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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released security updates to patch 72 vulnerabilities in the Aruba Operating System (ArubaOS), including eight maximum-severity authentication bypass and code executio...
Whitehall wants tougher penalties and new powers over telecoms operators as Russian activity raises alarm
The critical-severity SQL injection flaw allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality and gain operator privileges. The post Attackers Exploit Third Arista VCO Zero-Day in Four Months ...
Indian digital trust company eMudhra has announced that it is exiting the global SSL/TLS certificate business and is offering customers certificates issued by Sectigo as an alternative, following the ...
The following article originally appeared on the Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the authors’ permission. Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull...
I wanted a simple overview of the Feature Update level for one of our customers' Windows clients; Intune reports didn't give me what I needed... In this blog post, I will show you the script I wrote f...
Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good
The PHP security team has shared mitigation measures for a new remote code execution vulnerability that affects systems with non-default configurations and has no patch. [...]
Two critical PHP flaws drew millions of exploit attempts as banks, airlines and agencies in Japan and Finland pulled sites offline. Admins should patch now.
By Iaros Belkin, Founder of Belkin Marketing Next month Belgrade will become the center of European AI. Big stages, big partners, investors in the room. DSC Europe 26 will take place in Belgrade from ...
This guide compares the 7 best Active Directory change auditing tools for monitoring, investigating and reversing changes across hybrid identity environments. Active Directory remains a critical contr...
Most Americans—more than 80%—don’t think that their elected officials care what they have to say. Change.org has been rebuilding its own platform to try to change that. The platform, founded in 2007...
A newly observed campaign by Microsoft Threat Intelligence shows how the China-aligned threat actor Storm-0940 used the open-source AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate and accelerate at...
Researchers tie PHP2Shell attempts to a Mirai botnet and show an ASLR bypass, but no successful compromise has been confirmed yet. The post Mirai Botnet Operators Join PHP2Shell Attacks as ASLR Bypass...
Key Points Introduction Infostealers commonly target browser passwords, session cookies, and cryptocurrency wallets. This malware combines those established capabilities with dedicated collection rout...
Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after it reaches the end of support in January 2027. [...]
A contractor fell into a reactor cavity and a bundle of fuel rods almost fell over.
iPhone Duo supports fast charging in both wired and wireless setups, but only with the right accessories. Here’s what Apple says you’ll need. more…
The region is demonstrating what happens when exploits accelerate but assurance does not.
A complaint I hear a lot from my millennial peers is that our parents didn’t teach us enough about money. I can say that personal finance wasn’t dinner table conversation in my house, and even as I we...
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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia’s APT28 hit NATO defense firms, PingCAP source code stolen, ShinyHunters negotiator probe. The post In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hi...
Rafael Rivera found that Microsoft's in-house design team made the 12th anniversary Windows Insider wallpapers in Photoshop for Mac. The copies I downloaded no longer show it, Microsoft designers have...
Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026. [...]
The PHP Project provides instructions to stop further RCE exploits in limited settings.
A judge in New Mexico has fined Meta $25 billion for its flouting of data privacy laws between 2010 and 2021, including its controversial passing of data to Cambridge Analytica. The action serves as...
Theatergoers have been fans of the line “Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war” since 1599. Now venture capitalists are coming around to the phrase. A new startup called Warhound has emerged fr...
OpenClaw, the AI digital assistant, is looking to establish itself as an essential tool for users — but if it is as profligate in its use of tokens as its creator, Pete Steinberger, then users could b...
Created by Claude with light editing by Tim O’Reilly Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s CTO, joined Tim O’Reilly at our recent AI Codecon to talk about open source AI. Mozilla, of course, is the nonprofit tha...
Move a DHCP server with Export-DhcpServer and Import-DhcpServer, keeping leases intact, then authorize the new server in Active Directory.
Millions of automated attacks are targeting a massive PHP flaw. Here is why reliance on legacy code exposes severe cracks in internet infrastructure. Automated botnets just launched millions of attack...
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1Password for Agents lets AI bots log into your accounts without exposing secrets. This passwordless agent authentication is a double-edged sword. 1Password just launched 1Password for Agents. It’s a ...
The php2shell flaw affects more than just websites and web apps and some of these manufacturers were apparently caught off guard.
Still moving data by spreadsheet? Find out what data integration software can fix- and what to check before adding another tool to your stack. TL;DR Data integration software connects information acro...
Audit SMB share permissions with Get-SmbShareAccess, flag Everyone and Full Control grants, and check the NTFS ACL before you revoke anything.
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Corporate phishing tests are common, but this one was especially cruel.
"Trust is slow to build and quick to lose," board chair Jack Leslie said.
We're excited to announce the public preview of alerts for Azure SQL Database in Database Hub, powered by Fabric Activator. Last month, we brought performance monitoring for Azure SQL to Database Hub....
iPhone Duo has arrived, and if you managed to snag Apple’s new foldable on launch day, here are our top recommendations for accessories. more…
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is building a facility where automated instruments will grow and study microbes, taking on some of the repetitive work scientists do by hand. When it opens...
Apple is publishing a slew of support documents today corresponding with the launch of iPhone Duo, as it does for every iPhone launch. The support documents cover Touch on iPhone Duo, troubleshooting ...
