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The quiet Rust migration reshaping Linux from the inside out — and why it matters for security
Ubuntu is replacing core Linux tools with Rust. Here’s how memory safety could strengthen security without breaking familiar commands and scripts.…
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from ethnic minority backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees…
Arrakis raises $8M for AI agent runtime security
Torq and Palantir veterans raised an $8 million seed round to build runtime monitoring, policy enforcement and kill switches for enterprise AI agents.…
Iran suspected of conducting cyberattacks on US water suppliers in 45 municipalities — small towns mostly targeted, with utilities switching to manual control
Two can play the game.…
Show HN: Handoff is await human() for AI agents
await human() for AI agents: when an agent hits a wall, a real phone rings and a person takes the wheel in its live browser. - OmegaAgent/handoff…
AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them
Apple is limiting simultaneous bug reports as AI floods its security team with questionable findings, even while the same tools uncover genuine Mac vulnerabilities that demand patc…
8 Best Password Managers (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Keep your logins locked down with our favorite password management apps for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, and web browsers.…
Is your home safe this summer? Security tech expert Chris Price shows how to expand a single camera into a budget-friendly home defence setup for when you're away on vacation
Peace of mind on the beach.…
Should AI be formally recognized as a national and global security threat? In London, politicians increasingly think so
Days After Deadly Shooting, Seattle Tightens Security on Festivities
Trump blames Tim Walz for water hacks even though it’s probably Iran
As usual, the president offered no evidence of his off-the-cuff accusations.…
US reporter fighting back after border patrol seized his cell phones
Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online posts…
Show HN: Aurora – AI Gateway built in Go
The Fastest enterprise AI gateway — route LLM traffic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq & 30+ providers via a single API. Self-hosted, no vendor lock-in. ( 55x faster than…
Anthropic's Claude hacked three real-life companies during security capabilities test — test environment with internet access and unwitting targets' lax cybersecurity practices led to bots running rampant
Impressive hacking skills on display, but the incidents illustrate a lack of 101-level cybersecurity practices…
This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired)
A Field Guide to the AI Security Market
The market for products that secure AI is crowded and hard to read, with overlapping categories and products that each do many jobs. With the AI Defense Matrix, you can ask the rig…
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud 'Foxboron' announced today he is resigning from the project.…
Cyberattacks hit water facilities in seven states across the US
The FBI has issued a warning after water facilities from seven states reported that they were hacked.…
Defcon's new badge is a security key you can see inside
A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.…
My 140 reused passwords finally came back to bite me. Here’s how I fixed it
Reusing passwords is easy to do — until 140 accounts using that same password get compromised. I recently learned this the hard way.…
Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement…
Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (Bloomberg)
Framework choice explains ~0.06% of agentic AI security outcome (7,020 trials)
Anthropic, OpenAI AI Sandbox Failures Expose Testing Risks - BankInfoSecurity
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…
Anthropic, OpenAI AI Sandbox Failures Expose Testing Risks - GovInfoSecurity
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FBI: Hackers Targeted Water Utility Providers in at Least 7 States
Hackers have been targeting internet-exposed computers known as programmable logic controllers, causing 'loss of pressure and flooding,' the FBI says.…
Policy expert urges transparency after AI hack, says lack of rules leave security gaps - National Desk
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Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena
DRAM read disturbance, like RowHammer and RowPress, is a critical robustness issue where accessing DRAM can cause unintended bitflips in other unaccessed DRAM locations. DRAM read …
AI Bots Can Steal Your Login Credentials, but You Can Protect Yourself
In just two days, OpenAI and Anthropic both issued apologies for their AI staging cyberattacks using scraped passwords or secrets. How do you protect yourself?…
Hamas vows to disarm — here are the five questions that could make or break the Gaza peace deal
If implemented, the road map to peace would mark the first time Hamas has formally agreed to dismantle its military wing since seizing control of Gaza in 2007.…
Anthropic, OpenAI Cyber Failures Point to US Security Risks - Bloomberg.com
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Claude vs. ChatGPT: Which AI Security Incident Was Worse
Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT models both hacked real companies in July 2026. We compare both incidents using the labs' own reports.…
AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company
Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".…
AI Policy Groups Urge White House Investigation Into OpenAI Security Incident - MeriTalk
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Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
An AI agent used a stolen Tailscale auth key at Hugging Face. Workload identity federation, flow logs, and safer defaults could have reduced the risk.…
AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says boss of hacked company
Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".…
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems…
Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
Keeper Security's top-rated password manager is now 50% off, and it's the best security upgrade you'll make this year
Personal and Family plans are half price for a limited time at Keeper Security, cutting the cost of doing passwords properly…
Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling
Panelists warned that anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling and AI.…
Security updates for Friday
Show HN: AI Security Breaches, the problems and it's causes
There has been a recent security breaches by Anthropic and OpenAI that they have problems in difficulty in working and handling with these advance AI models.…
AI is finding so many Chrome security flaws that Google may start updating it twice a week
These tools are scanning code at a scale and speed that were not previously possible. In at least one case, the technology exposed a flaw that had...…
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
The Arch Linux DevOps team has announced that adoption of orphaned packages in the Arch User Re [...]…
Why traditional security checks are failing in the age of AI-driven fraud
AI-driven deepfakes and synthetic IDs demand continuous fraud verification…
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts
A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff…
Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted
Last month the Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities am…
This Week in Security: What’s in a name, the AI Bugpocalypse Hits Everyone, OpenWRT flaws, and Duress Passwords
The great thing about standards is there’s so many to pick from, right?. (Insert obligatory XKCD #927 here.) Several companies have developed naming schemes to refer to groups of a…
Anthropic joins OpenAI in admitting loss of control in cybersecurity tests - IT Pro
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The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.…
Anything OpenAI Can Do, Anthropic Can Do Better - Security Boulevard
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'The VPN you can simply trust and forget about' — Norton VPN boosts security, speeds, and network in latest round of upgrades
The cybersecurity giant is wrapping up a busy first half of 2026 by upgrading its encryption, drastically cutting mobile connection times, and expanding its server network across A…
Enjoy a cleaner internet with this $40 all-in-one security suite
Make your internet experience faster, safer, and less annoying.…
British man accused of spying on Cyprus RAF base for Iran
Rashad Sultanov, a UK-Azerbaijan national, was arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of spying on RAF Akrotiri.…
Benchmarking Guardrails for AI Agent Safety
AI Agents extend large language models beyond text generation. They can call functions, access internal and external resources, perform deterministic operations, and even communica…
Claude went rogue during a test and broke into three real companies
Anthropic reveals Claude broke out of a test environment and hacked into three real companies, thinking it was still playing a game.…
Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations
Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem…