases I want to validate the impact of, namely the inability to keep the door both closed and unlocked, and some of the assumptions I've made around access methods. The laundry will be our low-impact test case; then, if that's all good, I'll start rolling this approach out much more seriously across the house. Stay tuned, I think this will actually be pretty awesome.
Sunday, August 23
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against the data in HIBP, helping identify exposed government accounts and respond when they appear in new data breaches. As with the other governments already using the service, this is about using breach data for good: giving national cyber teams practical visibility into their public sector exposure and supporting their work to protect government services.
Saturday, August 22
Plus: Apple sends out an “unprecedented” number of spyware warnings, Ukraine hits a Russian ecommerce giant with cyber and drone attacks, and more.
Friday, August 21
We’re constantly building for the different goals of our customers. Some customers want to optimize for discovery, while others want to protect their content with the strictest security policy. Among these differing policies, there are multiple ways to mitigate bot traffic. Some mechanisms simply state your preference, assuming best intent from crawlers, and other approaches actually lock down content by outright blocking with a Bot Management solution. We recognize that it's cumbersome to maintain multiple layers of protection on your website. For example, there are cases in which your robots.txt states that a crawler is Disallowed from accessing your website, while your enforcement rules actually don’t block that crawler. When your stated preferences and your enforced rules disagree, some crawlers treat it as a basis to disregard your preferences or try to bypass your enforced rules. A couple of years ago, Cloudflare announced an easier way to disallow AI training on your website by tackling two of these layers: a managed value of robots.txt that told a fixed list of major Training crawlers not to train on your content, along with edge-enforced blocks to Training crawlers. On July 1, 2026, we launched easier options to manage different kinds of AI traffic use cases. You can say what you want to do about Search, Agent, and Training traffic on your website. We're announcing Bot Preference Sync , available to all customers from the Free tier to Enterprise. Bot Preference Sync reflects what you've set in your AI bot configuration by updating corresponding preferences to your robots.txt, and it can be turned on or off at any time. No more static file for one use case: we'll help you tailor your robots.txt to reflect what you’ve already configured for different AI bot categories . New questions facing the Internet For years, the most pressing question in this space was: "
Overview The Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG router running firmware EXOS/6.6.47 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that exposes its UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) WANIPConnection service on the public WAN interface. Description Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG is a residential gateway that provides routing, NAT, and firewall functionality for home networks. The device includes the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) service implemented via MiniUPnPd 2.3.7, a lightweight software program that provides features such as automatic port forwarding for applications and devices on the LAN. By default, the UPnP service is exposed on the device’s WAN interface and does not require authentication. CVE-2026-75501 In affected firmware versions, the router binds its UPnP WANIPConnection SOAP service to the public WAN interface on TCP port 5000. Because the service does not require authentication when accepting SOAP requests, a remote attacker can obtain full access to the router’s critical UPnP functions including adding, deleting, and enumerating NAT port mappings. Impact CVE-2026-75501 enables an unauthenticated, remote attacker to remotely query and manipulate existing NAT mappings. By exploiting this vulnerability to create arbitrary port-forwarding rules on the router, an attacker can bypass NAT and firewall protections, exposing internal LAN devices to the public internet. Because the Calix router is typically provisioned with its default UPnP-enabled configuration, this issue poses significant risk to residential users with network-connected internal devices such as security cameras, network-attached storage (NAS), and other IoT appliances. Solution Unfortunately, the CERT/CC was