Patching & Updates
17 August 2026
Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide
GitHub is down for some users as a widespread outage is causing errors across the website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and several other services. [...]
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17 August 2026
Certighost and the Privilege Hiding in Your Certificate Authority
CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier…
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17 August 2026
French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals
The French Ministry of the Economy and Finance has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems and stole data belonging to 678,000…
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17 August 2026
Microsoft Publisher: Life or death?
ISSUE 23.33 • 2026-08-17 SOFTWARE By Will Fastie In October, Microsoft will throw the kill switch for Publisher 365, which will prevent Publisher from opening — and thereby orphan Publisher files. In…
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16 August 2026
SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now…
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Patching & Updates
16 August 2026
New AmnesiaStealer macOS malware hijacks browser sessions via remote control
A new information-stealing malware called AmnesiaStealer, which targets macOS users via ClickFix attacks, includes a streaming module that allows the attacker to interactively control the victim's…
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Patching & Updates
14 August 2026
How Anthropic plans to watermark Claude's AI-generated text
It could soon become easier to identify AI-generated content, even if it's not the usual "It's Not X, it's Y" type of post you'd come across on LinkedIn and other socials. [...]
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Patching & Updates
14 August 2026
Hackers arrested over €30M bank fraud exploiting service provider flaw
Four cybercriminals were arrested in Brazil, and three others were charged in Europe over allegations that they exploited a vulnerability at a service provider, allowing them to withdraw funds from…
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Patching & Updates
13 August 2026
AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.
Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection…
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Patching & Updates
13 August 2026
Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 14,000 of its customers after ShipMonk, its shipping and logistics provider, was hacked [...]
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Patching & Updates
12 August 2026
Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts
Attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe's Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms have been detected, potentially allowing attackers to hijack customer accounts. [...]
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Patching & Updates
11 August 2026
August 2026 Security updates
Once again it’s time to pause, ensure we have our backups and review what has been released. Even if you no longer use Windows use a time of the month to review your browser updates, your operating…
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10 August 2026
It’s a good time to find a deal on an AMD laptop
ISSUE 23.32 • 2026-08-10 SILICON By Matthew S. Smith If you, like me, became familiar with PCs in the late 1980s or 1990s, then you no doubt have the blue Intel Inside logo seared into your brain.…
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Patching & Updates
7 August 2026
August 6, 2026 Apple Updates
On August 6, 2026, Apple released Updates for macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, macOS Sequoia 15.7.9, macOS Sonoma 14.8.9. Only eleven days ago, Apple released a massive number of patches for vulnerabilities in…
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Patching & Updates
6 August 2026
OpenAI rolls out a major ChatGPT upgrade, even if you don’t pay for it
OpenAI is rolling out a more reliable version of ChatGPT GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro users, while Free users are getting unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna. [...]
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Patching & Updates
6 August 2026
ClickFix attack pushes macOS infostealer for crypto theft attacks
A Go-based malware delivered in ClickFix attacks targeting macOS users is stealing cryptocurrency assets, browser-stored passwords, Apple Keychain data, and cached credentials. [...]
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Patching & Updates
6 August 2026
Hedge fund cyberattacks tied to BlackFile-linked UNC6671 extortion group
A recent wave of cyberattacks targeting hedge funds, private-equity firms, and other financial organizations has been linked to UNC6671, an extortion group reportedly associated with the BlackFile…
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Patching & Updates
5 August 2026
Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison
Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies…
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Patching & Updates
5 August 2026
CISA warns of hackers exploiting Langflow, N-central, Apache Tomcat flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is giving federal agencies three days to mitigate vulnerabilities in IBM Langflow, N-central, and Apache Tomcat, all actively exploited. [...]
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Patching & Updates
4 August 2026
OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests
OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and…
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Patching & Updates
3 August 2026
ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff
A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals. [...]
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Patching & Updates
3 August 2026
Inside the Underground Business of the Android BTMOB RAT malware
Flare researchers analyzed thousands of underground posts to examine how the BTMOB Android malware operation evolved into a fragmented ecosystem of resellers, source-code vendors, custom versions,…
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Patching & Updates
3 August 2026
RightClickTools — If there’s an easier way, I’m gonna find it!
FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen I think my goal in life is to sit back in my easy chair, eat cherry cordials, and do all my computer work with one hand. RightClickTools by our good friend Les…
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Patching & Updates
2 August 2026
OpenAI teases Astra, its next major AI model, after it solves 10 long-standing math problems
OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer…
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Patching & Updates
31 July 2026
Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests
One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security…
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Patching & Updates
30 July 2026
VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes
Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication,…
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Patching & Updates
30 July 2026
Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases
Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser's…
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Patching & Updates
30 July 2026
After the Break-In: What Attackers Do Once They're Already Inside
Attackers rarely stop after gaining initial access. Huntress analyzes a real-world intrusion to show how threat actors establish persistence, disable defenses, and reshape compromised systems, and…
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Patching & Updates
30 July 2026
No bubble in the cloud, yet
In the news: Microsoft reported blowout fiscal Q4 2026 earnings today, and the stock is jumping hard in after-hours trading. Here ae the headlines: Revenue: $90.0 billion, up 18% year-over-year, well…
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Patching & Updates
29 July 2026
Russian hackers exploit Exchange OWA zero-day for long-term mailbox access
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is exploiting an Exchange Outlook Web Access vulnerability in email campaigns to deliver a sophisticated backdoor…
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Patching & Updates
29 July 2026
Anthropic confirms Claude is down worldwide
Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a "529 Overloaded" message, including in Claude and…
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Patching & Updates
29 July 2026
Cisco warns of FMC static credential flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
Cisco is warning that a high-severity Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) static credential vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20316, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks to gain…
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Patching & Updates
29 July 2026
Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare
Health-ISAC, a cybersecurity information-sharing organization for the health sector, is warning healthcare and medical technology organizations of an observed increase in successful attacks by…
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Patching & Updates
29 July 2026
OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach
In a new update, OpenAI says its AI models also used publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts on four third-party services during the recent attack on Hugging Face, expanding the scope of…
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Patching & Updates
28 July 2026
July 27, 2026 Apple Updates
On July 27, 2026, Apple released Updates for macOS Tahoe 26.6, macOS Sequoia 15.7.8, macOS Sonoma 14.8.8, iOS/iPadOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6. HomePod 26.6. Safari 26.6 was also released for…
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Patching & Updates
28 July 2026
MS-DEFCON 4: The AI apocalypse
ISSUE 23.30.1 • 2026-07-28 By Susan Bradley • Comment about this alert Today, I want to tell you that I’m less worried about the side effects of this month’s security updates from Windows, Apple, and…
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Patching & Updates
27 July 2026
Tracking the attacker
ON SECURITY Tracking the attacker By Susan Bradley Recently, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and others released updates illustrating how much we are being impacted by AI. The three major vendors either…
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Patching & Updates
23 July 2026
Australian energy provider Origin says data breach exposes client data
Origin Energy has confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed and subsequently leaked customer data online, exposing sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), among others. [...]
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Patching & Updates
23 July 2026
Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft
CISA is warning that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration email servers by combining phishing…
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Patching & Updates
23 July 2026
Microsoft 365 outage affects Teams, SharePoint and other services
Microsoft is impacted by a massive outage affecting Teams and Microsoft 365 services, primarily affecting users in North America. [...]
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Patching & Updates
23 July 2026
EU fines Google $1 billion for search, app store antitrust violations
The European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday after finding the company had violated the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which ensures fair online…
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Patching & Updates
23 July 2026
New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
A nine-year-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, allows local attackers to overwrite protected files and gain root privileges. [...]
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Patching & Updates
20 July 2026
The patch apocalypse is here
ISSUE 23.29 • 2026-07-20 PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley Well, the benefits of AI are clearly here — at least in terms of bug counts. Microsoft fixed 621 vulnerabilities this time around. However, take…
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Patching & Updates
20 July 2026
Stuff that really bugs me
COMMENTARY By Will Fastie I don’t have a problem embracing change, except for grocery prices. In most cases, my complaints are usually centered on things made worse by changes or on things that…
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