Known issue in the initial Version 2610 release Some databases may display an incorrect "There isn't enough memory or disk space" message when opening a report or exporting a report to PDF. A correcti...
An illustration shows a padlock in front of binary code on a laptop screen. | Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you under...
Microsoft is testing a cleaner File Explorer context menu that focuses on commonly used actions and reduces clutter.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes the LiteLLM 1.107.0 compromise, including Python startup hooks, credential theft, remote code loading, detections, and mitigations. The post Inside the LiteLLM 1...
Hi all. Jerry Devore dropping in for a minute to share some insights about the BlockNtlmv1SSO setting that went into effect with the October 2026 update. Why the change was necessary When MS-CHAPv2...
Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version. Important Note: Due to technical d...
Many enterprises don’t have an AI problem. They have a science-project problem: pilots of Copilot, agents, and AI apps everywhere, too few in production, and more agents than they can easily see or go...
After three years of Russian GPS jamming over Europe's eastern flank, NATO has decided its crews need to train against the real thing.
Fixing the critical PHP flaws is not as simple as clicking "Update." Here's how to assess your risk, and what you can do to protect yourself.
Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
The US government has ordered civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products and related services over concerns about Chinese intelligence access.
Pentagon memo: Insider trading gives US enemies key intel on military operations.
We've totally got things under control
In a new post on the WebKit blog highlighting what’s new in Safari 27.1, Apple’s Jen Simmons said the company is exploring ways to let websites make better use of the iPhone Duo’s outer display. Here ...
Disruption of foreign tech through disinformation, cyberattacks, and sabotage could be the future of this new Pentagon office.
Microsoft will start rolling out AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection in Microsoft Teams in early November 2026, according to a Microsoft 365 Message Ce Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. Th...
Google has promoted ChromeOS 156 to the Stable channel, according to the Chrome Releases blog, bringing most supported Chromebooks to platform version 16836. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The p...
Blizzard will raise the stack size of Prime Evil Splinters in Diablo 4 from 1 to 99 with patch 3. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Blizzard Raises Diablo 4 Prime Evil Splinter Stack Size ...
Two former Amazon real estate managers have resolved their six-year legal fight with the company, acknowledging they received personal payments tied to data center deals they handled and apologizing f...
Google has released ChromeOS 156 for supported Chromebooks, adding Gemini-powered Talk to Type and media summaries on Chromebook Plus. Talk to Type turns speech into polished text in web fields, while...
Microsoft Teams will begin rolling out AI-powered phishing detection in early November, targeting higher-risk conversations such as chats from external users contacting someone for the first time. Unl...
PHP has assigned a third remote code execution flaw, CVE-2026-115560, to the PHP2Shell story, but says its unusual prerequisites do not warrant an emergency patch. The first two PHP2Shell flaws receiv...
As OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face, the system meant to monitor them had serious blind spots. The findings build on incidents in which two coding agents suppressed alerts or removed monitoring: ME...
OpenAI has restarted frontier-model training in an offline environment, but tests found agents could still communicate between virtual machines by signaling through processor cache timing. The move fo...
BlackX, a UEFI bootkit targeting Windows systems, can still exploit the patched Baton Drop flaw when organizations have not applied the required Secure Boot revocation. The campaign targeting diplomat...
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere wit...
We've got robotics updates from Unitree, Tesla, and Figure, as the companies announce their latest progress.
Microsoft wants Outlook Classic users on the new Outlook, and Enterprise users get it by default from March 2027. After three days, offline mail and PST archives work with caveats, COM add-ins and VBA...
Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
ChatGPT's new Locked Chats feature can stop other people from reading your conversations, but protecting the information inside them requires additional privacy precautions.
This week's PHP crisis should be a wake-up call for anyone thinking AI won't pose unprecedented security risks. I explain in simple terms what happened, why it matters for the future, and what you can...
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Guest post by Niresh Swamy, Enterprise Analyst, ManageEngine I know some of you might roll your eyes at someone who grew up in the Gen Z “free internet” era, ranting about the privacy perils Gen Alpha...
LiteLLM, an open-source gateway that connects applications to large language models, traced its compromised 1.107.0 release pipeline to a master key exposed in a public repository in May and never rev...
The Brotli flaw behind Node2Shell affects more than Node.js: vulnerable copies also ship in Bun, Python packages, Envoy and Istio. Researchers demonstrated code execution on one Node.js build, as cove...
Microsoft Teams now lets teams use GitHub Copilot to investigate repository issues, implement fixes, and prepare pull requests from a channel. New controls for meeting AI and tenant-wide meeting templ...
The iPhone Duo made its appearance yesterday, Friday, October 23, 2026, running iOS 27.1, also released at the same time for the iPhone Duo only. In this time of rapid release of patches, it’s good to...
Millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell hit within hours of public disclosure, but the PHP Foundation had not seen successful attacks. The flaws had been known for years; AI-assisted research helped...
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
Microsoft communications chief Frank X. Shaw, who is leaving the company at the end of the year, reflects on nearly three decades of shaping its public image. He talks about working for Bill Gates, St...