General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Publish Date: 8/14/2026
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"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
Publish Date: 8/14/2026
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US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
Publish Date: 8/14/2026
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Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.
Publish Date: 8/13/2026
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The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
Publish Date: 8/12/2026
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FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
Publish Date: 8/12/2026
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Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
Publish Date: 8/11/2026
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Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
Publish Date: 8/11/2026
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Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Publish Date: 8/5/2026
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Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
Publish Date: 7/31/2026
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Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.
Publish Date: 7/30/2026
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HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
Publish Date: 7/29/2026
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10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
Publish Date: 7/28/2026
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Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.
Publish Date: 7/27/2026
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"Current economic conditions" have shifted TreeSize's business model.
Publish Date: 7/21/2026
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Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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The social-engineering technique has primarily been a tool of financially motivated criminals.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.
Publish Date: 7/16/2026
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The convenience store chain will use StorMagic instead.
Publish Date: 7/15/2026
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HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
Publish Date: 7/15/2026
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